Wild Harmonies

Wild Harmonies
Author: Hélène Grimaud
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Large type books
ISBN: 9780786292028

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A celebrated French pianist's poignant story of her journey from her early days as a student in Paris to her life as the founder of a wolf conservation center in upstate New York. A gifted pianist from a young age, Hilhne Grimaud made her first recording at the age of fifteen and won the French equivalent of a Grammy at sixteen. She is a classical music star whose concerts continue to draw sellout crowds all over Europe and North America. But it wasn't until she met her first wolf that she discovered there was something missing in her life. Late one night in 1991, Grimaud encountered a wolf-dog hybrid in Florida and felt an immediate, instinctual connection to the animal-one that the wolf also seemed to share. Determined to do what she could to protect this threatened species, she committed her time and resources to becoming certified to found her own wolf preserve on the grounds of her home in New York State. Today, the master pianist acts as a tireless advocate for wolves, a species she believes has been unfairly demonized throughout history. In turn, the animals have given her a sense of freedom that she has never before experienced, even as an artist. In a beautifully rendered personal story that weaves the tale of a musical prodigy's rise to stardom with one of an animal lover learning to communicate on a level as primal as music, Hilhne Grimaud touches, astonishes, and delights with her remarkable insight and passion.

Wild Harmonies

Wild Harmonies
Author: Hélène Grimaud
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Pianists
ISBN: 9781594482663

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Success as a classically trained pianist came early for HŽl ne Grimaud, who made her first recording at age fifteen. But in the following years, despite sellout concerts around the world, she still felt as if something was missing-until an extraordinary meeting with a she-wolf changed her perspective and her world.

Harmonies of Nature

Harmonies of Nature
Author: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1815
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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Banwell hill

Banwell hill
Author: William Lisle Bowles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1855
Genre:
ISBN:

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Wolf Nation

Wolf Nation
Author: Brenda Peterson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0306824949

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In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary citizens are fighting to bring them back to the wild. Peterson, an eloquent voice in the battle for twenty years, makes the powerful case that without wolves, not only will our whole ecology unravel, but we'll lose much of our national soul.

Complete Works

Complete Works
Author: Thomas Smyth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 830
Release: 1912
Genre: Presbyterianism
ISBN:

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Mountain Harmonies

Mountain Harmonies
Author: Howard L. Smith
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2004
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780826331441

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"This book is about adventures in nature, primarily in the mountains, and about how wildness touches the very depth of our being. The experiences I relive in this book occurred principally in the mountains of New Mexico and bordering wild areas of Colorado, but also in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Montana, as well as Washington in the Pacific Northwest. Most of the events happened as I was walking, hiking, camping, and backpacking"--Pref.

Suspended Music

Suspended Music
Author: Lothar von Falkenhausen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1994-03-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520911079

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The Chinese made the world's first bronze chime-bells, which they used to perform ritual music, particularly during the Shang and Zhou dynasties (ca. 1700-221 B.C.). Lothar von Falkenhausen's rich and detailed study reconstructs how the music of these bells—the only Bronze Age instruments that can still be played—may have sounded and how it was conceptualized in theoretical terms. His analysis and discussion of the ritual, political, and technical aspects of this music provide a unique window into ancient Chinese culture. This is the first interdisciplinary perspective on recent archaeological finds that have transformed our understanding of ancient Chinese music. Of great significance to the understanding of Chinese culture in its crucial formative stage, it provides a fresh point of departure for exploring later Asian musical history and offers great possibilities for comparisons with music worldwide.

My Nine Lives

My Nine Lives
Author: Leon Fleisher
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0767931378

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My Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era—an inspiring tale of courage, compassion, and triumph over outstanding odds. At the peak of his career, celebrated pianist Leon Fleisher suddenly lost the use of two fingers on his right hand. Miraculously, at the age of sixty-six, he was diagnosed with focal dystonia, and learned to manage it through a combination of physical therapy and experimental Botox injections. In 2003 Fleisher returned to Carnegie Hall to give his first two-handed performance in over three decades and brought down the house. With his coauthor, celebrated music critic Anne Midgette, Fleisher reveals here for the first time the depression that threatened to engulf him as his condition worsened, and the sheer love of music that rescued him from complete self-destruction.

Obermann

Obermann
Author: Etienne Pivert de Senancour
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1901
Genre:
ISBN:

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