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Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire.
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Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
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In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright.
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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
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The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
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France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
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For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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Paul Robeson: The Actor
by Sheila Evans
Price: Digital Download ($13.99)
Paul Robeson was a validictorian honor scholar, lawyer, writer, author, concert singer, humanitarian, linguist, and actor.
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Samuel Beckett
by Sherwin T. Wine
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Poet, novelist and playwright Beckett embodied a radical response to the outrageous events of two world wars.
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Aida: An Introduction to Verdi's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Price: Audio CD ($22.46)
Aida is one of the most popular operas ever written, a sumptuous work which has moments of great drama, but which reminds us in the end that it's all about people--the greatest love affairs and the greatest affairs of state cliff themselves in simple humanity.
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The History of Classical Music
by Richard Fawkes
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From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years...
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Keyboard Conversations: Mozart and Friends
by Jeffrey Siegel
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World renowned concert pianist and conductor Jeffrey Siegel takes listeners on an intimate journey with this introduction to classical music and its masters, which invites listeners to experience great works in a whole new way, hearing the music as never before.
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Keyboard Conversations: The Romance of the Piano
by Jeffrey Siegel
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World renowned concert pianist and conductor Jeffrey Siegel takes listeners on an intimate journey with this introduction to classical music and its masters, which invites listeners to experience great works in a whole new way, hearing the music as never before.
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Royal Courts of Europe
by Sherwin T. Wine
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When Mozart was born, Europe was dominated by wealthy and powerful monarchies, with their kings and aristocrats. What we call 'Classical Music' emerged in the royal courts of these kingdoms.
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Keyboard Conversations: The Romanticism of the Russian Soul
by Jeffrey Siegel
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World renowned concert pianist and conductor Jeffrey Siegel takes listeners on an intimate journey with this introduction to classical music and its masters, which invites listeners to experience great works in a whole new way, hearing the music as never before.
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Opera 101
by Fred Plotkin
Price: Audio CD ($108.00) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($39.95)
Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher and former performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the riches of opera, the fastest growing of all the performing arts.
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The History of Theatre
by David Timson
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Here is a diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre, from the first tragedies and comedies of Ancient Greece to the high-tech mega-musicals of the late 20th century...
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The Life and Works of Chopin
by Jeremy Siepmann
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Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence.
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Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
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This is no stuffy music appreciation lesson. Author Kathleen Krull makes these great artists come alive...
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Will in the World
by Stephen Greenblatt
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Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....
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La Boheme: An Introduction to Puccini's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Price: Audio CD ($8.09)
La Boherne virtually defines the term romantic. The poignant story of Mini and Rudolf is told in music of such tender beauty, afraid, as always, to Pooch's intuition of what works in the theatre, resulting in an opera that realty to our emotions and senses.
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The History of Opera
by Richard Fawkes
Price: Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)
Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there...
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The Life of Mozart
by Edward Holmes
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Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based upon Mozart's own letters and memoirs.
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Madama Butterfly: An Introduction to Puccini's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Price: Audio CD ($8.09)
Madama Butterfly truly does run the game of operate emotion day that of Madama Butterfly issued to an American senior and then afterward engages out enclose as it obviously did Puccini's to a degree equaled by new other opera hoarsens.
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Bach
by Jeremy Siepmann
Price: Audio CD ($32.39)
Although now beloved and revered by millions as the greatest composer who ever lived, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was best known in his lifetime as an organist, and was eclipsed in fame as a composer by two of his 20 children.
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Ballet Stories
by David Angus
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves...
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Brahms
by Jeremy Siepmann
Price: Audio CD ($35.99)
Brahms is one of the best loved, yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse.
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