Download or read book Shubert s New Friend written by Rebecca Anne Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shubert, a lightning bug, expects to lead his class in the welcoming of a new member. The warm welcome turns quickly into teasing, laughing, and exclusion. Spencer, the new student, looks different from everyone else. See how Mrs. Bookbinder and the Bug Valley gang learn to accept diversity and also embrace it."--Back cover.
Download or read book Shubert s Helpful Day written by Loving Guidance, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sleeping with Schubert written by Bonnie Marson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems that the legendary composer Franz Schubert is alive—well, sort of—in the twenty-first century: His soul has taken up residence in the body of Brooklyn lawyer Liza Durbin. Even more astonishing, so has his prodigious gift. A mediocre pianist at best as a child, Liza can suddenly pound out concertos and compose masterly music out of the blue. But how can a brilliant male Austrian composer from the nineteenth century coexist in the everyday life of a modern American woman? And how can Liza explain what’s happened to her without everyone thinking she’s gone off the deep end? Fortunately, the evidence is tangible, and Liza is soon brought into the esteemed halls of Juilliard under the tutelage of the revered—and feared—Greta Pretsky, a humorless woman whose only interest in Liza is her channeling of Schubert. Greta’s greedy for her next big star, and the entire New York City press is whispering of Liza’s brilliance as the public awaits her debut at Carnegie Hall. Even Liza’s boyfriend, Patrick, seems more in love with her than ever. Yet as Liza yields to Franz’s great passion, her own life and identity threaten to elude her. Why was she chosen as the vessel for this musical genius—and when, if ever, will he leave? Their entwined souls follow a path of ecstasy, peril, and surprise as they search for the final, liberating truth. A strikingly original novel, Sleeping with Schubert plays on years of speculation regarding Franz Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony.” Bonnie Marson’s extraordinary imagination supposes that Schubert cannot truly die until the mystery is solved—even if it means being resurrected in the body of a deceptively ordinary woman. Filled with drama and humor, this irresistible novel explores love, genius, and identity in ways that will engage and amaze readers.
Download or read book Danger on My Doorstep written by Linda Schubert and published by Brandylane Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin had been safe for Anita Powitzer for as long as she could remember. But when Hitler came to power, everything changed. Now policemen harmed instead of helped, and Anita couldn't even talk to her best friend. Flung from her secure childhood into a fearful world, she and her family had to find a way to flee Berlin before it was too late. It was risky, and Anita had to be separated from her loved ones, but this was the only way out. Alone in a country with a language she didn't understand, staying with people she had never met, Anita had to wait and hope her parents could join her. Would she and her family be safe? A journey fraught with danger from Germany to Great Britain, and finally to America, this is the true story of one Jewish family's escape from Nazi Berlin.
Download or read book Shubert Sees the Best written by Loving Guidance, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shubert wonders why other bugs in his school make fun of Crenshaw the Cricket and call him names. All the bugs learn to see Crenshaw through "loving eyes" and understand why he behaves differently from them.
Download or read book Lulu the Broadway Mouse written by Jenna Gavigan and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratatouille meets Broadway in this charming new middle grade novel about a little mouse with big dreams. Lulu is a little girl with a very big dream: she wants to be on Broadway. She wants it more than anything in the world. As it happens, she lives in Broadway's Shubert Theatre; so achieving her dream shouldn't be too tricky, right? Wrong. Because the thing about Lulu? She's a little girl mouse. When a human girl named Jayne joins the cast of the show at the Shubert as an understudy, Lulu becomes Jayne's guide through the world of her theatre and its wonderfully kooky cast and crew. Together, Jayne and Lulu learn that sometimes dreams turn out differently than we imagined; sometimes they come with terms and conditions (aka the company mean girl, Amanda). But sometimes, just when we've given up all hope, bigger and better dreams than we'd ever thought could come true, do.
Download or read book Shubert s Choice written by Loving Guidance, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Broadway written by Gerald Schoenfeld and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Broadway was completed just one month before Gerald Schoenfeld's death in 2008 at the age of 84. Bringing the reader backstage, the long-term chairman of the Shubert Organization shares his triumphs and failures, sings praise, and settles scores. He recounts nightmarish tales of the Shuberts, themselves – the meanness of Lee, the madness of JJ, the turmoil surrounding John's personal life, and the drunken ineptitude of Lawrence Shubert Lawrence, Jr., the man who succeeded them and nearly brought the Shubert legacy to an ignominious end. An active participant in that legacy for over 50 years, Schoenfeld describes how he and his partner, Bernie Jacobs, saved the Shubert Organization, bringing some of Broadway's greatest hits to the stage – from A Chorus Line, Equus, and Amadeus to Pippin, Les Misérables, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Godspell, Ain't Misbehavin', Dreamgirls, Dancin', Sunday in the Park with George, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Heidi Chronicles, The Gin Game, Miss Saigon, and Chess.
Download or read book The Drama of Celebrity written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable. Drawing on scrapbooks, personal diaries, and vintage fan mail, Marcus traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era's most innovative media and technologies: the popular press, commercial photography, and speedy new forms of travel. Whether you love celebrity culture or hate it, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times.
Download or read book Oliver Button Is a Sissy written by Tomie dePaola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful edition of Tomie dePaola’s progressive 1979 classic stars a special little boy who won’t give up on the dreams that make him unique. Oliver Button is a sissy. At least that’s what the other boys call him. But here’s what Oliver Button really is: a reader, and an artist, and a singer, and a dancer, and more. What will his classmates say when he steps into the spotlight?
Download or read book Schubert s Winter Journey written by Ian Bostridge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconic—these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour—it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions—loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope—until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work (he has sung it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, his biography and psychological makeup, the historical and political pressures within which he became one of the world’s greatest composers, and the continuing resonances and affinities that our ears still detect today, making Schubert’s wanderer our mirror.
Download or read book I Love You Rituals written by Becky Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laura Ingalls Is Ruining My Life written by Shelley Tougas and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte struggles to adjust when her mother moves the family to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, the small, boring town where pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up, in hopes of finding inspiration for her writing career.
Download or read book Ballet of the Elephants written by Leda Schubert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the circus and the ballet of fifty elephants and dancers choreographed by George Ballanchine in 1942.
Download or read book Portraits of a People written by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, a number of cutting edge African American artists have investigated issues of race and American identity in their work, relying on the use of historical source material and the subversion of archaic media. This scrutiny of little known, yet uncannily familiar, racialized imagery by contemporary artists has created a renewed interest in the politics of nineteenth-century American art and the role of race in the visual discourse. Portraits of a People looks critically at images made of and by African Americans, extending back to the late 1700s when a portrait of African-born poet Phillis Wheatley was drawn by her friend, the slave Scipio Moorhead. From the American Revolution until the Civil War and on into the Gilded Age, American artists created dynamic images of black sitters. In their effort to create enduring symbols of self-possessed identity, many of these portraits provide a window into cultural stereotypes and practices. For example, while some of these pictures were undoubtedly of distinct, named individuals, many are now known by titles that reference only generalized types, such as Joshua Johnston's painting Portrait of a Man, c. 1805–10, or the silhouette inscribed "Mr. Shaw's blackman," cut around 1802 by the manumitted slave Moses Williams. By the middle of the nineteenth century, photography began to offer black sitters an affordable and accessible way to fashion an individual identity and sometimes obtain financial support, as in the case of the numerous cartes-de-visites produced during the 1860s and '70s that bear the image of the feminist activist Sojourner Truth above the text, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance." Portraits of a People features colour reproductions of over 100 important portraits in various media, ranging from paintings, photographs, and silhouettes to book frontispieces and popular prints. Essays by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw consider silhouettes and African American identity in the early republic, photography and the black presence in the public sphere after the Civil War, and portrait painting and social fluidity among middle-class African American artists and sitters. This landmark publication will change the way that we view the images of blacks in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Moon Key written by J.R. Stampfl and published by PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PHASE ONE of The LATCH Adventures_x000D_ _x000D_ THE MAGIC OF THE MOON..._x000D_ _x000D_ If you believe that the silvery light of the full moon illuminates magic- _x000D_ then MOON KEY is for you._x000D_ _x000D_ MOON KEY is the story of a foster child, Wendy Hilton. For some reason, Wendy’s parents had to leave her in a basket outside of a theater in New York City. They wrote a note saying they would be back. But, they never did come back. _x000D_ _x000D_ At midnight on her 13th birthday, Wendy stands under the light of the full moon. She fingers the crescent moon necklace that her parents left around her neck. She makes a very special vow, “I realize now that my parents are not coming back to save me. I have to do it on my own... Somehow, I will find my magic and use it.”_x000D_ _x000D_ The moon’s magic works. The very next day Wendy is transported to the world of LATCH, the Lunar Arena of Transformation, Concentration and Hope and her whole life changes. She learns that she has had magic her whole life. Her necklace is her MOON KEY. It unlocks the world of moonlit magic and adventure. _x000D_ _x000D_ Soon Wendy will be lighting the torch of the Statue of Liberty and swimming with the sea lions in the Central Park Zoo. She will have her first friend and her first enemy._x000D_ _x000D_ Her life will never be the same.
Download or read book Conscious Discipline Expanded and Updated written by Becky A. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
