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Discovering David Bowie

Discovering David Bowie

John Mendelssohn

By the time John Mendelssohn was finished with him, he was an obscure English folkie with an upcoming Rolling Stone profile, and a newfound appreciation for The Stooges and their anarchic frontman Iggy Pop.
CMJ New Music Monthly

CMJ New Music Monthly

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... Pete watched it all on TV. (DS). I,. CARAMBA. by John Mendelssohn (Rhino). reads. '70s rock-criticism legend John Mendelssohn was a candle that burned too brightly and thus burned out too fast. Telling all in this overdue paperback and ...
Sibling Relations And The Transformations Of European ...

Sibling Relations And The Transformations Of European ...

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“Briefe aus der Verlobungszeit,” edited by Martina Helmig and Annette Maurer. In Fanny Hensel, geb. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Das Werk, edited by Martina Helmig , pp. 139–163. Munich: 1997. Mendelssohn, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.
Protocols of Justice (2 vol. set): The Pinkas of the Metz ...

Protocols of Justice (2 vol. set): The Pinkas of the Metz ...

Jay R. Berkovitz

See Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study ( Philadelphia, 1973), 470–474; David Sorkin, Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment (Berkeley,1996),104–107;andmorerecently,DanielB. Schwartz ...
Journal of the American Liszt Society

Journal of the American Liszt Society

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26 See Jose Antonio Bowen, "Mendelssohn and Hegel: The Aesthetics of Musical Content" Studi Musical! (1999, No. 1), 243-77. 27 See Bowen, " Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner as Conductors:The Origins of 'Fidelity to the Composer'.
Waiting For Kate Bush

Waiting For Kate Bush

John Mendelssohn

This is the b format version of the critically acclaimed book on the singer.
The Kinks kronikles

The Kinks kronikles

John Mendelssohn

Traces the history of the English rock group, the Kinks, and discusses the development of the band's musical style
When Times Are Tough, the Tough Try Human Trafficking

When Times Are Tough, the Tough Try Human Trafficking

John Mendelssohn

Like millions of other Americans, I suddenly found myself unemployed after the economic downturn of 2008.
Gigantic: The Story Of Frank Black And The Pixies

Gigantic: The Story Of Frank Black And The Pixies

John Mendelssohn

Culminating with the group's 2004 reformation, this is the definitive story of The Pixies.
Stopping Led Zeppelin: How I Saved Rock and Roll

Stopping Led Zeppelin: How I Saved Rock and Roll

John Mendelssohn

In 1969. a new British band with an oddly self-effacing name were poised to become international sensations...at least until a brave Los Angeles college student, armed only with an electric typewriter and a love of melody, stopped them in ...
Ray Davies: A Complicated Life

Ray Davies: A Complicated Life

Johnny Rogan

Robert Wace, quoted in John Mendelssohn, The Kinks Kronikles (New York: Quill , 1985), p. 29. “We were mercly considering..." Grenville Collins, email to the author: 23 September 2012. Collins adds, somewhat obliquely: “The overt reason  ...
Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche

Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche

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... JAMES J. SHEEHAN Musical Historicism and the Transcendental Foundations of Community: Mendelssohn's Lobgesang and the "Christian- German" Cultural Politics of Frederick William IV 183 JOHN TOEWS Broken Vessels: Aestheticism  ...
Waiting for Kate Bush

Waiting for Kate Bush

John Mendelssohn

In Waiting for Kate Bush - an unusual hybrid of satirical novel and music biography - the reader will not only laugh aloud at Herskovits' attempt to make sense of his life in an alien culture, but also learn in detail what Kate Bush - known ...
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Thomas M. Kitts

John Mendelssohn, The Kinks Kronikles (New York: Quill, 1985), 105. 37. Rogan, Complete Guide, 71. Kink, 119. Qtd. in Cott, 31. Qtd. in Cott, 31. Dir. Vanessa Engle, BBC, 1995. Qtd. in Cott, 31, italics his. Qtd. in Timothy Crouse, “The British  ...
Mendelssohn:

Mendelssohn:

R. Larry Todd

A portrait of the distinguished composer, musician, and artist draws on his correspondence, diaries, and creative works to analyze his most distinctive achievements as well as his lesser-known pieces, exploring his religious heritage, role ...
Songs without Words (Complete)

Songs without Words (Complete)

Felix Mendelssohn

Maurice Hinson has skillfully researched and edited these works back to their original form and provides a very informative introduction, which includes many detailed suggestions for a stylistic interpretation and performance, as well as ...
Collective Volume of Scientific Papers:

Collective Volume of Scientific Papers:

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Mendelssohn. R and C. Roy. 1996. Comprehensive Ocean Data Extraction Users Guide. U.S. Dep. Comm., S'OAA Tech. Memo. ... Moore. D.W., P. Hisard, J.P McCreary, J. Merle, J.J. O'Brien, J. Picaut, J-M Verstraete and C. Wunsch. 1978.
The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem: Environmental ...

The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem: Environmental ...

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Mendelssohn, R. and C. Roy 1996 Comprehensive Ocean Data Extraction Users Guide. US. ... Moore, D. W., P. Hisard, J .P. McCreary, J. Merle, J.J. O'Brien, J. Picaut, J .M. Verstraete and C. Wunsch 1978 Equatorial adjustment in the eastern  ...
BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine

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Opera Factory, Nicholas Kok (c), David Freeman (p) 26, 28 City of Birmingham SO Simon Rattle (c), Elena Prokina (soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (bass). Shostakovich, Bruckner 27 Alicia de Larrocha (pno). Mendelssohn, Granados, Schumann ...
Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past: ...

Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past: ...

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Victor Kofi Agawu has offered a table of sixty-one of “the more common topics” at work in the “classic repertoire,” under the heading “The Universe of Topic for Classical Music,” which includes five that are invariably vocal by nature—“aria style ...
The Double Life of Liliane

The Double Life of Liliane

Lily Tuck

A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through ...
Trombone: Its History and Music, 1697-1811

Trombone: Its History and Music, 1697-1811

D. M. Guion

Forthcoming titles will include works on musical biography, the music of Stravinsky and Mendelssohn, and a musical festschrift honoring Gwynn S. McPeek. The editors also welcome interdisciplinary studies, ethnomusicological works and ...
A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the ...

A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the ...

Lily E. Hirsch

See Klára Móricz, Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 178. The four-note motive was also utilized by Bach, Froberger, Mendelssohn, and Handel, ...
How to Prepare for the Afterlife: A New Birth of Freedom

How to Prepare for the Afterlife: A New Birth of Freedom

Sol Weiss M.D.

This prodigy, Jay Greenberg, is matched with the greatest composers in the history of music, similar to Mozart, Mendelssohn and SaintSaens. He is considered to be the greatest talent in 200 years. Jay Greenberg says that music just fills his ...
Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied

Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied

Yonatan Malin

Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Das Werk, edited by Martina Helmig, 51–57. Munich: edition text + kritik, 1997. McCreless, Patrick. “Rethinking Contemporary Music Theory.” In Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture, edited by David Schwarz, ...
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics

Khrman John Г. Fvaus John P. Haie Jobo Г. Kelsey John 1'. I.evy John P. bevy John f. McOevitt John P. Prit'uld John I'. Blelght, (sunk) . John I*. SpeiUlen John P. West John Q. Adams.. John Qnincy Adams John U. Burinore .lohu R. Brick John ...
Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

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... John • Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John - Wilson, John, the younger Wilson, John Edwards Wilson, John Gray - Wilson, John Jowitt - Wilson, John Nathaniel Wilson, John Richard Shepherd.
Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Daniel Orrells

39–57; Miriam Leonard, Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2012); Miriam Leonard, 'Freud and tragedy: Oedipus and sex: antiqvity and its legacy ...
The American Shropshire Sheep Record

The American Shropshire Sheep Record

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... Rodger Andrew Mason John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John ...

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