Download or read book The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras written by Robert J. Flanagan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the economic challenges facing symphony orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad (where governments typically provide large direct subsidies). Robert J. Flanagan explains the tension between artistic excellence and financial jeopardy that confronts most symphony orchestras. He analyzes three complementary strategies for addressing orchestras' economic challenges—raising performance revenues, slowing the growth of performance expenses, and increasing nonperformance income—and demonstrates that none of the three strategies alone is likely to provide economic security for orchestras.
Download or read book A Symphony of Life written by Simin Redjali and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Symphony of Life Triumph of Education over Adversity A Journey of a Persian - American Woman Through War, Revolution, Love, and Freedom The story of Dr. Redjali, a well known public figure in Iran in the mid-twentieth century, begins in Iran (Persia) during the time of Iran's westernization and modernization spearheaded by Reza Shah Pahlavi at the beginning of the 20th century and follows the social, historical, political turmoil, and educational events of the past seventy years in Iran, in Europe and the United States. Like a symphony, this book is composed of four movements. Through these movements, the author weaves the notes of her life into melodies of social and historical changes, upheavals, wars, revolutions and peace. She traces her own transition from being part of Iran's ruling class to her job-seeking struggles in the United States. This provides the reader, through the author's firsthand experience with many of the great events of the 20th century, a personal account of Iran's contemporary history and politics, education, along with an eye-witness account of the United States civil rights movement, the women's rights struggle, other important issues related to psychology and mental health, and personal issues such as surviving cancer in the United States. Her story encompasses shifts in the tempos and melodies of life, along with a leitmotiv of love of family, individual freedom, and unwavering hope for humanity. The book illustrates the personal approach the author has adopted throughout her life in coping with and overcoming every adversity through using the power of education. It's also a testament to a woman's ability to balance all the facets of her life-. career demands, family responsibilities, emotional needs, and the quest to help others. This book with historical pictures uniquely covers the period between the rise and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the author's personal life in Europe and the United States. It is supported by extensive research, and expresses a great hope that the longstanding cultural misunderstanding and miscommunication between Iran and the West will soon be replaced with a mutual respect which celebrates the power of individual freedom and democracy.
Download or read book Wild Symphony written by Dan Brown and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown makes his picture book debut with this mindful, humorous, musical, and uniquely entertaining book! The author will be donating all US royalties due to him to support music education for children worldwide, through the New Hampshire Charitable foundation. Travel through the trees and across the seas with Maestro Mouse and his musical friends! Young readers will meet a big blue whale and speedy cheetahs, tiny beetles and graceful swans. Each has a special secret to share. Along the way, you might spot the surprises Maestro Mouse has left for you- a hiding buzzy bee, jumbled letters that spell out clues, and even a coded message to solve! Children and adults can enjoy this timeless picture book as a traditional read-along, or can choose to listen to original musical compositions as they read--one for each animal--with a free interactive smartphone app, which uses augmented reality to play the appropriate song for each page when a phone's camera is held over it.
Download or read book The Symphony of Your Life written by Mark Hardcastle and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you respond when Fortune challenges you with difficult times? It's not about life's inevitable challenges. It's all about how we respond. This book gives you tools and shows you how to use them to fight and win your hard battles.
Download or read book The Music of Life written by Louis Thomas and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of joy and discovery, Louis Thomas' The Music of Life is a simple, melodious picture book about finding big inspiration and beauty in the smallest of details. At night when everyone else is asleep, one artist sits awake--pencil in hand, stuck. Lenny is a composer, but this evening, no music floats from his head. Then as night breaks into dawn, Lenny's cat, Pipo, begins lapping milk. Lick lick lick. Birds yawn awake, singing in the trees. Tweet tweet! A bike bell tings on the street below. Suddenly, Lenny notices a rhythm to the world around him. He pulls on his coat and walks through the city to write down every sound he can find. Lenny listens to a gardener, a jogger, a dogwalker, and more neighborhood characters. Finally, the morning's sounds culminate in a sun-dappled symphony that Lenny conducts in the center of the park.
Download or read book Mole Music written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.
Download or read book A Symphony of Life written by Darlin Nickie and published by Author House. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and reared in a multicultural family and environment Darlin Nickie began writing poetry at an early age. Indeed she was inspired by both her personal experiences as well as those around her. As a young poet she would recite her poetry amongst her peers which often would inspire and moved their young minds. Over the years Darlin Nickie also began writing for her friends personally in order to motivate them through hard times which encouraged her to share her poetry with the world.
Download or read book The Music of Life written by Elizabeth Rusch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Rusch and two-time Caldecott Honor–recipient Marjorie Priceman team up to tell the inspiring story of the invention of the world’s most popular instrument: the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori coaxes just the right sounds from the musical instruments he makes. Some of his keyboards can play piano, light and soft; others make forte notes ring out, strong and loud, but Cristofori longs to create an instrument that can be played both soft and loud. His talent has caught the attention of Prince Ferdinando de Medici, who wants his court to become the musical center of Italy. The prince brings Cristofori to the noisy city of Florence, where the goldsmiths’ tiny hammers whisper tink, tink and the blacksmiths’ big sledgehammers shout BANG, BANG! Could hammers be the key to the new instrument? At last Cristofori gets his creation just right. It is called the pianoforte, for what it can do. All around the world, people young and old can play the most intricate music of their lives, thanks to Bartolomeo Cristofori’s marvelous creation: the piano.
Download or read book Symphony for the City of the Dead written by M.T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.
Download or read book The Music of Life written by Inayat Khan and published by Suluk Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachings on sound presenting a vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of life. Science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music.
Download or read book Music for Life written by Fiona Maddocks and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives and always putting the music first.
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Download or read book The Symphony of Life written by Henry Wood and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Symphony Of Thought written by Eric Christian Von Fricken and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From world renowned composer and pianist, Eric Christian, comes his debut work as an author. "A Symphony of Thought is a delightful book of aphorisms, an exercise in the exploration of an artist's full spectrum of thought." -Manasseh David Israel, editor of The American Sublime "Many a time have I found comfort and inspiration in sitting across from Eric in an NYC bar and listening to his thoughts over his preferred order of a plate of pasta, olives, and a negroni. I'm glad the joy and inspiration our chats have brought me are now available for everyone to enjoy as much as I have throughout our years of friendship." -Sophia Bacelar, cellist and artist "This is a book about life, music and meaning, bundled with all of the idiosyncrasies that come along with being an artist nowadays. There's an unspeakable beauty in capturing the sense of what may be a long midnight conversation - an analysis of a situation, an account of an ironic turn of events, an insight into something imminent - with just a few words. And just like Eric's company, they're best enjoyed with a glass of your finest wine." -Alfonso Peduto, composer and pianist --- Music begins where words end; depending on where you're coming from, this also works the other way round. Indeed, there is a long tradition of artists as not only artists but also writers, traversing the whole path between these two poles: Debussy, the composer and critic in his anonymous persona of Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater; Nietzsche, aphorist and composer, raising hell and defying heaven in his "Joyful Science"; Van Gogh, painter and passionate diarist in the letters to his dear brother Theo. Truth be told it's a recent invention-the idea that artists only ever do one thing. But artists have always been masters of arts in general; this includes writing, which is really another form of thinking. For if one is doing art and thought right-at the right depths, at the right times, and to the right degrees-one will have no choice but to eventually hit the bedrock of existence with philosophy. Eric Christian's A Symphony of Thought is a delightful book of aphorisms, an exercise in the exploration of an artist's full spectrum of thought. It is a portrait of the artist in the valleys between the mountain peaks that are his music, and a window into what things might occupy the mind of a classical composer in our time. -Manasseh David Israel, THE AMERICAN SUBLIME
Download or read book The Music of Life written by Denis Noble and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's eye view of life, advocated by evolutionary biology, sees living bodies as mere vehicles for the replication of the genetic codes. But for a physiologist, working with the living organism, the view is a very different one. Denis Noble is a world renowned physiologist, and sets out an alternative view to the question - one that becomes deeply significant in terms of the living, breathing organism. The genome is not life itself. Noble argues that far from genes building organisms, they should be seen as prisoners of the organism. The view of life presented in this little, modern, post-genome project reflection on the nature of life, is that of the systems biologist: to understand what life is, we must view it at a variety of different levels, all interacting with each other in a complex web. It is that emergent web, full of feedback between levels, from the gene to the wider environment, that is life. It is a kind of music. Including stories from Noble's own research experience, his work on the heartbeat, musical metaphors, and elements of linguistics and Chinese culture, this very personal and at times deeply lyrical book sets out the systems biology view of life.
Download or read book The Symphony Of Life written by Keith Kelly and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of West Memphis, Arkansas, Kaley's life seems like an endless quest for inner peace. Torn between her childhood dreams of becoming a musician or writer, she finds herself perpetually stuck in a grocery store-bagel shop hybrid she jokingly refers to as her "career of doom." As she struggles to break free from this cycle, an eclectic and extraordinary group of friends enter her life, each on their own path of peculiar self-discovery. Amidst the shelves of her Shop Side store, Kaley encounters the astonishing journey of her ex-husband, Roscoe, who yearns to transition into Rozie Redd Skye. Meanwhile, a young man named David embarks on a quest to find his biological father. All the while, Kaley's longtime customer, Shady Ray, weaves enthralling tales, and soon separating fact from fiction becomes a challenging task. In Keith Kelly's 'The Symphony of Life', unlikely friendships blossom and secrets unravel within the walls of Shop Side, offering a glimpse into the magic and complexity of life.
Download or read book A Symphony of Silence An Enlightened Vision 2nd Edition written by George A. Ellis and published by George A. Ellis. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of A Symphony of Silence: An Enlightened Vision was inspired by the desire to share with humanity, through multiple voices, the ineffable beauty we experience in our lives when the veil of ignorance is pulled back and the wonder of our essential nature is revealed.. The voices emerging from these pages add vitality and validity to our shared experience of the silence of the transcendent. It is not something beyond our reach, but a reality that has always been with us, quietly awaiting an opportunity to unfold. In this second edition of A Symphony of Silence, several new voices are added to the chorus of the first edition. A Catholic priest tells us of using TM as part of his inspired vision of the power of love to transform the lives of abused and destitute children from the streets of South America. The founding director of an orphanage and school in Uganda, who likewise brings TM to children in need, describes to us his compassionate resolve to eradicate suffering within his community. A poet expresses for us in verse the joy of a seeker reaching for the light. A scientist and his colleagues show us the power of TM to reduce stress and alleviate PTSD in the field of law enforcement. An actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur, explores with us his innovative projects for inner city students through “Edutainment.” Women, who for decades dedicated themselves to introducing the TM program to their multicultural community, share with us delightful and very personal stories. A pioneering social activist brings us into the conversation he had with Maharishi in 1968 at a conference in Squaw Valley, California. He talked candidly with Maharishi about the need to introduce TM as a tool to bring inner freedom to the inner cities, helping to fulfill the quest for true civil rights. The voices in A Symphony of Silence create a glimpse into the vast impact that Maharishi has on many lives throughout the world.
