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Elgar's Third Symphony
Elgar's Third Symphony has long been one of the great unknowns of twentieth-century music. Commissioned in 1932 by the BBC, it appeared fragmentary and disorganized when Elgar died in 1934. A few months before his death, he asked for his sketches to be destroyed, saying that 'No one must tinker with it'. Yet he continued to talk about the Symphony, even writing out passages that seem almost to …
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Journeying BoyThe Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938
Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. Journeying Boy is a selection of his diaries that offer the reader an unseen insight into this complex man. Encompassing the years 1928-1938, they explore some key periods of Britten's life - his early compositions, his educa…
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Britten's Children
Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with t…
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Beyond East and WestMemoirs, Portraits and Essays
In our time, Bernard Leach has done for pottery what Henry Moore has done for scuplture. This... infinitely rewarding book is an account of his pilgrimage through life.' Times Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America, both as an artist-craftsman and as a thinker. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient in the making of pots - and in ev…
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The Childhood of Edward Thomas
Killed at Arras in 1917, Edward Thomas left behind him a short, vivid history of his own early life, covering the period from his birth to his entry into St Paul's. Though a fragment, in many senses it is far more: in the words of its author 'no less than an autobiography . . . an attempt to put down on paper what [this author] sees when he thinks of himself from 1878 to about 1895'. The Child…
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Dislessico famigliareCronache (s)connesse di una famiglia straordinariamente …
Giampaolo era considerato uno studente pigro, svogliato, addirittura poco dotato, ma la verità era un'altra: il suo cervello, semplicemente, funzionava in modo diverso. All'epoca non si parlava di dislessia e disturbi dell'apprendimento, mentre oggi questi temi sono all'ordine del giorno. Eppure, quanto ne sappiamo davvero sull'argomento? È quello che si è chiesta Gloria nel momento in cui h…
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Chris Claremont
Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel Comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular comics for over a decade and, eventually, a multibillion-dollar film franchise. While Claremont's influence on popular culture is becoming more widely…
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Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth
Bernard Palissy, a French Renaissance artisan philosopher, saw intelligence and consciousness across all forms of life – soils, plants, animals – rejecting human superiority long before modern environmentalism. Known for crafting ceramic ware, fountains and grottos for royal patrons, Palissy used his knowledge of earth and agriculture to develop a unique, sometimes controversial philosophy …
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon
When Jean-Michel Basquiat died in 1988 at the age of twenty-seven, major critics called his work a flash in the pan and the meteoric rise in the prices of his paintings started to fall back. Almost thirty years later Basquiat joined Picasso, Modigliani and Munch when one of his paintings sold for over {dollar}100 million. Nearly four decades after his untimely death, he remains one of the most …
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Israel im KriegEin Tagebuch
Im Herbst 2023 erschien unter dem Titel "Blick in den Abgrund" das Tagebuch Saul Friedländers über den Kampf in Israel um die Zukunft seiner Demokratie. Es fand große Beachtung und erhielt einen Platz auf der Liste der besten Sachbücher. Friedländer, inzwischen 91 Jahre alt, hatte sein Tagebuch schon zur Seite gelegt. Doch dann kam der 7. Oktober. Der Angriff der Hamas auf Israel, bei dem …
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