Gerald Moore: 11 books

In questo libro, pubblicato nel 1943, Gerald Moore presentava al mondo per la prima volta la figura, sino a quel momento trascurata, del pianista accompagnatore, usando provocatoriamente il termine “Unashamed”, ovvero “sfacciato, privo di vergogna”. Una rivendicazione, per una volta senza...

I cicli di Schubert sono anche viaggi: una lunga trasferta invernale (Winterreise), una camminata seguendo il corso del ruscello (Die schöne Müllerin), un volo di ricognizione sul futuro di musica e letteratura (Schwanengesang). Spesso, dunque, sono stati descritti in termini epici (avventure dello...

Before Americans got their news from television, they got it from LIFE, the weekly magazine that set the standard for photojournalism. In LIFE Story Gerald Moore—a writer and editor who worked at the magazine in the last glory years before TV made it obsolete—recalls the dizzying excitement and...

The only rule I observed when selecting my fifty songs was that they should be interesting; interesting either for their intrinsic worth or for the problems they pose for the singer or the accompanist or both partners. The reader who is indulgent enough to imagine there is any benefit to be reaped...

'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one...

This book provides the reader with a complete and concise introduction to rheumatic illness. While rheumatic disease often manifests itself in conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system, the authors stress that a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach is needed for diagnosis, to aid understanding of rheumatic disease with multisystem involve

Dragons have inflamed our hearts and imagination for centuries, making them some of our most enduring heroes and villains. Who hasn’t dreamed of finding a dragon’s hoard and matching wits with the fantastical creature with everything on the line? These seventeen stories will delight and entertain...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...

New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...

Manual de reumatología proporciona una introducción completa y concisa a la patología reumática. Para favorecer el entendimiento de este tipo de enfermedades que tienen un involucro sistémico es necesario integrar un enfoque multidisciplinario y comprensivo, aun cuando estos padecimientos se...