Showing results for "Music" in Literature & Fiction

’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and...

When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich - lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving works of music.

"This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative arts to heal our wounds, sharpen our minds, enliven our bodies, and restore our broken connections.” —Bessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score...

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li...

Philipp von Steinaecker und Thomas von Steinaecker sind Cousins, der eine Musiker, der andere Schriftsteller, und beide diskutieren seit ihrer Kindheit manchmal auch sehr kontrovers über Werke aus Literatur und Musik, die sie begeistern und beschäftigen. In jeder Folge des Podcasts „einfach kompliziert!“ stellen sie ein Werk vor, das landläufig als schwierig gilt, ihnen aber besonders am Herzen liegt – oder zumindest einem von ihnen. Zu Lang? Zu trocken? Zu kompliziert? Mitnichten: alles wird einfach, wenn man dafür brennt!

A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker. (Summary by Julie VW)

From the beloved host and creator of NPR s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy...

Volume 2 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the Classical and Romantic periods, encompassing: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, opera in Italy and France, Romanticism, song literature, pianoforte and chamber music, orchestral literature, romantic opera, choral song, Wagner and Wagnerism, Brahms, Franck, Verdi and other contemporaries. - Summary by Jake Malizia

The State of the Union address is a speech or report presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda (for which he needs the cooperation of Congress) and national priorities. This album contains recordings of addresses from Jimmy Carter. - Summary by KevinS

Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire (French: Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde) is an imaginary philosophical conversation written by Denis Diderot, probably between 1761 and 1772. It was first published in 1805 in German translation by Goethe, but the French manuscript used has subsequently disappeared. The German version was translated back into French by de Saur and Saint-Geniès and published in 1821. The first published version based on French manuscript appeared in 1823 in the Brière edition of Diderot's works. Modern editions are based on the complete manuscript in Diderot’s ...

Bem-vindos ao Departamento de Estudos Pimba.Aqui pegamos nas músicas que toda a gente canta e ninguém estuda - as do arraial, do copo-de-água, da viagem de carrinha - e tratamo-las exatamente como trataríamos um soneto de Camões: com lupa, com bibliografia imaginária e com uma seriedade que beira o ridículo.A premissa é simples e provocadora: e se uma música aparentemente simples escondesse uma reflexão profunda sobre quem nós somos?Em cada episódio transformamos um refrão numa tese, cruzando humor inteligente, análise cultural e reflexão social, para responder sempre à mesma ...

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda (for which he needs the cooperation of Congress) and national priorities. This album contains recordings of addresses from Theodore Roosevelt. - Summary by Wikipedia

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda (for which he needs the cooperation of Congress) and national priorities. This album contains recordings of addresses from Lyndon B. Johnson. - Summary by KevinS

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda (for which he needs the cooperation of Congress) and national priorities. This album contains recordings of addresses from Grover Cleveland. - Summary by Wikipedia

Hear what The New York Times calls "the future of musicals"... 36 Questions, a three-part podcast musical starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton. 36 Questions is produced by Two-Up, the producers of Limetown and The Wilderness. Thank you for listening.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Kirkus Reviews “Earnest and engaging.” —The New Yorker A personal and analytical essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal and analytical look at his home city of Baltimore, music from throughout the global Black...

For almost decades I hosted and produced a two-hour weekly world music show, for an NPR member station in Richmond Virginia and throughout the world online. And in that time, I had the opportunity to interview some amazing musicians, film makers, authors and more.So instead of letting those interviews die in the dustbin of audio history, I’ve decided to dig them up, dust them off and breathe new life into them here, on The World Music Show — Interviews from the archives — with Ian Stewart.These interviews are for the true music nerds who want to find out more about the artists they ...

A collection of essays on things musical by Vernon Blackburn, including composers, music in different time periods, and modern music. (Summary by Mozartjr)

Brief sketches of the lives and music of 12 well-known musicians. - Summary by KevinS

2025 ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS AWARDS CERTIFICATE OF MERIT * AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE EARPHONES AWARD The audiobook edition of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History brings listeners closer than ever to their creative heroes. Featuring rare interview excerpts with Nina Simone...