The Piano Woman

Author : Robin Meloy Goldsby
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879308827
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano Girl written by Robin Meloy Goldsby and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business perspective of a world-traveling lounge musician.

Author : Rozzi Bazzani
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925984893
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piano Woman written by Rozzi Bazzani and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman goes missing… On the threshold of World War II, a young woman from a titled family in the south of England disappears, seemingly without trace. An unexpected inheritance… In 2016 on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, Maddison Browne is a romantic fiction writer who is lucked out in love and scared that her best days as an author are over. When she learns that she is to inherit an antique piano from a woman she’s never heard of, she wonders why and is driven to find out. A family secret… In England, Maddison unearths a century-old secret that leads her to a family she never knew she had and an entanglement in affairs of state. And she meets someone who might turn her life around. The Piano Woman highlights the fragility of family, the price of love, and the importance of traditions that can sometimes save us from ourselves. ‘A real page turner in terms of story and plot. The gradual unravelling of ancestral secrets across four generations is skilfully executed.’ – Chandani Lokuge, author of My Van Gogh ‘As a fan of dual-timeline novels, this one hit the right notes. There is mystery and some romance and a well written, compelling tale of families, tradition, and personal growth. Highly recommended.’ – Phillipa Nefri Clark, author of The Station Master’s Cottage ‘The structure of the book was very well executed, maintaining the suspense throughout. I was hooked until the end.’ – Goodreads ‘The Piano Woman has all the elements of a great contemporary fiction read, laced with detailed historical links.’ – HappyValley_Reads

Author : Arthur Loesser
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486265439
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men, Women, and Pianos written by Arthur Loesser and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned concert pianist traces the instrument's design, manufacture, and music in a delightful "piano's eye-view" of the social history of Western Europe and the United States from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Author : Adrienne Trier-Bieniek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810885514
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman written by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos explores the many-layered relationships female fans build with feminist musicians in general and with Tori Amos, in particular. Using original interview research with more than forty fans of Tori Amos, multiple observer-participant experiences at Amos’s concerts, and critical content analysis of Amos’s lyrics and larger body of work, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek utilizes a combination of gender, emotions, music, and activism to unravel the typecasts plaguing female fans. Trier-Bieniek aggressively challenges the popular culture stereotypes that have painted all female fans as screaming, crying teenage girls who are unable to control themselves when a favorite (generally male) performer occupies the stage. In stunning contrast, admirers of Tori Amos comprise a more introspective category of fan. Sing Us a Son, Piano Woman examines the wide range of stories from these listeners, exploring how Amos’s female fans are unique because Amos places the experiences of women at the center of her music. Tori Amos’s fan base is considered devoted because of the deeply emotional, often healing, connection they have to her music, an aspect that has been overlooked, particularly in sociological and cultural research on gender, emotions and music. Tori Amos’s female fans as a social phenomenon are vital for understanding the multi-layered relationships women can have with female singer/songwriters. At a time when superficial women dominate public media presentations, from the Kardashians to the “Real Housewives,” the relationship between Tori Amos and her fans illustrates the continuous search by women for female performers who challenge patriarchal standards in popular culture. Trier-Bieniek’s research serves as a springboard for further study of women in pop culture whose purpose is empower and provoke their fans, as well as change society.

Author : Michelle Marie McNiff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781718051454
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piano Lady written by Michelle Marie McNiff and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French woman cloaked in mystery dazzles her audience at Hotel Paris Rivoli, every Saturday night. There, she is simply known as "The Piano Lady", a former concert pianist and piano prodigy. Playing on the Steinway grand, her memories come alive in her music set, opening a time capsule of her life, before and after the war. She remembers the time she played at the Conservatory and later collaborating with Edith Piaf and Yves Montand. On the eve of the Liberation of Paris, she begs her lover not to leave her. Left alone to wrestle a grave sin, she finds a new calling, repenting her past life. Years later, a chance meeting outside the hotel unlocks her past, at the park square where she lost her great love in a historic, medieval neighborhood in the heart of the City of Light.

Author : Nancy Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1616779217
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2 - Timeless Hits and Popular Favorites written by Nancy Faber and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Faber Piano Adventures ). The appeal of popular music spans generations and genres. In this collection of 27 hits, enjoy folk tunes like "Ashokan Farewell" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," movie themes from James Bond and Batman , Broadway numbers from Evita and A Little Night Music , and chart-toppers performed by Michael Jackson, Adele, Billy Joel, and more. Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2 provides this variety, yet with accessible arrangements for the progressing pianist. Students may advance through the book alongside method studies, or jump to all their favorites. Optional chord symbols above the staff guide understanding and personal expression.

Author : Robin Meloy Goldsby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493056204
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano Girl Playbook written by Robin Meloy Goldsby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pianist in lounges and lobbies around the world, Robin Meloy Goldsby tells her warm-hearted stories by linking people she has met with places she has played. Along the way, she connects the humanity of her audiences—princes and paupers, dreamers and doers, moguls, mobsters, wanna-bes, and has-beens—with the quiet soundtrack of her peripatetic, melodic life. Goldsby's autobiographical stories and essays deliver insights into the art and craft of piano playing, the merits of live music, and how the right song at the right moment can add color and depth to a drab, one dimensional world. Music, it turns out, connects us in unpredictable ways.

Author : Ann Ingalls
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618959742
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Piano Girl written by Ann Ingalls and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of the childhood of jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the early twentieth century.

Author : Susan Engle
Publisher : Change Maker
ISBN 13 : 9781618511942
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hazel Scott written by Susan Engle and published by Change Maker. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazel Scott was a champion for civil and women's rights. Born in Trinidad in 1920, she moved with her family to the United States in 1924. She was a musical wonder-- studying and performing on the piano from the time she was a child. She became an accomplished singer as well, and appeared in Broadway musicals, films, and recorded her own albums. She also made headlines by standing up for the rights of women and African Americans, and she refused to play for segregated audiences. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the March on Washington, Hazel led a march in Paris, where she was living, in front of the American Embassy. She learned about the Bahá'í Faith from Dizzy Gillespie and became a Bahá'í on December 1, 1968. She passed away in 1981. We invite you to learn more about this "Change Maker" and the enduring impact she had on race relations through her performing arts.

Author : Elizabeth Smither
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995132986
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piano Girls written by Elizabeth Smither and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three musical sisters honour their mother with a piano recital every year in her memory. They compete with one another, practising in secret to see who can be the best. In other stories, music, food, and restaurants are themes. There is a woman who fends off a seducer by cooking up a storm; Fire Lady prepares flambe dishes in a restaurant. There is a cat called Min; an agonising breakup in a luxury hotel; a young woman obsessed with her breasts. The stories cover a wide range from schooldays and ballet lessons ('The Soul of Kate') to advanced age ('Scottie') where an elderly woman is the pet of a group of rakish young men. The style is engaging, humorous, but invariably compassionate. Introducing Elizabeth Smither as a fellow of The Academy of New Zealand Literature Louise O'Brien writes: 'I read Elizabeth Smither for the optimistic and freeing possibilities in her resistance to closure or conclusion, in character, narrative and, also, in life more broadly. Her stories acknowledge the uncontrollable messiness of life, the ragged edges of a self, the chaos of experience, the many aspects of an individual, and finds melody in the discord. Using multiple narrative perspectives and voices, moving between multiple places and times, her novels and stories accumulate the facets of a life and native without ever suggesting that these can be exhausted.'