Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize Sticky Fingers is the story of how one man's ego and ambition captured the 1960s youth culture of rock and roll and turned it into a hothouse of fame, power, politics, and riches that would last for fifty years. Drawn from dozens of hours of interviews with Jann Wenner, who granted Joe Hagan exclusive access to his vast personal archive, this biography reveals how Wenner manufactured an ...
Standing at the crossroads – the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting – Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer. This momentous time in his life, and being at the most famous junction in music history, led Radcliffe to think about the pivotal tracks in music and ho ...
Die A tot Z van klassieke musiek, 'n Gids met beknopte biografiee van belangrike komponiste en besprekings van hul belangrikste werk. Dit bevat ook die verhale van bekende operas en ballette en besprekings van simfoniee. Kyk, Franz Liszt word dikwels onderskat: ‘n vertonerige virtuoos wat oppervlakkige musiek geskryf het bloot om sy pianistiese vernuf ten toon te stel. Koos Human se so in sy Die A tot Z van klassieke musiek. ...
First published in 1920, this book contains fantastic guide to teaching piano playing for music teachers, written by Tobias Matthay. Tobias Augustus Matthay (1858 – 1945) was an English pianist, composer, and teacher. He was taught composition while at the Royal Academy of Music by Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Sterndale Bennett, and he was instructed in the piano by William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. Contents include: “Method in its Good a ...
