Author: Humphrey Burton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783274816
Category : Broadcasters
Languages : en
Pages : 631
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Sir Humphrey Burton is one of Britain's most influential post-war music and arts broadcasters. Witty, humorous and full of humanity, Burton's account presents us with never before recorded perspectives on the world of British cultural broadcasting and classical music. Burton worked with such outstanding directing talents as Ken Russell and John Schlesinger, before becoming the BBC's Head of Music and the Arts. Already in the 1960s, in conversations with Glenn Gould for instance, Burton helped to create innovative ways of presenting music to new audiences. Following Sir David Frost's call to LWT/ITV, Burton rose to prominence with presenting the award-winning arts series Aquarius (1970-1975). The early 1970s saw the beginning of Burton's long association with Leonard Bernstein. Burton was at hand filming the maestro's educational programs, as well as concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic. Unforgettable are his chronicles of Bernstein's last years, culminating in a worldwide broadcast of the conductor's Berlin Freedom Concert after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Burton's gift for communicating music turned him into a celebrated Bernstein biographer. With multi award-winning television programmes to his name, such as the BBC's Young Musician of the Year, Burton left an indelible mark on Britain's music and arts broadcasting history. Sir Humphrey Burton offers us many encounters with twentieth century classical music's superstars and former broadcasting colleagues. What transpires is a creative mind at work that never lost sight of the demand that the appropriate presentation of music can only go hand-in-hand with a deep understanding of music itself. This long-awaited autobiography is a must-read for classical musical enthusiasts and those fascinated by some of the twentieth century's star performers. It also offers unique insights into the history of music, the BBC and arts broadcasting in twentieth-century Britain.
In My Own Time
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time
Author: Gilbert Burnet
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time
Author: Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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History of His Own Time
Author: Gilbert Burnet
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Memoirs of His Own Time
Author: comte Mathieu Dumas
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Posthumous Memoirs of his own time. By Sir N. W. Wraxall ... Second edition
Author: Sir Nathaniel William WRAXALL
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Memoirs of His Own Time
Author: Alexander Graydon
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The Invention of Solitude
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571266746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571266746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.
Jefferson in His Own Time
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609381203
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man, quite unlike the solemn statesman so often limned in biographies. To friends and enemies alike he was the model of a republican gentleman, profoundly knowledgeable in philosophy and natural history, able to converse in several languages, and capable of great wit but contemptuous of ceremony and fancy dress. Through these excerpts, we can see the nation’s third president as his family knew him—a loving husband, father, and grandfather—and as his peers did, as a tireless public servant with a fondness for tall tales.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609381203
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man, quite unlike the solemn statesman so often limned in biographies. To friends and enemies alike he was the model of a republican gentleman, profoundly knowledgeable in philosophy and natural history, able to converse in several languages, and capable of great wit but contemptuous of ceremony and fancy dress. Through these excerpts, we can see the nation’s third president as his family knew him—a loving husband, father, and grandfather—and as his peers did, as a tireless public servant with a fondness for tall tales.
Historical Memoirs of my own Time ... Second edition, etc
Author: Sir Nathaniel William WRAXALL
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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