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Amore
The Story of Italian American Song

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Amore is Mark Rotella’s celebration of the “Italian decade”—the years after the war and before the Beatles when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and...
  
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The Essential Canon of Classical Music

North Point Press
The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive...
  
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Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker
An Arlene Croce Reader

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“Cool, fully engaged, brilliant and tough.” —Rick Whitaker, The Washington Post Book World Theoretically, I am ready to go to...
  
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Postmodern Pooh

North Point Press
A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh...
  
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Positively 4th Street
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina

North Point Press
When twenty-five-year-old Bob Dylan wrecked his motorcycle near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was already recognized as a genius, a...
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Indivisible by Four
A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Guarneri Quartet is fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Here is its story from the inside--a story filled with drama, humor,...
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Unexpurgated Edition

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The astonishing, legendary diaries of the great dancer, complete and unexpurgated In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the...
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Family Man

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up....
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Last Night's Fun
A Book About Irish Traditional Music

North Point Press
Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of...
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Piano Pieces

North Point Press
Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man's virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion...

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Lush Life
A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

North Point Press
Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator...