Download or read book The Violinist and the Ballerina written by Angelin Sydney and published by Massachusetts Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story begins the moment their eyes meet. Instantly, Cathy's well-constructed world almost fell apart when she recognises Jonah, though she doubts that he does. Her mind revisits the past: How long has it been? Eight years? How is it that after so many years I still feel the pain? Involuntarily, her blue eyes moisten, but he is oblivious to her inner turmoil. Instead, he is attracted to her misty blue eyes. They glisten as they catch the reflection of neon lights making them appear like sapphires on fire. Miss Cathy, he later realises, is the same Cathy Goodes he had taunted, tormented, and relentlessly bullied for two years until she moved to a different school. Those years of being high and mighty, and cruel, had haunted him for years. Now the reality of it has come back to ratchet up the guilt one more notch. Given the circumstances of their past, is there a chance for love to blossom? Is forgiveness possible?
Download or read book The Violinist and the Ballerina written by Angelin Sydney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative love story does not have to be written in a hundred thousand words. There are times when less is more. Once again, Angelin Sydney succeeds in writing an emotive story that leaves the readers to fill in the blanks. As a result, they are compelled to feel and to ponder their own reaction to the narrative. The instant their eyes met Cathy's well-constructed world almost fell apart. Oh, no. She recognised him instantly, though she doubted he did. How long had it been? Eight years? Involuntarily, her blue eyes moistened. How is it that after so many years I still feel the pain? He was oblivious to her inner turmoil. Instead, he was attracted to her misty blue eyes. They glistened as they caught the reflection of neon lights making them appear like sapphires on fire. Miss Cathy, he later realised, was the same Cathy Goodes he had taunted, tormented, and relentlessly bullied for two years until she moved to a different school. Those years of being high and mighty, and cruel, had haunted him for years. Now the reality of it had come back to ratchet up the guilt one more notch. Given the circumstances of their past, is there a chance for love to blossom? Is forgiveness possible? To find out, get your copy now of 'The Violinist and the Ballerina.'
Download or read book The Ballerina s Secret written by Teri Wilson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today–Bestselling Author:Love strikes a chord that makes the heart dance . . . “Like journeying through a dream that I never wanted to end.” —Night Owl Reviews Ballerina Tessa Wilde had a glittering career in front of her—and then the accident happened. She’d gotten used to hiding her deafness from the world. She’d been able to teach children at her mother’s dance school, and she had her beloved hearing-assistance dog to help her through the day. But now, she’s managed to land the role of a lifetime. If only Julian Shine, brooding piano accompanist, would leave her alone. Or if she could leave him alone. When he played, she could hear . . . every note. Could it be real? Or was it the music of her heart?
Download or read book The Violin Man written by Colin Thompson and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as anyone can remember, Oscar has played his violin outside the theatre. Every night, as the people queue for their tickets, Oscar fills the air with his music and the echo of his lost dreams. In the old days, his daughter, Marietta, had been there as well, dancing. For just as Oscar dreams of being a famous violinist, it was Marietta's dream to be a famous ballet dancer. But Marietta became ill and now Oscar plays alone. Some nights, though, he catches sight of Marietta's ghost, dancing under the street light. One night, Oscar's dream comes true and he is invited to play in the theatre in front of an audience. They are swept away by his music and his skill. But under the glare of the spotlight, Oscar can't see Marietta dancing. He decides to play only outside on the pavement, where he and Marietta can perform together. 'Don't worry,' he says. 'I won't leave you again.' A lyrical tale of love, loss and music by master storyteller and illustrator, Colin Thompson.
Download or read book The Violin written by Lindsay Pritchard and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You know, to me, a violin and a person are alike. We keep inside the reverberations of the most important people who touch us. And the music we make lives after us.” Imagine you are holding a violin made in 1750. Not a prestigious Amati or Stradivarius but a special one-off commission by a workaday luthier called John Johnson in his small workshop in Cheapside, London. You think about its history of more than a quarter of a millennium. Who made it and why? Who has owned it? Played it? What celebrated characters might have heard it? How was it passed down, hand to hand, and how did its owners’ lives interlink? Holding it you might even muse on the transience of life against the durability of the instrument and the music it has played. This is the story of that violin. It is taken on an incredible journey through history and is passed to a variety of characters including a Georgian libertine, a young French female virtuoso, a philanthropic collector, an illiterate labourer, a heroic WW1 flyer and a young German girl who survives the Holocaust. After a series of coincidences the story of the violin comes full circle in a touching and unexpected denouement. The Violin is the perfect read for fans of historical fiction, or music lovers. It will transport you through time, pull on your heart strings and leave you spellbound.
Download or read book To Dance On Sands written by Marta Becket and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Marta Becket . . . "Tears came to my eyes. Marta represented to me the spirit of the individual. The spirit of the theater. The spirit of creativity." -Ray Bradbury, Author "Marta's paintings have a degree of humor and playfulness. The use of color is outstanding and tell of a generosity, talent and skill." -Red Skelton, Comedian/Artist "Long before anybody invented the term performance art, Marta Becket was doing it, in an abandoned opera house in Death Valley Junction. She restored it an
Download or read book The Butterfly and the Violin written by Kristy Cambron and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the real orchestra composed of prisoners at Auschwitz, The Butterfly and the Violin shows how beauty and hope can penetrate even the darkest corners. Present day: Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her heart is still fragile. Her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl—a painting of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes. In her search for the painting, Sera crosses paths with William Hanover—the grandson of a wealthy California real estate mogul—who may be the key to uncovering the hidden masterpiece. Together Sera and William slowly unravel the story behind the painting’s subject: Austrian violinist Adele Von Bron. 1942: A darling of the Austrian aristocracy, talented violinist, and daughter to a high-ranking member of the Third Reich, Adele Von Bron risks everything when she begins smuggling Jews out of Vienna. In a heartbeat, her life of prosperity and privilege dissolves into a world of starvation and barbed wire. As Sera untangles the secrets behind the painting, she finds beauty in the most unlikely places: the grim concentration camps of Auschwitz and the inner recesses of her own troubled heart. “Cambron expertly weaves together multiple plotlines, timelines, and perspectives to produce a poignant tale of the power of love and faith in difficult circumstances. Those interested in stories of survival and the Holocaust, such as Eli Wiesel’s Night, will want to read.” —Library Journal, starred review Stand-alone World War II historical fiction Full-length novel, approximately 115,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also available from Kristy Cambron: The Italian Ballerina, The Paris Dressmaker, The Lost Castle, The Ringmaster’s Wife, and The Illusionist’s Apprentice
Download or read book We Own the Sky written by Sara Crawford and published by Sara Crawford. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could you create if you fell in love with a Muse? 16-year-old musician, Sylvia Baker, has always been different. She's the only one who can see the "flickering people." When she sees a gorgeous flickering man named Vincent, she learns that they are Muses. With his help, she finds herself creating exquisite songs that she loves almost as much as songs by her favorite bands--Radiohead, M83, and The Black Keys--and she is falling in love in a way she never knew was possible. While trying to maintain her newfound friendships and her band, she falls deeper into the world of the Muses. When the original Greek Muses wake to find a world in which the internet has given everyone the tools to be an artist, a battle between traditional and new methods of creation ensues. As Sylvia discovers how she is connected to the world of the Muses, she learns that this war may put her music, her love, her very life at stake. This young adult urban fantasy romance was a semi-finalist in the YA Books Central 2017 Awards in the "All the Feels" category
Download or read book The Violin player A Novel written by Bertha Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Someday Somewhere written by Lindsay Champion and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured like a sonata, this heartbreaking debut novel hits all the right notes. Dominique is a high school junior from gritty Trenton, barely getting by. Ben is a musical prodigy from the Upper East Side, a rising star at a top conservatory. When Dom’s class is taken to hear a concert at Carnegie Hall, she spots Ben in the front row, playing violin like his life depends on it — and she is transfixed. Posing as an NYU student, Dom sneaks back to New York City to track him down. Soon, the two are desperately in love, each seeing something in the other to complete them. But Ben’s genius, which Dominique so admires, conceals his struggle with mental illness — and the challenges of her own life may make it impossible for her to save him from himself.
Download or read book The Ballet Lover s Companion written by Zoe Anderson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson focuses on 140 ballets, a core international repertory that encompasses works from the ethereal world of romantic ballet to the edgy, muscular works of modern choreographers. She provides a wealth of facts and insights, including information familiar only to dance world insiders, and considers such recent works as Alexei Ramansky's Shostakovich Trilogy and Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale as well as older ballets once forgotten but now returned to the repertory, such as Sylvia. To enhance enjoyment of each ballet, Anderson also offers tips on what to look for during a performance. Each chapter introduces a period of ballet history and provides an overview of innovations and advancement in the art form. In the individual entries that follow, Anderson includes essential facts about each ballet’s themes, plot, composers, choreographers, dance style, and music. The author also addresses the circumstances of each ballet’s creation and its effect in the theater, and she recounts anecdotes that illuminate performance history and reception. Reliable, accessible, and fully up to date, this book will delight anyone who attends the ballet, participates in ballet, or simply loves ballet and wants to know much more about it.
Download or read book Ballerina written by Edward Stewart and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVBefore Black Swan, there was Ballerina: Edward Stewart’s acclaimed novel that follows two young women into the cutthroat world of professional dance/divDIV Stephanie Lang and Christine Avery meet in ballet school. Although they share the same dream—to become great dancers—they could not be more different. Ballet is in Stephanie’s blood; her mother, Anna, is a former dancer who lives to see her daughter achieve the fame she herself never attained. Christine has lived a sheltered life, secure in the love of her family. But her privileged upbringing conceals a devastating secret./divDIV Two teenage dancers, one chance to make it. From the thrill and terror of auditions through years of meticulous training to landing a coveted spot in a professional company, Stephanie and Christine relentlessly pursue their ambitions. As they give their all to dance, they become inseparable—until they are torn apart by their passion for the same man, a brilliant Russian dancer whose seductive, mercurial temperament will have unforeseen consequences for them all. /divDIV/div/div
Download or read book The Making of Markova written by Tina Sutton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-World War I England, a frail Jewish girl is diagnosed with flat feet, knock knees, and weak legs. In short order, Lilian Alicia Marks would become a dance prodigy, the cherished baby ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev, and the youngest ever soloist at his famed Ballets Russes. It was there that George Balanchine choreographed his first ballet for her, Henri Matisse designed her costumes, and Igor Stravinsky taught her music—all when the re-christened Alicia Markova was just 14. Given unprecedented access to Dame Markova’s intimate journals and correspondence, Tina Sutton paints a full picture of the dancer’s astonishing life and times in 1920s Paris and Monte Carlo, 1930s London, and wartime in New York and Hollywood. Ballet lovers and readers everywhere will be fascinated by the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists.
Download or read book A Dancer s Guide to Africa written by Terez Mertes Rose and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Garvey, ballet dancer and recent college graduate, joins the Peace Corps to escape a painful family situation and ends up in Gabon, an African country she's never heard of, hoping its wild beauty will speak to her artist's soul. Instead Fiona quickly realizes she¿s in over her head. Her job teaching English, executed in breezy Western style, crashes hard into Africa's complicated reality. One of her older students becomes menacingly fixated on Fiona, until her former trainer, Christophe, a charismatic, philandering Gabonese man she¿s incapable of forgetting, uses his privilege and connections to make the problem go away.Surrounded by the roots of African dance, Fiona¿s abandoned ballet practice gradually morphs into something feral and mystical. This, along with her pale blue eyes, prompts the locals to believe she holds the power to access the spirit world. And when her former student returns, bent on confronting Fiona one last time, it is not Christophe but Fiona who can¿and must¿reach inside herself to find her own personal power and fight back.Blending humor and pathos, A DANCER¿S GUIDE TO AFRICA takes the reader along on a suspenseful, sensual journey through Africa¿s complex beauty, mystery and mysticism.
Download or read book The Brownstone a Novel written by Julie Brown and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Lili Wentworth is living a dancers dream, an unexpected twist forces her to examine her life and acknowledge the shocking truth of her heritage. With visions of her future left in the hands of her fathers trusted friends, he paves the way for her to discover the precious secrets that will change her life forever. Loyal friendships form an unbreakable bond as Lili struggles to come to terms with the meaning of life. During her darkest days, one of those loyal friends ?nds Lili di?cult to resist as he falls in love with the only part of her that he can relate to. Welcome to the brownstone located on the Upper West Side, the home of Lili Wentworth and her older brother, Grayson. Follow Lili to London, Juilliard, and the hottest clubs in New York City. But no matter where Lili goes, every turn she makes forces her to re?ect on the responsibilities of love, the nature of loss, and the spiritual dimension of life. The clock is ticking as everyone tries to save Lili from her worst enemyherself.
Download or read book Balanchine the Lost Muse written by Elizabeth Kendall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the Lost Muse sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale about this decisive period in the life of the man who would become the most influential choreographer in modern ballet. Abandoned by his mother at the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy in 1913 at the age of nine, Balanchine spent his formative years studying dance in Russia's tumultuous capital city. It was there, as he struggled to support himself while studying and performing, that Balanchine met Ivanova. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine--both during their youth together, and later in his life, after her mysterious death just days before they had planned to leave Russia together in 1924. Kendall shows that although Balanchine would have a great number of muses, many of them lovers, the dark beauty of his dear friend Lidochka would inspire much of his work for years to come. Part biography and part cultural history, Balanchine & the Lost Muse presents a sweeping account of the heyday of modern ballet and the culture behind the unmoored ideals, futuristic visions, and human decadence that characterized the Russian Revolution.
Download or read book Musical Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
