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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tom Barton
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Emilio Audissino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Motion picture music
ISBN : 0299332349
Author : William Starling
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849544788
Strings Attached is the much anticipated authorised biography of John Williams, one of the most accomplished and celebrated musicians of his generation. From his childhood in Australia to his stellar career in London and around the world, John Williams has lived an extraordinary life. Master of the classical repertoire, he took the guitar to a wider audience with the band SKY and by his championing of the music of South America and Africa. William Starling came to know John Williams through their mutual friend, jazz guitarist John Etheridge. As their friendship developed, he put it to the maestro that it was time for a biography. To his lasting amazement, the famously private Williams agreed. Strings Attached is the product of extensive research and uniquely privileged access to John Williams, his family, friends and musical associates. It is the first telling of the fascinating life and career of a world-renowned musician and, equally, the story of a man and the making of his identity.
Author : Emilio Audissino
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780299297336
John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Award nominations as of 2014, he is the second-most Oscar-nominated person after Walt Disney. Yet despite such critical acclaim and prestige, this is the first book in English on Williams’s work and career. Combining accessible writing with thorough scholarship, and rigorous historical accounts with insightful readings, John Williams’s Film Music explores why Williams is so important to the history of film music. Beginning with an overview of music from Hollywood’s Golden Age (1933–58), Emilio Audissino traces the turning points of Williams’s career and articulates how he revived the classical Hollywood musical style. This book charts each landmark of this musical restoration, with special attention to the scores for Jaws and Star Wars, Williams’s work as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and a full film/music analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The result is a precise, enlightening definition of Williams’s “neoclassicism” and a grounded demonstration of his lasting importance, for both his compositions and his historical role in restoring part of the Hollywood tradition. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Author : Emilio Audissino
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Composers
ISBN : 2503580343
An interdisciplinary exploration of the many facets of the composer John Williams's output, aimed at showing the range of his production (not merely focussing on film music) and at analyzing the depth of his dramaturgic and compositional skills with selected case studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9782296807808
Author : Kenneth Silverman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810128309
A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents—musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist—John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. Silverman begins with Cage’s childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage continued his studies in the United States with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg, and he soon began the experiments with sound and percussion instruments that would develop into his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. Cage’s unorthodox methods still influence artists in a wide range of genres and media. Silverman concurrently follows Cage’s rich personal life, from his early marriage to his lifelong personal and professional partnership with choreographer Merce Cunningham, as well as his friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers. Drawing on interviews with Cage’s contemporaries and friends and on the enormous archive of his letters and writings, and including photographs, facsimiles of musical scores, and Web links to illustrative sections of his compositions, Silverman gives us a biography of major significance: a revelatory portrait of one of the most important cultural figures of the twentieth century. !--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--
Author : Alessandro De Rosa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190681036
Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film. Often considered the world's greatest living film composer, and most widely known for his innovative scores to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the other Sergio Leone's movies, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso and more recently, The Hateful Eight, Morricone has spent the past 60 years reinventing the sound of cinema. In Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words, composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa present a years-long discussion of life, music, and the marvelous and unpredictable ways that the two come into contact with and influence each other. The result is what Morricone himself defines: "beyond a shadow of a doubt the best book ever written about me, the most authentic, the most detailed and well curated. The truest." Opening for the first time the door of his creative laboratory, Morricone offers an exhaustive and rich account of his life, from his early years of study to genre-defining collaborations with the most important Italian and international directors, including Leone, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Argento, Tornatore, Malick, Carpenter, Stone, Nichols, De Palma, Beatty, Levinson, Almodóvar, Polanski and Tarantino. In the process, Morricone unveils the curious relationship that links music and images in cinema, as well as the creative urgency at the foundation of his experimentations with "absolute music". Throughout these conversations with De Rosa, Morricone dispenses invaluable insights not only on composing but also on the broader process of adaptation and what it means to be human. As he reminds us, "Coming into contact with memories doesn't only entail the melancholy of something that slips away with time, but also looking forward, understanding who I am now. And who knows what else may still happen."
Author : Deanna Witkowski
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814664018
In Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”
Author : Steven C. Smith
Publisher : Cultural Biographies
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190623272
In this biography the author interweaves the dramatic incidents of Steiner's personal life with an accessible exploration of his composing methods and experiences
Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477320105
This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.
Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107139251
Peter Williams revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music, revealing the development of the composer's interests and priorities.
Author : Irwin Bazelon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:652369037
Author : John L. Williams
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781623652593
From "Hot from Harlem" to "Goldfinger," the story of how a two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff became an immortal icon: In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called "Hot from Harlem." Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later, she was one of the biggest stars in the world. She had sold more records than any other British singer of the day, and was poised to conquer America. Her latest hit, "Goldfinger," was the theme tune to the year's blockbuster film. No longer the two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff, she was by now an international sex siren, as glamorous and unreal as Bond himself. Miss Shirley Bassey explores this remarkable transformation, both of an individual and of the British society and British psyche that made it possible. From the vibrant, multicultural oasis of Tiger Bay in the Cardiff docklands through the club-lands of Soho and Las Vegas to New York's Carnegie Hall, it is a journey from mere mortal to international icon. Along the way she would encounter homosexual husbands, predatory managers, newspaper scandals, and a range of friends and acquaintances from Sammy Davis Jr. to Reggie Kray. John L. Williams draws on original research and interviews to provide a portrait of a young woman on the cusp of stardom, whose rise to fame was in many ways symbolic of a changing world. Brilliantly written non-fiction in the style of David Peace's The Damned Utd or Nick Tosches' Dino, this is the story of a woman who set out to be extraordinary and--against all the odds--succeeded.
Author : James Duff Brown,Stephen Samuel Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015018119019