A smart, gritty examination of the lives of touring musicians Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath's brave second offering and follow-up to 2017's widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians - but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of a multi-member touring band. Told in two interwoven narratives that blur the lines...

"The memoirs of the legendary co-founder of the Beach Boys offer insights into his difficult relationship with his father, the women in his life, his parenting experiences, and the events that inspired his music,"--NoveList. "As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Brian Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that...

In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director in the history of the American theater (22 Tony Awards and counting), looks back over his 70-year (and counting!) career. Featuring original material from Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre, Prince provides a fresh, new perspective on his writing from the vantage point of today. Sense of Occasion gives an insider's recollection...

From Pee Wee Herman to John Lennon, sacramental wine to hard-drinkin' mamas, the Mississippi River to the Redwood trees, from marriage to marijuana, from Pirates to Jesus, from Spam and boogers to Uncle Sam, 'Ukulele Man' Tom Harker's poetic, funny, political, philosophical, and loving songs will touch you.

The gentlest, the most loving, the most tormented of men, Robert Schumann gave to the world some of its richest and most individual music. There was scarcely a genre he didn't touch, and none in which he didn't leave something beautiful, memorable, or original. Best known for his piano music, his songs, his chamber works and his symphonies, he was also an epoch-making essayist and critic, who managed at a stroke, and almost single-handedly, to put...

Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came to be seen by the leaders of the faltering anti-war movement as someone who was capable of reinvigorating it. The government was acutely aware of Lennon's power as well, seeing him as a viable threat to Nixon's reelection...

During his long, energetic life Ignaz Joseph Pleyel distinguished himself as a composer, publisher, and piano manufacturer. His distinctive musical language, combining Haydn's structural sophistication with the clarity, elegance, and lyricism of the Italian style he so admired, made him the most popular composer in Europe. Although many works eventually slipped into obscurity, successful revivals of his compositions in modern times have served to...

En pocos artistas el tiempo tiene la importancia que alcanza en Wagner. No sólo es decisivo en el compositor o en el teórico de la interpretación, sino también en el dramaturgo, que aprovecha la música para desestabilizar el drama, provocando la continua presencia del pasado y la anticipación del futuro. Con la excepción de Meistersinger –y no del todo–, tanto en la ópera romántica como en el drama musical el tiempo está –como decía...

The miraculous triumvirate of 1685 (Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, all born that year) made a curious threesome. The German Handel went to Italy and became the greatest composer of Italian operas, Bach stayed at home to be outshone by his son, while Scarlatti fled Italy to escape his father's fame and became Spain's greatest undercover flamenco guitarist − all without leaving the keyboard. Secretive to a fault, Scarlatti's life is as elusive as his...

Virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt was a key figure in the evolution of modern music. Most of his 700 compositions, which range from romantic impressionism to daring experimental pieces, were written for the piano. This survey by a well-known British composer and musicologist constitutes the most authoritative English-language study of Liszt's works. "Mr. Searle is himself a composer of progressive outlook and he thus speaks with authority. His book was...