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Author : Gabriel Banat
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1576471098
Banat, a concert violinist and teacher, describes the life of this virtuoso violinist, who is thought to be the earliest black European composer, born on his father's plantation on Guadeloupe.
Author : Walter E. Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418407957
Long before the word Super Star was coined, Saint-Georges was the original. Many people throughout history have been famous for one reason or another. Many have made great contributions to civilization and left great legacies. Their paintings and sculptures we still admire. Their discoveries have made our lives better; their music we still play and sing, but no one in history was as talented in so many areas as Saint-Georges. For a time, he was the greatest fencer in the world. He was an exceptional violinist and along with his teacher, Gossec, he pioneered the composition of the String Quartet. Even Mozart came to Paris to study this new form of music. Saint-Georges was an unequaled equestrian, an exceptional marksman and an elegant dancer. The wealthy copied the way he dressed, and the common people admired him as he walked through the streets, and whispered his name. He was a true Renaissance man and a super star in the Paris of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. What is even more remarkable was the fact that he was a mulatto.
Author : Emil Smidak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015049693727
"17, May 1779 - Landais gave us an account of St-George at Paris, -a mulatto man, son of a former governor of Guadeloupe, by a negro woman. He has a sister married to a former-general. He is the most accomplished man in Europe, in riding, running, shooting, fencing, dancing, music. Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-George is Unique in the history of European music, first for his origins and then for the diversity of this talents and the manifold dacets of his achievement"--Jacket.
Author : Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307982490
The musical superstar of 18th-century France was Joseph Boulogne—a black man. This inspiring story tells how Joseph, the only child of a black slave and her white master, becomes "the most accomplished man in Europe." After traveling from his native West Indies to study music in Paris, young Joseph is taunted about his skin color. Despite his classmates' cruel words, he continues to devote himself to his violin, eventually becoming conductor of a whole orchestra. Joseph begins composing his own operas, which everyone acknowledges to be magnifique. But will he ever reach his dream of performing for the king and queen of France? This lushly illustrated book by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome introduces us to a talented musician and an overlooked figure in black history.
Author : Alain Guédé
Publisher : Praeger/Greenwood
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312309279
"Virtually forgotten until now, his life is the stuff of legend. Born in 1739 in Guadeloupe to a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the doomed court of Louis XVI, and, most of all, a virtuosic musician. A violinist, he directed the Olympic Society of Concerts, which was considered the finest in Europe in an age of great musicians, including Haydn, from whom he commissioned a symphony, and Mozart, to whom he was often compared. He also became the first Freemason of color, embracing the French Revolution with the belief that it would end the racism against which--despite his illustrious achievements--he struggled his whole life"--Publisher's description.
Author : Charlotte M. Yonge
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781554807949
Author : Michelle Meadows
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250819949
A lyrical picture book biography of Simone Biles, gymnastics champion and Olympic superstar. Before she was a record-breaking gymnast competing on the world stage, Simone Biles spent time in foster care as a young child. Nimble and boundlessly energetic, she cherished every playground and each new backyard. When she was six years old, Simone's family took shape in a different way. Her grandparents Ron and Nellie Biles adopted Simone and her sister Adria. Ron and Nellie became their parents. Simone was also introduced to gymnastics that same year, launching a lifelong passion fueled by remarkable talent, sacrifice, and the undying support of her family. From her athletic early childhood to the height of her success as an Olympic champion, Flying High is the story of the world's greatest gymnast from author Michelle Meadows and illustrator Ebony Glenn.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199884520
Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.
Author : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:N10169222
Author : Tom Leonard
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250154439
For Johann Sebastian there was always music. His family had been musicians, or bachs as they were called in Germany, for 200 years. He always wanted to be a bach. As he grew, he saw patterns in everything. Patterns he would turn into melodies and song, eventually growing into one of the most important and celebrated musical composers of all time. This is the story of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Author : Kat Savage
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1796814105
Dani Monroe is more than just another jaded woman. Her veins run deep with every reason to never fall in love. If her mother taught her anything, it was how easily a betrayal is earned. After a childhood spent learning that lesson, it's the only truth she knows. Now, as a woman with needs, she strictly dates married men. She knows what she is getting with them-all of the fun and none of the feelings-and that's how she likes it.Lucas Kane has only ever been in love once. Disloyalty followed soon after and he wants no part of "a future" with anyone ever again. But having the same conversation with different women became redundant. So he slipped on a wedding ring, and soon realized there were many women out there very attracted to married men. Those same women asked no questions when it came time to say goodbye. So he carries on like this-faking a married life and fooling around.A chance encounter brings the two together and while it sounds like a match made in heaven, both are leery, with cynical hearts. What happens when two people hell bent on avoiding love find themselves falling? How many lies have they told? Will the truth set them free, or rip them apart?
Author : Roberto Pagano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 157647108X
Pagano provides a study of the relationship between composer Alessandro Scarlatti and his son Domenico (also a composer), in the context of seventeenth-century Sicilian culture. He addresses many of the research questions that have persisted in scholarship since Ralph Kirkpatrick's monograph, such as Domenico's role at the Portuguese court, reasons
Author : Amber O'Neal Johnston
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780593538289
A guide for families of all backgrounds to celebrate cultural heritage and embrace inclusivity in the home and beyond. Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities. A Place to Belong offers a path forward for families to honor their cultural heritage and champion diversity in the context of daily family life by: • Fostering open dialogue around discrimination, race, gender, disability, and class • Teaching “hard history” in an age-appropriate way • Curating a diverse selection of books and media choices in which children see themselves and people who are different • Celebrating cultural heritage through art, music, and poetry • Modeling activism and engaging in community service projects as a family Amber O’Neal Johnston, a homeschooling mother of four, shows parents of all backgrounds how to create a home environment where children feel secure in their own personhood and culture, enabling them to better understand and appreciate people who are racially and culturally different. A Place to Belong gives parents the tools to empower children to embrace their unique identities while feeling beautifully tethered to their global community.
Author : Naomi Andre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252050619
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemmings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
Author : Joseph Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Alkalies
ISBN : UOM:39015028014911