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Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
Fantasia Barrino, star of the 2023 film The Color Purple, tells the story of her astonishing rise from hopeless high school dropout to American Idol superstar in the inspirational New York Times bestseller Life Is Not a Fairy Tale. In one moment, with one tearful performance of "Summertime," the nineteen-year-old Fantasia captured the hearts—and the votes—of millions of American Idol fans. Her powerful voice and independent style made her an overnight national sensation. But life wasn't always sensational for Fantasia. At the age of seventeen, despite the promise of her extraordinary voice, Fantasia was in danger of becoming just another sad statistic: an uneducated, unmarried teenage mo...
No Crowns in the Castle
A Grammy Award-winning singer and her husband share what a Godly marriage looks like and encourage readers with faith-forward and Biblical relationship advice. Fantasia Taylor—American Idol, Grammy-winning vocalist, and chart-topping singer—and her husband businessman Kendall Taylor were both successful and living in their purpose when they met and married three weeks later. Their marriage has had its ups and downs, but the one thing that has sustained them through all of it is the practice of taking off their crowns—the accolades, their egos, the things the world tells you matter—and serving each other within the home. It doesn’t matter who you are in the world—you need to h...
The Color Purple
(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). Easy, made-for-the-hands arrangements of 13 songs from the Oprah Winfrey-produced Broadway adaptation of the powerful Alice Walker novel. Contains: Any Little Thing * Big Dog * The Color Purple * Hell No! * I'm Here * Miss Celie's Pants * Mysterious Ways * Our Prayer * Push Da Button * Shug Avery Comin' to Town * Somebody Gonna Love You * Too Beautiful for Words * What About Love'. Great fun for beginning pianists to play!
Kathy Mayes 2004 Prophetic Letter to Fantasia
The Lord reaches to us in any way possible just to get his message across. Be it in silence, signs, whispers, or dreams, he talks to us in ways only we can comprehend. In Kathy Mayes¿s 2004 Prophetic Letter to Fantasia, Charlie Brown¿s Daughter recounts the Lord¿s calling to publish her letter book and reveal a prophecy that will change a person¿s life. Fantasia Barrino was the American Idol Season Three grand winner in 2004. Weeks before the grand finale, the author dreamed of Barrino¿s victory. She was compelled by the Lord to relay his message to Barrino, through her grandmother, before the contest was over. Having been a prophetess for twenty-six years, the author has witnessed the Lord¿s many unending graces and miraculous means of showing his love for us and has become the medium to extend his greatness in the entire humanity. In this book, get to know the forever giving and compassionate Lord as he touches the lives of those who keep a strong faith in him.
Deems Taylor
Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was a composer, music critic, author, commentator, translator, and artist. He was the first American composer commissioned to write an opera by New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and composed orchestral and solo works that remain part of the repertoire. He gained fame initially introducing the regular radio broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic in the mid-‘30s; his fame was so great, that animator Walt Disney invited him to be the on-screen host of Fantasia. Taylor wrote for many popular journals, including Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, as well as the daily press, and his work was collecting in many best-selling books. Taylor’s biographer, James Pegolotti, has ...
Deems Taylor
Composer, critic, author, and radio personality, (Joseph) Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was one of the most influential figures in American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s. A self-taught composer, the New York City native wrote such pieces as the orchestral suite Through the Looking Glass and the acclaimed operas The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson, the first commissions ever offered by the Metropolitan Opera. Taylor's operatic works were among the most popular and widely performed of his day, yet he achieved greatest fame and recognition as the golden-voiced intermission commentator for the New York Philharmonic radio broadcasts and as the on-screen host of Walt Disney's classic film...
American Opera
A treasure trove of information, "American Opera" sketches musical traits and provides plot summaries, descriptions of sets and stagings, and biographical details on performers, composers, and librettists for more than 100 American operas. 86 photos.
The Music for Victory at Sea
This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular attention to its evocative Rodgers-Bennett score. Victory at Sea, NBC-TV's innovative 1952-53 WWII documentary, was eventually broadcast to more than 100 million viewers worldwide. Its episodes chronicled the war's conflicts while highlighting the US Navy's contributions, NBC having sourced footage from the military, governments, and newsreel agencies of fourteen nations. Victory's special distinction was its music, with each episode's nonstop score recorded by the acclaimed NBC Symphony Orchestra. The music was credited to Richard Rodgers-then at the height of his fame-as comp...
