Anthony F Kemp It is generally accepted that exceptionally skilled people in society, such as airline pilots and brain surgeons, have significantly different personalities from those of the general population....

Avraham Arieh TrugmanThe Mystical Power of Music

Alan BlackwoodA colorfully illustrated guide for children to classical music features sections explaining the history of the orchestra, presenting the individual instruments, and showing a day in the life of...

TE Carhart At first glance, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is simply an autobiography covering the author's blissful years in Paris. This is actually something much rarer and more original:...

Norman Lebrecht Two boys are growing up in wartime London. Martin is an only child, imprisoned in swottish loneliness. Then Dovidl enters his home, a refugee violinist from Warsaw. 'I...

Willa CatherPerhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape....

EL KonigsburgMEET THE SOULS-- Noah, who quite by accident was best man at the wedding of Ethan's grandmother and Nadia's grandfather-- Nadia, a hybrid with a halo of red hair,...

Harold C Schonberg The Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" music critic provides anecdotal accounts of the lives and times of thirty-nine musical superstars--from the castrate to Pavarotti and Horowitz October...

Daniel J. LevitinWhether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful...

Gergely Hubai A film is nearly finished and ready to make its way into theaters, when one or more of its prime movers producer, director, studio brass decides that it...

Jimmy Wayne* NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER* Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station...

John Williams (Composer) (Piano Solo Songbook). Beautiful piano solo arrangements of nine pieces from John Williams' Oscar-nominated score for Steven Spielberg's moving war epic. Songs: The Auction * Bringing Joey...