Singing and Music Making

Presents the memories and insights of a great musician-a master of the guitar whose performances and exuberant, caring nature have brought joy to many around the world. Pepe Romero (b. 1944) has been …

Hector Berlioz combined writing music with lively and informed music criticism. This collection of articles, engagingly translated by Roger Nichols, covers the middle years of his critical career. Be …

A joyful, moving, vivid window onto the life and heart of an American icon. In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a 1977 Coupe De Ville with the great singer-songwriter John Prine, taking a …

A founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in pre–tech boom San Francisco THE ROYAL WE is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that onc …

In everything that we went through, all we wanted to do was sing and make it work. In this journey, we met a lot of good people, and we met people who didnt mean us any good, but we knew some of thos …

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the Unit …

Belle époque Paris adored dance. Whether at the music hall or in more refined theaters, audiences flocked to see the spectacles offered to them by the likes of Isadora Duncan, Diaghilev’s flashy comp …

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete ed …

Pink Floyd – The Music And The Mystery is the ultimate illustrated discography of Pink Floyd. From their very first single Arnold Layne to the most recent special editions of their ground-breaking mi …

Well before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband’s death. Despite being t …