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SKU: 7454

These SF Symphony bookmarks are hand crafted in the USA and incorporate a variety of hardwoods, all of which come from responsibly managed forests.

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Sigmund Freud Mini-Journal

SKU: 6403C

Great writers and artists at work!

To inspire the writer, these unique journals provide excerpts from the manuscripts and drafts of some of the greatest writers and artists of all time. These reproductions of original manuscripts and diaries (in our embellished style) provide a glimpse into the creative process of figures such as Mozart and Freud. You can see them at work on the written page.

The Embellished Manuscripts Wraps include a memento pouch and a classic ribbon marker to store the treasures of a life well-lived.

Our classic faux Old Leather, although often mistaken for real leather, are printed covers with a leather-like pattern.

7″ × 9″
144 blank pages
Smythe sewn wrap
Memento pouch
Ribbon page marker

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Stravinksy: The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers

SKU: 6101

Perhaps the most influential figure in the musical life of the Twentieth Century, Igor Stravinsky was also one of its most conroversial.

Catapulted to international fame by his ballet The Firebird at the age of twenty-eight, he went on to produce a series of theatre, choral, orchestral and instrumental works which changed the direction of contemporary music.

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The Composer Is Dead (Hardcover Book with CD)

SKU: 7789

A little spooky, a little sad, and a lot of musical fun - that's what's in store for you with Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead.

The San Francisco Symphony asked composer Nathaniel Stookey to write the music and the great storyteller Lemony Snicket to create the story. Edwin Outwater conducted the world premiere performance and recording of The Composer Is Dead with the SFS in July 2006.

by Lemony Snicket (Author), Carson Ellis (Illustrator)

With CD of music composed by Nathaniel Stookey, narrated by Lemony Snicket.

Hardcover: 40 pages

Reading level: Ages 4-8

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The John Adams Reader (Hardcover Book)

SKU: 5975

The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer gathers a colorful and wide-ranging selection of pieces from leading musical commentators and critics. Included are revealing interviews with the composer as well as eloquent essays by Ingram Marshall, Michael Steinberg, Alex Ross, Sarah Cahill, Alan Rich, and many others. Editor Thomas May has grouped this collection into four sections: profiles of the artist (including a fascinating memory piece from Ingram Marshall on Adams's early San Francisco years), detailed essays on the major works, interviews with some leading collaborators and interpreters, and critical reception. This reader should be of use both as an introduction for the general reader to a preeminently significant American artist and as a reference for the more serious student or scholar.

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection

SKU: 2453

Here is an informative guide to help you build a personally enriching classical music collection.

What are the 20 most important and defining works for starters? And where should you go from there? NPR’s Ted Libbey gives detailed expert advice to lead you through your own musical growth, with information regardging the performers, the works and the recordings.

Written by Ted Libbey of NPR’s Performance Today.
Second Edition, revised and updated, Workman Publishing—New York—ISBN 0-7611-0487-9 (paperback)

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The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music

SKU: 5504

A jam-packed, 11-year undertaking of 928 pages, 1,500 entries, and over 1,000 recommended recordings, The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia is an everything-you-need-to-know bible for the classical music lover. Written with infectious enthusiasm by Ted Libbey, author of The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection, with 174,000 copies in print, this is an encyclopedia with wit and verve, covering those terms, works, composers, and performers that NPR listeners and concertgoers are most likely to encounter.

In addition, buyers of the book will receive a password that opens the door to an interactive Web site, created in a partnership with the classical music powerhouse, Naxos, that allows them to listen to 600 examples of works, techniques, and performers discussed and cross-referenced in the book. This is the first interactive encyclopedia of music!

Libbey, a spirited, selective guide, writes "lyrically and lucidly about music and music makers" (Chicago Tribune) and knows how to ground abstract ideas in the real. How does it work? Look up barcarolle, and he not only defines the term vividly ("the melody is a gentle, rocking rhythm suggestive of the swaying of a boat") but suggests three exemplary pieces of music to listen to--Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman, Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, and Chopin's Barcarolle. Then go to the Web site and hear what he's writing about.

What is the tonic? Why is there such a satisfying psychological impact at the end of a sonata? Who is Thomas Tallis? What is the idea behind Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and was there ever an ill-tempered clavier? For the music lover, impossible to put down.

About the AuthorTed Libbey is one of America's most highly regarded music critics. A former music critic for The New York Times, he is known to millions of NPR listeners as curator of the Basic Radio Library on Performance Today. Mr. Libbey is now Director of Media Arts of the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.

Paperback, 928 pages.

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