A Ship Without A Sail

Author : Gary Marmorstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416594260

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A Ship Without A Sail by Gary Marmorstein Pdf

Lorenz Hart, together with Richard Rodgers, created some of the most beautiful and witty songs ever written. Here is the story of the strikingly unromantic life of this songwriting genius. His lyrics spin with brilliance and sophistication, yet at their core is an unmistakable wistfulness. Rodgers and Hart, who wrote approximately thirty Broadway musicals and dozens of songs for Hollywood films, were an odd couple. Rodgers was precise, punctual, heterosexual, handsome, and eager to be accepted by society. Hart was barely five feet tall, alcoholic, homosexual, and more comfortable in a bar or restaurant than anywhere else. His lyrics are all the more remarkable considering that he never sustained a romantic relationship, living his entire life with his mother, who died only months before his own death at 48. Biographer Marmorstein superbly portrays the life of this exuberant yet troubled artist.--From publisher description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780300136029

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The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs by Anonim Pdf

Collects more than 1,400 English-language proverbs that arose in the 20th and 21st centuries, organized alphabetically by key words and including information on date of origin, history and meaning.

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307949332

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Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879721294

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The Alabama Folk Lyric by Ray Broadus Browne Pdf

Alabamians have always been a singing people. The settlers who moved into the various sections of the state brought with them songs which reflected their national origins and geographical backgrounds, and as they spread into the hills and over the lowlands they created new songs out of the conditions under which they lived. Also, they absorbed songs from outside sources whenever these pieces could be adapted to their sentiments and ways of life. Thus, by a process of memory, composition and recreation they developed a rich body of folk songs. The following collection a part of the effort to discover and preserve these songs.

Author : Gayraud S. Wilmore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0822309262

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African American Religious Studies by Gayraud S. Wilmore Pdf

Gayraud S. Wilmore is Professor of Church History and Afro-American Religious Studies at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published numerous articles and booksl including Black Witness to the Apostolic Faith, David Shannon, co-ed.; Black and Presbyterian: The Heritage and the Hope; and Last Things First. Professor Wilmore is the recpicient of the Bruce Klunder Award of the Presbyterian Interracial Councils (1969), the Sward of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Harlem (1971), and various honorary degrees.

Author : Richard Bode
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 145554552X

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First You Have to Row a Little Boat by Richard Bode Pdf

Now with a brand new foreword from New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Zaslow. FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting to change, and becoming his own person. The book is filled with the spiritual wisdom and thought-provoking discoveries that marked such books as Walden, The Prophet, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For nearly twenty years, it has enchanted and endeared sailors and non-sailors alike, but foremost, anyone who seeks large truths in small things. This refurbished edition will find a place in the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.

Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 069104399X

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The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 by Allen Forte Pdf

In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.

Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300127546

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Richard Rodgers by Geoffrey Block Pdf

Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage. In this absorbing book, Geoffrey Block examines Rodgers’s entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals. Block traces Rodgers’s musical education, early work, and the development of his musical and dramatic language. He focuses on two shows by Rodgers and Hart (A Connecticut Yankee and The Boys from Syracuse) and two by Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific and Cinderella), offering new insights into each one. He concludes with the first serious look at the five neglected and often maligned musicals that Rodgers composed in the 1960s and 1970s, after the death of Hammerstein.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781429958110

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Looking for a Ship by John McPhee Pdf

This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.

Author : James Whitmer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781663253101

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The Mermaid Legends and the Maidens of the Sea - Book 2 by James Whitmer Pdf

The young reader will appreciate the wonderful world of mermaids, sea creatures. Sea wizards and sailors of the seven seas; and how all these elements interrelate into an understanding of the life of mermaids , the sea, the sea creatures, and the sailors with whom they are intertwined.

Author : John Wesley Work
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486402710

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American Negro Songs by John Wesley Work Pdf

Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.

Author : John W. Work
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486320144

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American Negro Songs by John W. Work Pdf

Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.

Author : Sam Guzman
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621640684

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The Catholic Gentleman by Sam Guzman Pdf

What it means to be a man or a woman is questioned today like never before. While traditional gender roles have been eroding for decades, now the very categories of male and female are being discarded with reckless abandon. How does one act like a gentleman in such confusing times? The Catholic Gentleman is a solid and practical guide to virtuous manhood. It turns to the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church to answer the important questions men are currently asking. In short, easy- to-read chapters, the author offers pithy insights on a variety of topics, including • How to know you are an authentic man • Why our bodies matter • The value of tradition • The purpose of courtesy • What real holiness is and how to achieve it • How to deal with failure in the spiritual life

Author : Janet Newbill
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418403003

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A Collection of Silver Threads by Janet Newbill Pdf

This book consists of a collection of devotions, poems, and true life experiences that I have taken from my private prayer journal. Some of these experiences were joyful and others were very painful. I stand in awe that God took time to speak to me personally in what were seemingly the most ordinary circumstances of my life. Although I am a work in progress, I feel his love and acceptance in spite of my weaknesses and shortcomings. This book is not meant to be a typical daily devotional book. It was written with the prayer that each of the writings in this collection would speak to you, the reader, in a very personal and timely manner, from my heart to yours.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCSC:32106019929477

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Parliamentary Debates by New Zealand. Parliament Pdf