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When three noisy, mischievous rising stars of a British boy band come to Los Angeles to make their first album, they stay in the home of a record producer and her seventh-grade daughter, a talented but painfully shy singer-songwriter, urged by her best friend to step into the spotlight.
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This episode of The Green Interview features Scott Macmillan and Jennyfer Brickenden. Macmillan is one of Canada's most esteemed composers and musical figures and Brickenden is his partner, business manager, organizer, librettist and wife. Behind the scenes, she plays an integral part in Macmillan's creative process. His deep love for the Celtic music of Nova Scotia led him to compose Celtic-classical crossover music for the Scott Macmillan Sextet...
63) Becoming Bach
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Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
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"This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary, half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman)...
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Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top-40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award,...
71) Igor Stravinsky
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The life story of the Russian composer known for his musical innovations.
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Chronicles the life of Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the musical "Hamilton," and details his early life, acting and writing career, accomplishments, and influences. Highlights the creation and success of "Hamilton." Includes black-and-white illustrations, a timeline, a glossary, and additional resources.
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With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs "Angel from Montgomery," "Sam Stone," and "Paradise" to the classic country music parody "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," John Prine is a songwriter's songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has created critically acclaimed albums—John Prine (one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time), Bruised Orange, and The Missing Years—and earned many
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