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Book Dear People     Robert Shaw

Download or read book Dear People Robert Shaw written by Joseph A. Mussulman and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few American musicians have touched more people in more ways than has Robert Shaw. A minister's son whose early preparation and temperament seemed to destine him for the pulpit, Shaw instead turned his faith and eloquence to the service of music. From his days as a youthful member of the Fred Waring Glee Club, he went on to achieve fame as conductor of the Robert Shaw Chorale. Today he is the musical director of the Atlanta Symphony. Joseph Mussulman deftly places Shaw and his career against the backdrop of developments in American musical history. He documents the renaissance of the choral tradition, the flowering of the community orchestra, the rise of the recording industry, the role of live radio broadcasts, and the widening recognition of twentieth-century American composers--whose music Shaw has always courageously championed. Mussulman also describes the problems involved in developing new avenues of artistic patronage, and the delights and difficulties of touring. Part III, 'A phoenix in Atlanta,' has a dual focus: it examines the south's reentry into the mainstream of American musical life and reports on Shaw's often stormy tenure in Atlanta. But what emerges most powerfully from this biography is the character of Shaw himself. In his capacity as director of numerous ensembles, Shaw has addressed his musicians--many of them part-time non-professionals--in hortative letters that open with the salutation 'Dear people.' These messages not only express his deeply held beliefs about the spiritual values of great music but also reveal his warmth, wit, and irrepressible humor. Dear People ... Robert Shaw chronicles the career of a remarkable man and a gifted musician, whose foremost conviction is that 'to be an artist is not the privilege of a few but the necessity of us all.'"--Dust jacket.

Book Dear Andrew

Download or read book Dear Andrew written by Robert M Goor and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These inspiring and profoundly hopeful letters, written from a father to his deceased son, comprise an elegant tale of deep feeling, of growth, of a father's unconditional love, and, ultimately, of a journey to peace.

Book Dear Robert  Dear Spike

Download or read book Dear Robert Dear Spike written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dear Mrs  Roosevelt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Cohen
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2003-10-16
  • ISBN : 080786126X
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Dear Mrs Roosevelt written by Robert Cohen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper columns and radio broadcasts to crusade for expanded federal aid to poor children and teens. She was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth Administration, the New Deal's central agency for aiding needy youths, and she was adamant in insisting that federal aid to young people be administered without discrimination so that it reached blacks as well as whites, girls as well as boys. This activism made Mrs. Roosevelt a beloved figure among poor teens and children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters describing their problems and requesting her help. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt presents nearly 200 of these extraordinary documents to open a window into the lives of the Depression's youngest victims. In their own words, the letter writers confide what it was like to be needy and young during the worst economic crisis in American history. Revealing both the strengths and the limitations of New Deal liberalism, this book depicts an administration concerned and caring enough to elicit such moving appeals for help yet unable to respond in the very personal ways the letter writers hoped.

Book Before Starting Over

Download or read book Before Starting Over written by Brian Kim Stefans and published by Salt Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Starting Over is an informal chronicle of several important developments in English-language poetry during the nineties and the turn of the century, most importantly Asian American poetry, digital poetics, and the changing face of poetry's "experimental" wing. There is nothing pious about the approach: one chapter is a distillation of conversations and controversies that occurred on the internet via the author's blog, Free Space Comix, while another is largely composed of playful and polemical "poetics" statements geared toward a popular - i.e. non-elitist or -insider - audience. Consquently, nothing is taken for granted, whether it be the efficacy of a central literary Tradition, or the primacy of the "marginal" or aesthetic "lineages" that are valorized in smaller writing communities identifying with either the "avant-garde" or ethnic minorities (or both). Included are several book reviews by the author that attempt to create a language for discussing the most "difficult" poetry of the past fifteen years energetically and engagingly, in a manner that is neither sugared up nor requiring a doctoral degree to decipher. Several interviews discuss strands of "digital poetics" that were not discussed in the author's Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, especially notions of "hacktivism," internet publishing and the poetics of the anti-war blog Circulars. All in all, the experience of reading Before Starting Over is in which the reader is invited to disagree, to argue, but most of all to feel as passionate, troubled yet optimistic about poetry as the author, one of the more active and intelligent (uh huh) poets and critics to mobilize both the internet and journalistic print publications to examine and champion emerging strands in writing.

Book Dear Elizabeth  A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again

Download or read book Dear Elizabeth A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again written by Sarah Ruhl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1947 and 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four hundred letters. Cataloging the composition of their poems, their travel and daily routines, the pyrotechnics of their romantic relationships, and the profound affection they had for each other, these letters are the most intimate record of both poets and one of the greatest correspondences in American letters."--Back cover.

Book Novels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick Marryat
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Novels written by Frederick Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Dear BB

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Cumming
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-06-16
  • ISBN : 0300216068
  • Pages : 601 pages

Download or read book My Dear BB written by Robert Cumming and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson’s death at age 94. This book makes available, for the first time, the complete correspondence between two of the most influential figures in the 20th-century art world, and gives a new and unique insight into their lives and motivations. The letters are arranged into ten chronological sections, each accompanied by biographical details and providing the context for the events and personalities referred to. They were both talented letter writers: informative, spontaneous, humorous, gossipy, and in their frequent letters they exchanged news and views about art and politics, friends and family life, collectors, connoisseurship, discoveries, books read and written, and travel. Berenson advised Clark on his blossoming career, warning against the museum and commercial art worlds while encouraging his promise as a writer and interpreter of the arts. Above all, these letters trace the development of a deep and intimate friendship.

Book Dear Everybody

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Kimball
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2013-02-05
  • ISBN : 162040219X
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Dear Everybody written by Michael Kimball and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathon Bender had something to say to the world; unfortunately, the world wasn't listening, and didn't start until Jonathon committed suicide. Dear Everybody is his last will and testament: unsent letters addressed to relatives, friends, teachers, classmates, professors, roommates, employers, former girlfriends, his ex-wife, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the state of Michigan, and a weather satellite, just to name a few, alongside the eulogizing reminiscences of his closest acquaintances. Michael Kimball fills in the story of Jonathon's life through his letters, bringing the reader to laughter and tears in an involving and sympathetically written work of fiction.

Book To Have the Honour

Download or read book To Have the Honour written by Alan Alexander Milne and published by London : S. French. This book was released on 1925 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dear Robert

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grace Lee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-01-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Dear Robert written by Grace Lee and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real life love story of twin flames. A True Story: Grace decides to stay behind her pen name to share her real life story truthfully.Grace had lived through some tragic life events. Her beauty worked as a curse. After being abused since she was a child, she learns to keep her head down to avoid unnecessary attention. Then, she faces a death sentence brought by rare type cancer and she negotiates with the universe, "if you let me live, I won't fear for anything. I want to experience the kind of love that will change my life and the world" BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. Grace meets Robert and everything changes. She wonders if Robert was the force that brought her from the opposite side of the globe. Serendipitous events bring them back together over and over as if they're destined to meet. Falling in love with Robert brings out her neglected wounds and insecurities. The Journey has awakened Grace spiritually to find her soul purpose, the meanings of true love and unconditional happiness.The book contains 20 signs of twin flame, her letter to Robert, and graphic illustrations of her memoir.

Book Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

Download or read book Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness written by Robert Cheeke and published by Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most recognized vegan bodybuilders presents a comprehensive guide to building a fit body on a plant-based diet. Author Robert Cheeke inspires people to develop magnificent bodies. His experience with diet, training, contest preparation and other facets of this sport make Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness a fantastic resource for beginners and experienced athletes alike. Readers are provided with insight into the mental and physical aspects involved in becoming a successful bodybuilder. An overview of nutrients and how they function in the body, along with mass-building menus for training, show how to thrive as an athlete and bodybuilder on a vegan diet. Recommendations are given on how to create a successful training regimen that will yield the best results. Throughout the text the author's voice resonates with passion, dedication, and determination. From invaluable advice on how to find sponsorship and make bodybuilding a career to learning how to use bodybuilding for activism and outreach, readers find multi-leveled support for their lifestyle. A resource section is included for products, services and equipment that are completely vegan. Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness leaves a lasting impact by providing tools for motivation and commitment for any area of life.

Book Poet Lore

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Poet Lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Are You Hungry  Dear

Download or read book Are You Hungry Dear written by Doris Roberts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Are You Hungry, Dear?, Doris takes her signature line from the show and makes it her own in a book that pairs hilarious episodes and dramatic turning points from her fascinating life with delicious recipes from her own card file. She shares the lessons learned in two marriages and numerous love affairs, her struggles with her own family, and her heroic efforts to build a career and raise a son on her own. Readers who love tough, feisty, judg-mental Marie Barone will see how Doris is all that and more: tough, sweet, brave, direct, and vibrant. Readers will embrace the un-for-get-table life of this very open star, and relate to the issues-like ageism in Hollywood, sex in the senior years, or her daughter-in-law's imperfect meat sauce-Doris cares about passionately.

Book The British Workwoman

Download or read book The British Workwoman written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dear Sister

Download or read book Dear Sister written by and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 139 letters from six of the seven Gould brothers who left their homes in central New York to fight for the Union Army forms a moving depiction, not only of life on the front lines of the Civil War, but of life on the home front as well. These letters, written to their beloved sister Hannah, span the entire four years of the conflict and run the gamut from initial enlistment to eventual death or discharge. Through the eyes of the Goulds, an immigrant English family struggling to make a new life, one is able to experience this major American historical event with a new understanding. Unfortunately, Hannah's letters to her brothers at the front are lost forever, victims of the fighting; but the vivid responses of her brothers speak to her own questions and concerns about the crisis that was tearing families apart. With only minor annotation and amendment, these letters tell a most important story of separation and domestic change. They reveal the plight of an individual family in the midst of turmoil.

Book The Living Age

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1884
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 894 pages

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: