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Author: Melissa Müller Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250007410 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 366
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Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Author: Melissa Müller Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250007410 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 366
Book Description
Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Author: Melissa Müller Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1466801921 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 412
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The story of Holocaust survivor and pianist Alice Herz-Sommer: “A miraculous journey of mother and son for whom music provided strength and nourishment.” —Kirkus Reviews Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe. But as the Nazis rose to power, her world crumbled. In 1942, her mother was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and vanished. In 1943, Alice, her husband, and their six-year-old son were sent there, too. In the midst of horror, music, especially Chopin’s Etudes, was Alice’s salvation. Theresienstadt was a “show camp” —a living slice of Nazi propaganda created to convince outsiders that the Jews were being treated humanely. In more than a hundred concerts, Alice gave her fellow prisoners hope in a time of suffering. Written with the cooperation of Alice Herz-Sommer, who contributes a foreword, Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki’s Alice’s Piano is the first time her story has been told. “Most moving is the story throughout of her loving bond with her son and how she saved him. No politics, intolerance, or self-righteousness, no talk of revenge, always the rigor and joy of music.” —Booklist (starred review) Published in the UK as A Garden of Eden in Hell
Author: Caroline Stoessinger Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0812992814 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 258
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The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism. Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She had seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and along the way coming into contact with some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time. As a child in Prague, she spent weekends and holidays in the company of Franz Kafka (whom she knew as “Uncle Franz”), and Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, and Rainer Maria Rilke were friendly with her mother. When Alice moved to Israel after the war, Golda Meir attended her house concerts, as did Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Isaac Stern. Until the end of her life Alice, who lived in London, practiced piano for hours every day. Despite her imprisonment in Theresienstadt and the murders of her mother, husband, and friends by the Nazis, and much later the premature death of her son, Alice was victorious in her ability to live a life without bitterness. She credited music as the key to her survival, as well as her ability to acknowledge the humanity in each person, even her enemies. A Century of Wisdom is the remarkable and inspiring story of one woman’s lifelong determination—in the face of some of the worst evils known to man—to find goodness in life. It is a testament to the bonds of friendship, the power of music, and the importance of leading a life of material simplicity, intellectual curiosity, and never-ending optimism. Praise for A Century of Wisdom “An instruction manual for a life well lived.”—The Wall Street Journal “As if her 108 years of experience alone were not enough to coax you, there is the overarching fact that draws people to Herz-Sommer’s story: She survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and is believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor.”—The Washington Post “I have rarely read a Holocaust survivor’s memoir as enriching and meaningful. Get Caroline Stoessinger’s book, A Century of Wisdom, telling Alice Herz-Sommer’s tale of her struggles and triumphs. You will feel rewarded.”—Elie Wiesel “A Century of Wisdom is a stately and elegant book about an artist who found deliverance in her passion for music. Caroline Stoessinger writes with a special purity, as though she were arranging pearls on a string of silk.”—Pat Conroy “As one of millions who fell in love on YouTube with Alice Herz-Sommer, a 108-year-old Holocaust survivor who plays the piano and greets each day with no hint of bitterness, I’m grateful to Caroline Stoessinger for writing a book that explains this mystery. You will be inspired by the story of Alice Herz-Sommer, who lives to teach us.”—Gloria Steinem “I walked on the cobblestones in Prague for thirty years wondering who might have walked on them before me: Kafka, Freud, Mahler. It feels like a miracle to have encountered, in Caroline Stoessinger’s wonderful book, Alice Herz-Sommer, who walked with them all—with a heart full of music.”—Peter Sis “A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.”—Itzhak Perlman
Author: Avril Lavigne Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1458441903 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 66
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(Piano Solo Songbook). Our folio for Disney's lauded live action/animated hit directed by Tim Burton matches the soundtrack, with piano solo arrangements of a dozen songs from Danny Elfman's score (Alice and Bayard's Journey * Alice Decides * Alice Escapes * Alice Reprise #4 * Alice Returns * Alice's Theme * Blood of the Jabberwocky * The Dungeon * Little Alice * Only a Dream * Proposal * The White Queen), plus the single "Alice" by Avril Lavigne. Includes eight eye-popping pages of full-color art from this visually stimulating film.
Author: Franya J. Berkman Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819571067 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 160
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Long-awaited biography of an African American avant-garde composer Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and Western art music. Her childhood experiences playing for African-American congregations in Detroit, the ecstatic and avant-garde improvisations she performed on the bandstand with her husband John Coltrane, and her religious pilgrimages to India reveal themselves on more than twenty albums of original music for the Impulse and Warner Brothers labels. In the late 1970s Alice Coltrane became a swami, directing an alternative spiritual community in Southern California. Exploring her transformation from Alice McLeod, Detroit church pianist and bebopper, to guru Swami Turiya Sangitananda, Monument Eternal illuminates her music and, in turn, reveals the exceptional fluidity of American religious practices in the second half of the twentieth century. Most of all, this book celebrates the hybrid music of an exceptional, boundary-crossing African-American artist.
Author: Alice Carli Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 1461656850 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 196
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This is a necessary reference for music librarians and composers who want to gain both specific skills and new perspectives on the central issues of binding and care.
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