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The Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs by The Walt Disney Corporation

October 20, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Without regular access to interlibrary loan, the Music square on the Bingo board caused me great strife… none of the music related books I wanted to read were available at my local branches and therefore were off limits to me. Then, I stared at my bookshelf and realized I had a book about music sitting right there, in fact, it’s been living on my bookshelves for over 25 years. I’m a Disney fan, and I find the history surrounding the company interesting (why else would […]

An Opera Story that Doesn’t Include Phantoms

The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

October 14, 2020 by Ale 2 Comments

I will start this review by saying I DNFed this book at about a hundred pages, but not because I didn’t like it. I really liked it. But I’ve realized I am a bad reader on digital platforms. I tried Hoopla for the first time, hoping to fill the void that’s been the suspension on our county-wide library lending program. I borrowed Queen of the Night from Hoopla and had an immensely hard time reading it on my computer screen. Which seems ridiculous since I […]

Beautiful music together (CBR12Bingo 2: Music)

Something Wonderful by Todd S Purdum

October 7, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

When Rodgers and Hammerstein collaborated with Irving Berlin, Berlin was worried about credit and quite possibly the reputation of the other two, fond of quoting his couplet “There goes time with your last year’s prize/ Whittling it down to its proper size.” Which, of course, seems ridiculous given that Berlin, Rodgers, and Hammerstein are still titans half a century after their heyday, but it’s nice to see that even the mighty have their anxieties. The book follows Rodgers from his early days writing music with […]

This is your brain on music

Musicophilia, Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

September 27, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Music BINGO: Red, How-To, UnCannon, Roaring 20s, Music A 42-year old orthopedic surgeon is hit by lightning and suddenly develops an insatiable passion for piano music. An elderly man with semantic amnesia bursts into song at the slightest provocation. An elderly woman has lived her life unable to “hear” music, which manifests itself to her mind as an intolerable cacophony. These are just a handful of the real individuals we meet in Musicopophilia, Oliver Sacks’s exploration of the interactions between music and the […]

“We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run” (double Bingo)

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

September 24, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR12 Bingo: Music Official book description: In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid […]

I Am Used to Going Astray

Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge

September 13, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

One year before his death in 1828 at the age of 31, Franz Schubert composed the song cycle Winterreise, 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller set to music for voice and piano. Ian Bostridge, a tenor who has performed Winterreise many times, shares his obsession and fascination with this seminal work of the Lied genre in this book. In every one of the 24 chapters one song is discussed in depth, and the wide variety of topics touched on by the author is simply astounding. Much […]

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