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The first biography of a composer who broke the gender barrier on Broadway. Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the...

A dynamic, fast-paced biography of George Gershwin that has the verve and staccato drive of a book the composer himself...

This book is a detailed consideration of the various projects composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz has worked on throughout his career. Paul...

Itzhak Perlman Kennedy Midori and Sarah Chang were among Dorothy Delay's students during her five decades as...

The Lombardo Story, Guy Lombardo and The Royal Canadians, the band's life and times, by Beverly Fink Cline, is an...

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements...

Available for the first time in English this biography published in Prague only a few months after the...

Detailing the career of Joe Evans, Follow Your Heart chronicles the career of Joe Evans, an alto saxophonist who between...

In this sexually open and disarming account of her life and the era, Cherry Vanilla tells all about her personal...

(Amadeus). Few singers have touched as many hearts as has Andrea Bocelli. This golden-voiced tenor has sung to sold-out audiences...

(Amadeus). Lauded by Verdi, Debussy, and other music legends, the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini raised the standards of orchestral and...

Drawing on five years of research and well over 100 interviews with students colleagues and family members of...

Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time...

A founding father of the modern American musical, Jerome Kern (1885-1945) was the composer of legions of popular songs, including...

A collection of Les Six mélodies reflecting the French aestetic in the early 1920''s espousing clarity in melody, texture and...