Titoli in Compositori e musicisti

Giuseppe Verdi, the son of an innkeeper from a poor village in the Po Valley, was a "self-made man". At the age of 26 he produced his first opera at La Scala in Milan, at 35 he became a landowner, and at 48 he was a member of parliament. This audio biography describes Verdi's life in the exciting worlds of the stage, agriculture, music and politics.

In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers, including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Dvoxak, and Mahler. He describes all the musical instruments in the orchestra, defines major musical terms, and makes music theory comprehensible for the uninitiated. There are also conversations with important musicians who offer fascinating insights about their art.

John Lennon 1980 traces the powerful, life-affirming story of the former Beatle’s remarkable comeback after five years of self-imposed retirement. Lennon’s final pivotal year would climax in several moments of creative triumph as he rediscovered his artistic self in dramatic fashion. With the bravura release of the Double Fantasy album with wife, Yoko Ono, he was poised and ready for an even brighter future only to be wrenched from the world by an assassin’s bullets.

Elton John is as much loved for his outrageous personality and witty outspokenness as for his music. Such shamelessness and sheer silliness rivals anything uttered by punk rockers, yet it is so typically Elton: honest and intemperate. Tragedy and heartbreak have played a large part in his life. Behind the parties, the hedonism, the lavish stage costumes, and silly glasses lies a more somber story. Between disputes with managers, legal wranglings, public breakups, and divorce, John has been faced with serious health problems and drug addictions.

Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers of all time. His melodies are known to many people who may never have heard his name. They crop up on mobile telephones, alarm clocks and answering machines as often as on records and concert programs. Like his music, the man himself was widely loved, but his inner life was fraught with sufferings, confusions and a deep vein of self-doubt. The drama of his emotional life is vividly reflected in his music, letters and diaries, all of which play a major part in this intimate portrait-in-sound.

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career—now with a new afterword Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) “Brilliant . . . For fans of American music...

2007 Audie Award Winner for Non-Fiction, Abridged Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as...

Cuatro años de carrera alcanzaron para convertir a Jimi Hendrix en el símbolo máximo de la guitarra eléctrica en el rock. Fue tiempo suficiente para que pudiera asombrar con actuaciones inolvidables en los escenarios del Monterrey Pop Festival de 1967 y Woodstock 1969, por ejemplo. Junto a su banda The Jimi Hendrix Experience sacó tres discos ampliamente celebrados, de los que salen temas como "Hey Joe", "Foxy lady", "Voodoo child" y "Purple haze".

"LA VITA OGGI È DURA PER UNA DONNA CHE CONTA." E se lo dice M¥SS KETA, la Diva definitiva della musica italiana, c’è da crederci. Ma niente paura, questo libro è qui per aiutarvi. Tra ricordi di festini memorabili e incontri licenziosi con le massime autorità della politica e del mondo dello spettacolo, la nostra Dea mascherata rivela a tutti noi comuni mortali gli amori (e gli odi) che costellano il suo oscuro passato e i segreti che l’hanno resa celebre, invincibile e immune al tempo che passa.

"Non ci girerò attorno: io ho iniziato a suonare rock con l'idea di rimorchiare. Infatti si cuccava tantissimo. Era come stare in paradiso: attorno a me c'erano soltanto ormoni femminili. Non pensate che abbia combinato chissà che. Parlavamo e basta. Del resto non c'è nulla di più bello che far nascere rapporti. Pensate all'India, dove i religiosi hanno accesso a tutte le caste.

ما بين يديك مسيرة حياة ( المتمرد ) للموسيقار (عمر خيرت) الذى لم يصل الى ما هو علية اليوم من مكانة فى القلوب وفى عالم الموسيقي بيسر .. ولكنها رحلت حياة كان فيها الكثير من الصعاب والتحديات التى كان من الممكن ان تحيد ية عن ذلك العالم الذى امتعنا من خلالة .. ولكنها ارداة الله ومثابرة الفنان بداخلة ..

MercyMe was just a small worship band from Texas until January 2002, when Bart Millard’s song “I Can Only Imagine” swept the airwaves. Suddenly Bart, his bandmates, and their families were riding a wave of success beyond their wildest dreams. Then everything changed again. Bart and Shannon lost Shannon’s brother to a tragic accident. Their second child was born prematurely. Their oldest child was diagnosed with diabetes. Their marriage struggled as Bart spent more and more time on the road, feeling the weight of the band’s success on his shoulders.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right...

Rea Garvey – Musiker, Songwriter, Sohn, Suchender – erzählt die bewegende Geschichte seiner Herkunft: Irland. Ein Land, in dem Regen und Licht, Glaube und Zweifel, Freiheit und Tradition untrennbar verwoben sind. Vom wilden Lachen in einem überfüllten Bungalow voller Geschwister bis zu nächtlichen Techno-Ekstasen in Belfast, von heimlichen Rebellionen gegen den autoritären Vater bis zu Momenten reiner Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben – Rea öffnet die Türen zu Erinnerungen, die ihn geformt haben.

Dorothy Lamour, born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton (December 10, 1914 - September 22, 1996) was an American actress and big band singer, best remembered for having appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Her appearance as Ulah in The Jungle Princess (1936) brought her fame and marked the beginning of her image as the "Sarong Queen." For her contribution to the radio and motion picture industry, Lamour has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The following recordings are from TV appearances in 1972 and 1981.

Parov Stelar erfand ein eigenes Musikgenre, spielte in den größten Stadien und Festivals Europas und der USA vor zig Millionen Menschen und begeistert Fans auf der ganzen Welt. Doch wer steckt hinter dem Phänomen? Und wie sieht das Leben eines internationalen Musikstars wirklich aus? Welchen Preis zahlen Menschen für Ruhm und Erfolg? Zum ersten Mal berichtet Parov Stelar von seinem Trip in die persönliche und musikalische Unterwelt. Von Angst und Zweifeln, Triumph und Taumel, von Exzess und Wahnsinn.

De Toulon à Paris, des salons de coiffure aux plateaux de télévision, Sofia Morgavi nous livre le récit touchant et inspirant d'une vie consacrée à la voix. À travers 20 leçons pratiques nées de ses rencontres les plus marquantes, Sofia crée un genre inédit : chaque chapitre autobiographique dévoile une leçon de chant que la vie lui a enseignée.

'Hamlet realized that he was living in his dreams. Indeed, he had accidentally stepped into the world's greatest profession.' Piyush Mishra's life has never followed a script. From a turbulent childhood in Gwalior to his years of artistic rebellion at the National School of Drama, and his...

In Never Mind the Happy, musical dynamo Marc Shaiman looks back on five decades of Broadway triumphs, Hollywood hijinks, and unforgettable collaborations. Along the way, he charts the personal highs and heartbreaks that have shaped him—spending his teenage years in community theater, starting a decades-long collaboration with Bette Midler in the ’70s, surviving the AIDS crisis of the ’80s, his award-winning film music career in the Hollywood of the ’90s, right up to the peaks (and valleys) of creating Broadway musicals from 2000 on.

'I was six when my father died so my mother has been everything to me. Wherever I go I tell the world about my wonderful mother. I'm a singer today because of her encouragement. She has been the biggest influence in my life' - Daniel O'Donnell Irish singing star Daniel O'Donnell's mother, Julia...