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Peter Andre - The Biography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Peter Andre - The Biography

Australian heart-throb Peter Andre captured the hearts of millions when he burst onto the music scene in the early 1990s with summer hit 'Mysterious Girl', and since then he's gained national treasure status among his legions of fans. With international chart success spanning many years, he has proven time after time that the British public will always be open to a Peter Andre comeback. Now, as the king of reality TV, he's a devoted family man with the kind of brave honesty that keeps us all rooting for him.From his high-profile marriage to Katie Price, the birth of his children and raising his step-son Harvey, to his subsequent divorce, television career and the struggles of being a single ...

Piano Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Piano Man

The first full biography of John Ogdon; a tortured genius and arguably the greatest British pianist of all time. From the beginning of his professional career as a soloist John Ogdon was hailed as a musician of rare understanding and phenomenal technical gifts. Able to play and memorize just about any score at sight, tales of his impossible exploits at the keyboard are legion. Yet Ogdon was a man of extremes and it was this very extremity, while the source of much of his gift, that also led to appalling suffering. Here was a man whose feelings were inexpressibly deep and often tormenting, and Ogdon's glory days, following his coveted Tchaikovsky prize in 1962, came to a sudden end in 1973 wh...

Billboard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

Billboard

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1972-11-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

ICC Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

ICC Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Last Romantic in His Own Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

The Last Romantic in His Own Words

The Last Romantic in His Own Words presents the selected writings and interviews of Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer Ernst von Dohnányi. These texts shed new light on Dohnányi's singular aesthetics, as well as on his career as a charismatic and at times controversial public figure who was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, particularly in Hungary. The book facilitates a much-needed reevaluation of a public figure and private individual caught up in the web of twentieth-century politics, resulting in a picture that is more complete than ever of one of the most elusive musicians of the twentieth century.

Selling Britten
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Selling Britten

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

At the end of the nineteenth century Britain was a country without an opera culture, and in the concert halls the Austro-Germanic symphonic repertory reigned supreme. In the following fifty years the art-music culture changed dramatically. Radio, the gramophone and the recording industry, government arts subsidies, Covent Garden, and a post-war resurgence in national and civic pride which contributed to the spread of music festivals, were the agents of change. Born in 1913, Benjamin Britten was well placed to take advantage of these market forces, which he did consistently and skilfully from the 1930s onwards. His relationships with Boosey and Hawkes, Decca, Covent Garden, the Aldeburgh Festival, the English Opera Group, and the Arts Council, had a huge influence on the music he wrote. This book explores the effect of these commercial and national institutions on the music of one of the foremost British composers of the twentieth century.

Maria Callas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Maria Callas

This is the story of Maria Callas, who transformed herself from a chubby, painfully shy girl into a magnificent celebrated soprano, the likes of which we've yet to see again.

The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History of Live Music in Britain address this gap, and do so from the unique perspective of the music promoter: the key theme is the changing nature of the live music industry. The books are focused upon popular music but cover all musical genres and the authors offer new insights into a variety of issues, including changes in musical fashions and tastes; the impact of developing technologies; the balance of power between live and recorded music businesses; the role of the state as regulator and promoter; the effects of demographic and other social changes on music culture; and the continuing importance of do-it-yourself enthusiasts. Drawing on archival research, a wide range of academic and non-academic secondary sources, participant observation and industry interviews, the books are likely to become landmark works within Popular Music Studies and broader cultural history.

Jacqueline Du Pré
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Jacqueline Du Pré

The definitive biography of one of the best-loved musicians of the twentieth-century, who was stricken with illness & died at the height of her career.