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Description not available.Six profiles of classical musicians who are fighting to keep their music relevant in the modern era focus on cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Midori, singer Phyllis Curtin, the Juilliard String Quartet, composer Gunther Schuller, and conductor Robert Spano. American musical culture. AUTHOR: Andrew L. Pincus
PUBLISHER: Northeastern University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Road Home by Elizabeth Thomas
The story of how Eliza Thomas, a middle-aged Boston spinster, buys a Vermont cabin and leaves her urban life behind. AUTHOR: Elizabeth Thomas
PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Twenty Years A-Growing by George Thomson, Maurice O'Sullivan, Moya L. Davies
Description not available.This memoir shares the author's childhood growing up on the Great Blasket, a Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland AUTHOR: George Thomson, Maurice O'Sullivan, Moya L. Davies
PUBLISHER: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Benjamin Franklin by Jesse Lemisch
Description not available.Essays by Franklin discuss scientific experiments, inventions, politics, and life, and accompany his account of his childhood, education, and accomplishments, as well as additional writings from Franklin's wife and son. Reprint. AUTHOR: Jesse Lemisch
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Royal Blood by Bertram Fields
Description not available.A modern-day lawyer uses his investigative tools to solve one of the great mysteries of English history--the murders of King Richard III's nephews. Reprint. AUTHOR: Bertram Fields
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Alice Tully by Albert Fuller
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center is one of the most famous performing spaces in New York City, and the woman behind it was one of the city`s most private philanthropists. This intimate memoir is an engaging encounter with a gracious and influential supporter of the arts. Albert Fuller`s dose friendship with Miss Tully over a period of more than thirty years allows him unique insight into her eventful life and colorful personality. The daughter of a Corning heiress and a state senator, Miss Tully trained as a singer in Europe before turning her love of music toward enlightened philanthropy. Chair of the board of directors for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for nearly twenty-five years, she also served on the boards of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and The Juilliard School, and as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Museum of Modern Art. For her cultural contributions, New York City awarded her the Handel Medallion, and France conferred on her the three steps of the National Order of Merit as well as the prestigious Legion of Honor. A charming woman whose activities influenced the musical tastes of New York City and the nation, Alice Tully reveals herself here for the first time. Through this privileged portrait we discover an individual whose public generosity was matched by private courage, a quick intelligence, unfailing social grace, and a fierce and fearless love for life. AUTHOR: Albert Fuller
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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