Ballad of Dreams
Ballad of Dreams

Author: Allyson Hernandez

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781637306420

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"It's never too late to make a new dream, It's never too late to reach for the stars. It's never too late when the fear won't subside. It's never too late, to try." Audrey McKenna is a vibrant grandmother and mother of thirteen. When her granddaughter pursues a career onstage, Audrey is confronted with the unfulfilled dreams of her youth to perform at Carnegie Hall. With the help of her best friend Rose, they journey to the New York Theater scene of their past, exploring choices, sacrifices and experiences that shaped them. While their paths are drastically different, the one constant throughout is their friendship. Through trials and triumphs, love and loss, Rose and Audrey redefine their identities as independent women in a time where society tried to define that for them. Inspired by a true story, Ballad of Dreams sings of the power of friendship and dances through different eras of society from the 1930s to early 2000s. It combines the richness of storytelling and flare of musical theater by seamlessly weaving musical lyrics with the narrative. Ballad of Dreams by Allyson Hernandez inspires us to fill our own cups by chasing after our dreams.

The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture

Author: Randy Pausch

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Opening Carnegie Hall
Opening Carnegie Hall

Author: Carol J. Binkowski

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0786498722

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Carnegie Hall is recognized worldwide, associated with the heights of artistic achievement and a multitude of famous performers. Yet its beginnings are not so well known. In 1887, a chance encounter on a steamship bound for Europe brought young conductor Walter Damrosch together with millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his new wife, Louise. Their subsequent friendship led to the building of this groundbreaking concert space. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the conception and building of Carnegie Hall, which culminated in a five-day opening festival in May 1891, featuring spectacular music, a host of performers and Tchaikovsky as a special guest conductor.

The Greatest Song of All
The Greatest Song of All

Author: Megan Hoyt

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Published: 2022-06-21

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780063045279

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From the acclaimed author of Bartali's Bicycle comes the inspiring story of violin virtuoso Isaac Stern and his mission to save the beloved Carnegie Hall from demolition. When Carnegie Hall first opened its doors in 1891, no one could have predicted its incredible success. With talented artists like Duke Ellington and Albert Einstein gracing its stage, the hall quickly became a place where all people--no matter their skin color, religion, or social status--could come together under one roof to be entertained. People like Isaac Stern. The son of Jewish immigrants who fled war-torn Ukraine for America to escape the Holocaust, Isaac was a talented violinist whose dream of one day performing on Carnegie Hall's legendary stage came true, many times over. So when a real estate tycoon sets out to demolish Carnegie Hall, Isaac knew something had to be done to preserve decades of hopes, dreams, and inclusivity. Author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Katie Hickey tell the true story of one man's fight to save a historical landmark whose timeless symbol of equality will forever stand the test of time.

An Inglish Dream: Andrew Carnegie's Seven-Million-Dollar Spelling Mistake and Spelling Reform in the Techno-Age
An Inglish Dream: Andrew Carnegie's Seven-Million-Dollar Spelling Mistake and Spelling Reform in the Techno-Age

Author: Dr. David Clyde Walters

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1387602225

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This book normally sells for 7 million dollars, but you can read a free copy at https: //www.wattpad.com/story/145101227 Inglish Dreams is a unique account of historical fact mixed with modern fiction, Andrew Carnegie, Martin Luther King, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Henry the Fifth, Joan of Arc and others appear in dreams to a modern English teacher and relaunch an unstoppable spelling reform movement that is spreading thru the world. Fact: Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world, gave more than seven million dollars for spelling reform in the 1900`s. Shaw, Twain, Webster, and others also supported the efforts. These reformers were ahead of their time, but their reasons for advocating spelling reform are more compelling and more attainable today. The author, Dr. David Clyde Walters invites readers to learn more and to join The English Spelling Society http: //www.spellingsociety.org/ or the American Literacy Council http: //www.americanliteracy.c

Inside the Dream Palace
Inside the Dream Palace

Author: Sherill Tippins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 1471135284

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The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House,delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Sam Shepard, Sid Vicious, and Dee Dee Ramone. Now as legendary as the artists it has housed and the countless creative collaborations it has sparked, the Chelsea has always stood as a mystery as well: why and how did this hotel become the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the known world? Inside the Dream Palaceis the intimate and definitive story.

Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

Author: Catherine Tackley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-10-19

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0199911037

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On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert on LP. Now, in Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, jazz scholar and musician Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Combining rigorous documentary and archival research with close analysis of the recording, Tackley strips back the accumulated layers of interpretation and meaning to assess the performance in its original context, and explore what the material has come to represent in its recorded form. Taking a complete view of the concert, she examines the rich cultural setting in which it took place, and analyzes the compositions, arrangements and performances themselves, before discussing the immediate reception, and lasting legacy and impact of this storied event and album. As the definitive study of one of the most important recordings of the twentieth-century, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is a must-read for all serious jazz fans, musicians and scholars.

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams

Author: Andrew S. Berish

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-04-15

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0226044947

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Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.

Deep in a Dream
Deep in a Dream

Author: James Gavin

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1569769036

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This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeard on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter's dark journey.