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- Narrado por: Gregory St. John
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Even if you don’t think you know Samuel Barber’s iconic "Adagio for Strings" by name, chances are extremely high you’ll recognize it when you hear it.
This most mournful song, often played at funerals and similarly somber occasions, is explored in depth in The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Narrated with kind enthusiasm by Gregory St. John, it is both a critical analysis of the famous piece and a biography on the complicated life of its American born composer, Samuel Barber.
A very intriguing and enlightening listen recommended for anyone appreciative of classical music history.
Resumen del Editor
An exploration of the cultural impact of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, the Piet of music, and its enigmatic composer. In the first book ever to explore Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, music and literary critic Thomas Larson tells the story of the prodigal composer, his seminal masterpiece and its fascinating history as America's secular hymn for grieving our dead.
The Adagio's sonorous intensity also speaks of the turbulent inner life of its composer, a melancholic who, in later years, descended into alcoholism and severe depression. Part biography, part cultural history, part memoir, The Saddest Music Ever Written captures the deep emotion Barber's great elegy has stirred throughout the world during its seventy-five-year history, becoming an icon of our national soul.
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Miss.'s BCS-Bundren.Compson.Snopes/Sutpen/Sartoris
- De W Perry Hall en 05-01-14
De: Philip Weinstein
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- De: Lucasta Miller
- Narrado por: Sally Scott
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Romantic Life
- De David en 05-03-22
De: Lucasta Miller
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
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The Ballad of Bob Dylan
- A Portrait
- De: Daniel Mark Epstein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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The Ballad of Bob Dylan is a vivid, full-bodied portrait of one of the most influential artists of the 20th-century - a man widely regarded as the most important lyricist America has ever produced. Acclaimed poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein frames Dylan against the backdrop of four seminal concerts - all of which he attended. Beautifully written, The Ballad of Bob Dylan is a unique, eye-opening portrait of an artist who has transformed generations and continues to inspire and surprise today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book, excellent narration
- De L chandler en 12-22-11
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Colm Toibin
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, Tóibín recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eminently re-readable
- De Ellen-A en 01-02-19
De: Colm Toibin
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The Secret Life of the American Musical
- How Broadway Shows Are Built
- De: Jack Viertel
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in actors and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great review lacked music
- De joseph f mcgovern en 10-14-18
De: Jack Viertel
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Fryderyk Chopin
- A Life and Times
- De: Dr. Alan Walker
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker's work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is a masterpiece
- De Carpe Diem en 02-09-19
De: Dr. Alan Walker
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The Voice is All
- The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- De: Joyce Johnson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac's Voice
- De Robert L. Stofel en 09-26-12
De: Joyce Johnson
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The Great Work of Your Life
- A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
- De: Stephen Cope
- Narrado por: Kevin M. Connolly
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 484
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 405
To know your true calling - your dharma, as the yogis say - is perhaps the greatest desire within each of us. And yet, few can say we know our purpose with absolute certainty. Fortunately, there is a time-tested guide - an ancient map - for discovering and fulfilling your unique calling. In The Great Work of Your Life, Stephen Cope walks you through each step of the journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jungian Zen Psychoanalytical Retired Meditation Teacher
- De Glenn Guillory, SFO en 06-13-20
De: Stephen Cope
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An Outlaw and a Lady
- A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith That Brought Me Home
- De: Jessi Colter
- Narrado por: Devon O'day
- Duración: 6 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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The daughter of a Pentecostal evangelist and a race-car driver, Jessi Colter played piano and sang in church before leaving Arizona to tour with rock n' roll pioneer Duane Eddy, whom she married. Colter became a successful recording artist, appearing on American Bandstand and befriending stars such as the the Everly Brothers and Chet Atkins while her songs were recorded by Nancy Sinatra, Dottie West, and others. Her marriage to Eddy didn't last, however, and in 1969 she married the electrifying Waylon Jennings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you Jessi
- De Jene't en 06-28-19
De: Jessi Colter
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Something Wonderful
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
- De: Todd S. Purdum
- Narrado por: Todd S. Purdum
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous book about Rodgers & Hammerstein!!!
- De BigWally en 06-27-18
De: Todd S. Purdum
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On Elizabeth Bishop
- De: Colm Tóibín
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In this book novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences - the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ELIZABETH BISHOP
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 05-19-16
De: Colm Tóibín
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The Fellowship
- The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- De: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 26 h y 31 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If You Love Literature...
- De Ray M en 07-14-16
De: Philip Zaleski, y otros
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Living the Braveheart Life
- Finding the Courage to Follow Your Heart
- De: Randall Wallace
- Narrado por: Matt Baugher
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Part autobiography, part master class, Living the Braveheart Life invites us to explore five major archetypes in Braveheart that resonate not only in Randall's life but in the modern-day lives of both men and women: the father, teacher, warrior, sage, and outlaw. Join blockbuster film director Randall Wallace on the journey of his creative and personal life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Braveheart has a valable message!
- De Mrs.Bushy en 04-28-21
De: Randall Wallace
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The Noise of Time
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Daniel Philpott
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 254
In May 1937, a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Art belongs to everybody and nobody.
- De Darwin8u en 06-13-16
De: Julian Barnes
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Empire of Self
- A Life of Gore Vidal
- De: Jay Parini
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
The product of 30 years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self probes behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well - a virtual who's who of the American Century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Princess Margaret, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done!
- De Christopher en 03-22-16
De: Jay Parini
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Naked at the Albert Hall
- The Inside Story of Singing
- De: Tracey Thorn
- Narrado por: Tracey Thorn
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In her bestselling autobiography, Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a 30-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage fright.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jane Sheedy en 01-11-17
De: Tracey Thorn
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Saddest Music Ever Written
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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- dfamiano
- 11-11-21
Rife with mispronunciations
This performance will drive you crazy if you are sensitive to mispronunciations of musical terms and names of composers.
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- Michael J Gore
- 08-09-21
Curious and moving
A strange and frequently wonderful reflection on Barber’s Adagio. Intertwined are passages reflecting on the author’s family story that are often sad and lovely.
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