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Author: Epic Love Books
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781724038647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful Auguste Renoir vintage painting on a notebook that features his artwork Two Girls at the Piano. This pretty pastel art journal features impressionist work from the 1800s. The lovely pink back and side cover complete an elegant girl's journal or diary. 6 x 9 book, 100 lined pages.
Author: Elizabeth Smither
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780995132986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree 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.'
Author: Robin Meloy Goldsby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2006-05
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780879308827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business perspective of a world-traveling lounge musician.
Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1998-04-17
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0811221040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Author: Virginia Lloyd
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2018-03-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1760635863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a career as a pianist. When that didn't happen, she spent a long time wondering about those years of study: had they been wasted? What was their purpose? This intriguing memoir explores those questions and investigates the mystery of the author's very musical and deeply unhappy grandmother Alice, and how their lives--both at and away from the piano--intersected and diverged. Girls at the Piano also explores the changing relationship between women and the piano over the course of the instrument's history, taking us from the salons of 18th-century Europe to an amateur jazz workshop in Manhattan in the early 21st century. Funny, tender and fascinating, Girls at the Piano is an elegant and multi-layered meditation on identity, ambition and doubt, and on how learning the piano had a profound effect on two women worlds and generations apart. It is essential reading for music lovers everywhere, and for anyone who has undertaken their own voyage around a piano.
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1470625059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Museum Masterpieces, Book 2, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *Car and Hunting Fox (Umberto Boccioni) *La charmeuse de serpents (The Snake Charmer) (Henri Rousseau) *Cirque (Circus) (Georges Seurat) *The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Johannes Vermeer) *Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) *Noah's Ark: Genesis (Charles McGee) *Nocturne in Black and Gold---The Falling Rocket (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) *Primavera (Sandro Botticelli) *Sunrise on the Matterhorn (Albert Bierstadt) *Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze)
Author: Arthur Loesser
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 0486171612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-02-24
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1493038109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.
Author: Margaret Vandercook
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-10-05
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'The Ranch Girls at Home Again' by Margaret Vandercook, readers are transported back to the early 20th century to follow the adventures of a group of young ranch girls as they navigate life on the prairie. The book is a delightful blend of adventure, friendship, and coming-of-age themes, presented in Vandercook's engaging and descriptive writing style that vividly captures the essence of the American West during this time period. The narrative is rich in detail, offering a genuine glimpse into the daily struggles and triumphs of these young girls as they face various challenges and learn valuable life lessons along the way. Margaret Vandercook, known for her captivating storytelling and insightful character development, drew inspiration from her own experiences living in rural America to craft 'The Ranch Girls at Home Again'. Her deep connection to the land and people of the West shines through in her writing, immersing readers in a world filled with authenticity and heart. Vandercook's passion for storytelling and commitment to portraying strong, relatable female characters make this book a standout in the genre. I highly recommend 'The Ranch Girls at Home Again' to readers who enjoy historical fiction, coming-of-age stories, and strong female protagonists. Vandercook's expertly crafted narrative will captivate and inspire readers of all ages, offering a memorable literary journey through the untamed landscapes of the American West.
