Títulos en Compositores y músicos

Rossini fu un grande musicista del XIX secolo, che a vent'anni era già ricercato e famoso. Il "cigno di Pesaro" ha continuato ad attirare l'interesse dei lettori di pari passo con la grande popolarità a teatro delle sue opere, dal "Barbiere di Siviglia" alla "Cenerentola, al "Guglielmo Tell".

Holly Knight’s singular music career included crafting a good part of the soundtrack to the MTV '80s with mega-hits for Tina Turner (“The Best”), Pat Benatar (“Love Is a Battlefield”), and Patty Smyth (“The Warrior”)—songs that celebrated female empowerment and shaped pop and rock for years to come.

The Music Man stands as one of the greatest achievements in American musical theatre, but few know about its rocky beginnings and the against-all-odds success story of its creator, Meredith Willson. Mark Cabaniss steps back into the Golden Age of Broadway and brings to life the origins of this classic show, the music behind it, and the unlikely story of its creator. Interweaving behind-the-scenes accounts of people who worked with Willson, Cabaniss looks at his long and unusual career as a composer, conductor, radio personality, and flutist.

Inizia con un formicolio nella parte destra del corpo. E una strana stanchezza. L’equilibrio che si fa precario. Quando, mesi dopo i primi sintomi, arriva la diagnosi di sclerosi multipla, Marco ha trent’anni e una carriera da tenore appena avviata. Come gestire i concerti e le audizioni in giro per il mondo senza sapere come ci si sveglierà domani? Marco mantiene segreta la sua nuova, scomoda compagna di viaggio. Almeno fino al 2013, quando, nella prima apparizione di Sintomi di felicità, decide di rivelarla al mondo.

All the varieties of power—star, political, sexual, criminal and emotional—are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra and the Mafia. Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA and big-city police departments, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal Sinatra’s pact with the Mob in shocking detail. With additional evidence from decades of investigations and testimony, they expose Sinatra’s lifelong association with the Mafia, which he always denied, and its deadly collateral damage.

Un viaje del trópico colombiano al Río de La Plata y, de allí, hasta la ‘Honestidad Brutal’ de uno de los más importantes juglares del rock en español, Andrés Calamaro, fue emprendido por el periodista musical Diego Londoño a través de este audiolibro.

Il 18 settembre 1970 lasciava questa terra uno dei più grandi rappresentanti della musica del Novecento. Un evento, la morte di Jimi Hendrix, a Londra, che sarà a lungo esibito e strumentalizzato, oggetto di false informazioni, ipotesi fantasiose e versioni distorte. Ancora oggi qualcosa affiora, di tanto in tanto, nelle cronache e nei libri di storia, come l'overdose per droga spacciata quale causa del decesso.

Classified has always marched to the beat of his own drum. His visceral lyrics and authentic voice have echoed the aspirations and disappointments of a whole generation. He is an artist whose ear is always close to the ground. Classified defied the industry expectation that you must live in L.A. or New York City or Toronto to make it as a rap artist. His life off the beaten track informs all his work. He has literally won every award possible for a recording artist in Canada. He has won rap recording of the year and has also been producer of the year and studio engineer of the year.

Ci sono vite straordinarie che recano dal principio un inconfondibile segno artistico. Sono romanzi già prima di essere scritti. La vita di Pino Donaggio, antidivo per eccellenza, genio senza sregolatezza, discreto e misurato, musicista completo, violinista, compositore e cantautore allergico ai musicarelli, inguaribile "ultimo romantico", non assomiglia a nessun'altra. Nato nella Laguna veneziana, a Burano, e cresciuto nei pressi di Rialto, Pino Donaggio coltiva la passione per la musica sin da subito e, dimostrando uno straordinario e precoce talento, entra nel Conservatorio di Venezia.

Johann Sebastian Bach today has a reputation as the Godfather of Western European music, as a fountainhead of classical music theory and the creator of some of the greatest works the world has ever produced. Better known as a keyboard virtuoso, Bach was not regarded as a genius in his day, so how did this headstrong and belligerent but ambitious young musician become so extremely productive? What were his influences? How did he end up in jail and what did he get up to in Café Zimmerman?

When we think of Ludwig van Beethoven images of a stormy and passionate but tortured genius are brought to mind, alongside the transformative effect of his work on musical history. All of these things are true, but no artist lives in a vacuum, and even music that opens a portal onto 'the infinite realm of the spirit' has its wider context.

Tchaikovsky declared that Mozart was 'full of divine beauty', and Schubert's wonder at the 'countless images of a brighter and better world' that Mozart was able to conjure up through his music knew no bounds. Many of us carry the image of Mozart as a transcendent genius, but what do we really know about his life and career, and indeed his music? This entertaining and informative biography takes us from Mozart's beginnings as a child prodigy to his greatest successes and cruellest setbacks.

Famous today for his Trois Gymnopédies, Erik Satie was an eccentric and solitary figure who was nevertheless viewed by some as a prophet of French musical modernism, his striking creativity championed by Ravel and Debussy.

When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache. Maybe We’ll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony.

An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mixing together everything from Gypsy music to Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, chanson française, and South American folk melodies. In Canada, her album La Llorona won the Juno Award and went gold, and its follow-up, The Living Road, won a BBC World Music Award. Tragically, de Sela succumbed to breast cancer in 2010 at the age of thirty-seven after recording her final album, Lhasa.

After thirty-five years as an “on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,” poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late and Soon is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her youth. In tandem, she reflects on a previously unexamined musical past: a decade spent at Quebec’s Conservatoire de Musique, studying clarinet—ostensibly headed for a career as an orchestral musician, but already a writer at heart.

A volte, un solo momento può cambiare tutto. Basta una giornata di sole, la campagna che brilla, la voglia di dedicarsi a lavori di bricolage, lavorare al legno, a un vecchio carro che un tempo lontano era stato un calesse. L'incidente è improvviso. Il sangue, poi il dolore, la paura, lo shock. La corsa verso l'ospedale. La mano squarciata. La possibilità di non recuperarne l'uso. Ma che vuol dire perdere la funzionalità di una mano per un musicista? La stessa mano che ha sempre usato per suonare, comporre, creare?

Sanremo, 26 gennaio 1967. La Riviera è pronta a ospitare il Festival della Canzone Italiana: i giornalisti già parlano di un'edizione rivoluzionaria, perché sul palco si sfideranno la vecchia guardia guidata da Claudio Villa e Domenico Modugno e le voci nuove, come I Giganti, Little Tony, Lucio Dalla. E Luigi Tenco. Tenco è più conosciuto come autore che come interprete ed è lì perché vuole che il grande pubblico impari ad apprezzarlo: ha deciso che d'ora in poi nelle sue canzoni parlerà di problemi sociali.

De amor a primera vista. Así será la relación de cualquier lector con este libro, que recoge apenas una mínima parte de lo que es el Universo Chavela Vargas. Belleza, sabiduría, inteligencia, simpatía, sensibilidad. De todo eso estuvo llena esta mujer extraordinaria y todo eso, y mucho más, regaló al mundo porque era tanto lo que en ella habitaba, que después de cantar o de hablar o de simplemente vivir, iba dejándole a los otros las puertas abiertas para que cada cual encontrara las verdades que le correspondían.

"LA VITA OGGI È DURA PER UNA DONNA CHE CONTA." E se lo dice M¥SS KETA, la Diva definitiva della musica italiana, c’è da crederci. Ma niente paura, questo libro è qui per aiutarvi. Tra ricordi di festini memorabili e incontri licenziosi con le massime autorità della politica e del mondo dello spettacolo, la nostra Dea mascherata rivela a tutti noi comuni mortali gli amori (e gli odi) che costellano il suo oscuro passato e i segreti che l’hanno resa celebre, invincibile e immune al tempo che passa.