The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera
Title | The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781901223415 |
The author's rewriting of opera stories from seven different composers combined with illustrations and a select discography, introduces to children some of the great operatic themes of the last 200 years.
The Random House Book of Opera Stories
Title | The Random House Book of Opera Stories PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780679893158 |
Capture the excitement of a night at the opera with this stunning collection of eight favorite opera stories, each illustrated by a different artist.The Magic FluteAidaCarmenThe Cunning Little VixenTurandotCinderellaHansel & GretelThe Love for Three Oranges
The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories
Title | The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Yolen |
Publisher | Barefoot Books |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Ballets |
ISBN | 1841482293 |
Retellings of seven of the world's greatest ballet stories.
Dancing Barefoot
Title | Dancing Barefoot PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Thompson |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1569769214 |
Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock 'n' roll era, a performer whose audience and appeal reach far beyond the parameters of rock. An acclaimed poet, a respected artist, and a figurehead for many liberal political causes, Patti Smith soared from an ugly-duckling childhood in postwar New Jersey to become queen of the New York arts scene in the 1970s. This book traces the brilliant trajectory of her career, including the fifteen reclusive years she spent in Detroit in the 1980s and '90s, as well as her triumphant return to New York. But it is primarily the story of a performer growing up in New York City in the early and mid-1970s. Dancing Barefoot is a measured, accurate, and enthusiastic account of Smith's career. Guided by interviews with those who have known her—including Ivan Kral, Tom Verlaine, Richard Lloyd, John Cale, and Jim Carroll—it relies most of all on Patti's own words. This is Patti's story, told as she might have seen it, had she been on the outside looking in.
Sing Me a Story
Title | Sing Me a Story PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Rosenberg |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1996-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780500278734 |
An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
Shakespeare's Storybook
Title | Shakespeare's Storybook PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Ryan |
Publisher | Barefoot Books |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2006-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781905236862 |
Their love grew. But they dared not tell anyone about it, even family or friends. The Hill of Roses
The Chiffon Trenches
Title | The Chiffon Trenches PDF eBook |
Author | André Leon Talley |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-05-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0593129261 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments. “The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—Manolo Blahnik NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Fortune • Garden & Gun • New York Post During André Leon Talley’s first magazine job, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily, befriending fashion's most important designers (Halston, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. There, he eventually became creative director, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue’s masthead, André also ascended, and soon became the most influential man in fashion. The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion. Woven throughout the book are also André’s own personal struggles that impacted him over the decades, along with intimate stories of those he turned to for inspiration (Diana Vreeland, Diane von Fürstenberg, Lee Radziwill, to name a few), and of course his Southern roots and faith, which guided him since childhood. The result is a highly compelling read that captures the essence of a world few of us will ever have real access to, but one that we all want to know oh so much more about.