Facing the Music

• Author : Larry Brown
• Publisher : Algonquin Books
• Release : 09 January 1996

Facing the Music, Larry Brown’s first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories “is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with man--with the frequent introduction of that other familiar couple, drinking and violence. Most often ugly, love is nevertheless graceful, however desperate the situation.” There’s some glare from the brutally bright light Larry Brown shines on his subjects. This

• Author : Harold C. Schonberg
• Publisher : New York : Summit Books
• Release : 06 May 1981

Contains a selection of the distinguished, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's writings on music and music criticism, composers, contemporary music, singers and vocal music, musicians, pianists, conductors, and performance practice

• Author : Simon Frith
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 01 January 1990

• Author : Paul Auster
• Publisher : Station Hill Press
• Release : 06 May 1980

• Author : Jennifer Knapp
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 07 October 2014

Jennifer Knapp’s meteoric rise in the Christian music industry ended abruptly when she walked away and came out publicly as a lesbian. This is her story—of coming to Christ, of building a career, of admitting who she is, and of how her faith remained strong through it all. At the top of her career in the Christian music industry, Jennifer Knapp quit. A few years later, she publicly revealed she is gay. A media frenzy ensued, and many

• Author : Mary Nickson
• Publisher : Century
• Release : 06 May 2021

'There wouldn't be any trouble if only you had a wife,' Lady Boynton had said. To mild-mannered Gervaise this was a new idea and the longer he thought about it, the more delightful it seemed... But Flavia Cameron was not what Lady Boynton had in mind. Impossibly young, with a musical talent that could have been heard in concert halls around the world, the headmaster's new wife was beautiful and sparkling and she swept the Upper Fourth off their

• Author : Huib Schippers
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release : 06 May 2021

'Facing the Music' provides a rich resource for reflection and practice for all those involved in teaching and learning music in culturally diverse environments, from policy makers to classroom teachers. Schippers gradually unfolds the complexities and potential of learning and teaching music 'out of context'.

• Author : Jane Gardam
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 02 April 2013

A delightful short story from Jane Gardam, revisting that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Edward Feathers (known to many as Old Filth) in the days after he loses his beloved wife, Betty.

• Author : Eva Vogiel
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 06 May 2021

In 1949, a Jewish teenager from a Belgian refugee family, now living in a British boarding school, finds herself at the center of a case of mistaken identity until her mother reveals a secret that forever changes their lives.

• Author : Jayne Torvill,John Man,Christopher Dean
• Publisher : Ulverscroft Large Print Books
• Release : 06 May 1996

The successful and popular ice dancers share their story, from their working-class childhoods in Nottingham to world stardom, and discuss the behind-the-scenes reality of their career, revealing the conflicts and chaos

• Author : Mary Sheepshanks
• Publisher : St Martins Press
• Release : 06 May 1996

Follows the life of Flavia Cameron, a beautiful young woman who is an extremely talented musician and who is married to a mild mannered headmaster of a boy's school, until another man comes along and charms her

• Author : Nick Carter
• Publisher : Bird Street Books
• Release : 17 September 2013

This book is Nick Carter’s autobiography and self-help hybrid in which he chronicles his struggles with a dysfunctional family and the unimaginable rigors of becoming an internationally successful pop-star at the age of 12. From his battle with addiction to serious health complications and the pain of his younger sister’s tragic death, Nick leaves nothing to the imagination and offers true and heartfelt advice to help readers overcome obstacles in their own lives.

• Author : Andrea Goldsmith
• Publisher : Andrea Goldsmith
• Release : 01 November 2018

Facing the Music explores the dark side of ambition and the ambiguous passions which surround creativity. Duncan Bayle is a successful composer whose genius has faltered. He blames his problems on the sudden and inexplicable disappearance of his daughter, Anna, whom he has long regarded as his muse. Duncan believes that if he is to work again, Anna must return. But she had good cause to leave and even better reason to stay away.

• Author : Glenn Wheatley
• Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
• Release : 01 August 2010

For more than four decades Glenn Wheatley has been known on the Australian music scene as both the bass guitarist of the 1960s Australian pop group The Masters Apprentices, and as a successful music manager whose clients have included John Farnham, The Little River Band and Delta Goodrem. But in 2005, he hit the front pages for more infamous exploits-as a key suspect in the Australian Tax Office's Project Wickenby. After terrifying raids on his home and a gruelling court case

• Author : Eamon Grennan
• Publisher : Fordham University Press
• Release : 06 May 1999

In Facing the Music, poet and critic Eamon Grennan gives comprehensive and imaginative life to the modern Irish poetic tradition. With Yeats as his starting point, these essays constitute a suite of intimate engagements with the matter and manner of the poetic intelligence as it declares itself in poets as diverse as Kavanagh, Muldoon, Kinsella, and McGuckian, and as it is found in the work of James Joyce and John McGahern. What most distinguishes this luminous collection is its author's