Enesco, Then and Now

Enesco, Then and Now

Author: Kathleen Deel

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 2001-08-30

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780764314537

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Enesco*r is one of the oldest importing companies in the United States, with a history dating back to the late 1800s. This book features a huge array of Enesco's gift, collectible, and decorative items, including figurines, planters, kitchenware, bells, banks, and head vases -- all shown with current market values. Included are early lines like Beaver Dam*r, Dearie is Weary*r, and Golden Girls*r, plus contemporary favorites like Country Cousins*r, Human Beans*r, and Precious Moments*r. Over 1,500 items illustrated.


Menuhin

Menuhin

Author: Sir Humphrey Burton

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 0571337694

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Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens in the decades after the death of a popular performing artist. Far from it: the centenary of his birth, April 22, 1916, is being marked by celebrations around the world.Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York of Russian Jewish immigrants. Prodigiously gifted, the 'Miracle Boy' gave his first solo recital aged eight and within five years was world-famous. Menuhin was a visionary individualist, who didn't mind shocking the establishment. His post-war support for the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, and his determination to build bridges with the defeated German nation, brought him into sharp conflict with the Jewish establishment and DPs in Berlin. Later he spoke out against apartheid in South Africa and denounced the Soviet Union's oppressive policy towards writers and dissidents.Drawing on contemporary sources, unpublished family correspondence and radio interviews, Burton creates a compelling portrait of an extraordinary human being - one of the best-loved classical musicians of the twentieth century.


Enesco

Enesco

Author: Boris I︠A︡kovlevich Kotli︠a︡rov

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This is a book about the great composer, violin virtuoso, piano virtuoso, and conductor (one of the most versatile musicians of our time), who is considered the father of Romanian nationalism in high-art music. Even after his death, young Romanian composers have turned to his scores in order to better understand the Romanian soul. In fact, his countrymen hold his memory in such regard that his hometown has been renamed after him. Nevertheless, his compositional style was cosmopolitan, with a distinctly Parisian flavor. (Indeed, we know his name in the spelling he adopted while living in France.) His most ambitious work was his four-act opera Oedipe, based on the Sophocles tragedy, but ending - unlike the original - on a note of triumph. This opera is extensively analyzed by the author, who has included in the text more than 80 musical examples from Enesco's works, making this book a must for music lovers who wish to become better acquainted with one of the masters of the twentieth century.


After Some Tomorrow

After Some Tomorrow

Author: Mack Reynolds

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0575102853

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POWER! Perhaps the rarest gift in the world is that ability to read the future, to know what will happen to a person, a group, even a country, and when it will happen! EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION The year is some indeterminate time in the future; Mickey Grant and Anna Enesco are involved in special studies for people who have shown extraordinary ESP talent. Their progress is as frightening as it is incredible. But when our government sends them on missions that become increasingly dangerous and difficult, are their lives the price of their special pre-knowledge?


Nurtured by Love

Nurtured by Love

Author: Dr. Shinichi Suzuki

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781457403477

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This book is the cornerstone upon which to build any Suzuki-oriented library. In it the author presents the philosophy and principles of Suzuki's teaching methods. Through the examples from his own life and teaching, Suzuki establishes his case for early childhood education and the high potential of every human being, not just those seemingly gifted.