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"All artists have doubts and anxieties. What are yours? Managing procrastination, anxiety, and creative blocks? Knowing how to trust your work? Dealing with other people? Balancing the need to push through to the end of a work while keeping your health and sanity? Handling rejection... and your own success? Dale Trumbore has faced each of these issues as a composer who achieved her own definition of success by age 30. Staying Composed: Overcoming...
3) A good fall
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
An anthology presents detailed pieces illuminating the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America, from a lonely composer who takes comfort in a parakeet's song to a group of children who want to change their names.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Chronicles the experience of a talented composer who was on the verge of earning his Ph.D. when he received a devastating cancer diagnosis, discussing how a course of full radiation and a bone marrow transplant left him greedy for life.
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Publisher
distributed by RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate the murder of Midsomer Mow farmer Alex Preston and its possible connection to a local group of Druids.
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Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a psychologically disastrous week of perfectionist repair and maintenance.
10) Short trip home
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Publisher
Sony Classical
Pub. Date
p1999
Physical Desc
1 CD (64 min., 46 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
11) The snow queen
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A heartbroken man turns to religion after seeing a vision in the sky above Central Park while his musician brother takes drugs he thinks will help him compose a ballad for his seriously ill wife
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Continue your study of the Hammerklavier, focusing on the paradoxical fourth movement fugue, composed seemingly without limits or limitations. The Hammerklavier has been called "monstrous and immeasurable," a sonata like no other. With it, Beethoven opened the door to a new expressive world.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Explores the unlikely bond between the famous Austrian composer and his pet starling, providing an unexpected window into human-animal friendships, music, and the nature of creative inspiration.
18) Night music
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Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the protégé of her father, a renowned composer.
20) Summer bird blue
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.
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