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Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original orchestral scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations with long-forgotten documents and current interviews wi...
This is the 9th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased. Through its members and foreign associates, the Academy carries out the responsibilities for which it was established in 1964. Under the charter of the National Academy of Sci...
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Fluffy had the purrfect life at the cozy Small Town Animal Shelter - sunning himself in the big front window, getting head scratches from all the visitors, and knowing he would be cared for until his forever home came along. But one morning, Fluffy is nowhere to be found! Shelter volunteer Bethany is distraught over Fluffy's disappearance. As she searches for clues amongst Fluffy's favorite napping spots, she discovers something that has her fur standing on end - evidence that Fluffy may have been taken against his will. With the help of her sleuthing shelter cat companions - Mark, a tortoiseshell with intelligence beyond his size, and Alex, a chatty tuxedo always eager to help - Bethany beg...
In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbule...
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Everyone was fine until they tried to leave town Matt Strong, a high school biology teacher in a small New Hampshire town is stunned when people from the town start dying of a mysterious ailment. They’re fine when in the town, but get sick and soon die horribly when they venture away. As more deaths occur, he gets the CDC and other government agencies involved in his investigation. Can a determined teacher save the town before it’s too late?