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2012-2013

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BOOKS ABOUT Musical Theatre

BOOKS ABOUT MUSICAL THEATRE At This Theatre Revised and Updated Edition

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by Robert Viagas and Louis Botto Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Theatregoers’ favorite history of Broadway is back in an updated and expanded 2010 edition including more than 500 color production photos, vintage archival photos, and Playbill covers from all forty currently operating Broadway theatres. 00314815 �������������������������������������������������������$38.99

Blumenfeld’s Dictionary of Musical Theater

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Packed with nearly 1,800 entries, this is a must-have research tool and handy reference for the theater and music lover, student, teacher, professional singer, director, and producer! Meant as a supplement and companion to Blumenfeld’s Dictionary of Acting and Show Business (Limelight, 2009), this unique dictionary is loaded with info about all the various genres of musical theater; thumbnail plot summaries of works well-known and obscure; thumbnail bios of composers and writers; and dance, theatrical, singing, and music terminology. 00332880 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99 The American Musical

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by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

A companion to the six-part PBS documentary series, Broadway: The American Musical is the first comprehensive history of the musical, from its roots at the turn of the 20th century through the smashing successes of the new millennium. The in-depth text is lavishly illustrated with a treasure trove of photographs, sheet-music covers, posters, scenic renderings, production stills, rehearsal shots and caricatures, many previously unpublished. Revised and updated, with a brand-new foreword by Julie Andrews and new material on all the Broadway musicals through the 2009-2010 season. 00314827 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$35.00

Broadway Musical MVPs: 1960-2010

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The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons by Peter Filichia

Peter Filichia names his choices for the MVPs of each of the past 50 Broadway seasons – they might be performers, producers, directors, or choreographers. Not surprisingly, many of the featured MVPs are multitaskers, such as directors who also choreographed, or wrote the book, or even designed the costumes! Also included are awards in categories such as Comeback Player of the Year, Reliever of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and Led League in Errors. 00314842  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99

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Show by Show Sixth Edition

by Stanley Green revised by Kay Green Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

The most comprehensive Broadway reference book has been expanded and updated to include more than 300 of the most important and memorable Broadway musicals, beginning with The Black Crook in 1866. The sixth edition adds entries on The Lion King, Hairspray, The Producers, Wicked, The Boy from Oz, Mamma Mia!, Avenue Q and others. 00314782 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$18.99

Broadway Musicals

by Robert Blumenfeld Limelight Editions

Broadway

Broadway Musicals

The Biggest Hit & the Biggest Flop of the Season – 1959 to 2009

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by Peter Filichia Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Every season Broadway has one, two, or a few hit musicals, but many, many more flops. Here’s a look at the extreme cases from each season of the past halfcentury. Broadway is the oldest established permanent non-floating crap game in New York, and Peter Filichia takes a look at 100 shows that met either the most glorious or the most ignominious fates. 00332900 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99

The Broadway Musicals Quiz Book

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by Laura Frankos foreword by Peter Filichia Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

The Broadway Musicals Quiz Book includes nearly 80 quizzes on every aspect of the Broadway musical, including sections devoted to the careers of major Broadway stars, songwriters, directors, and producers, ranging from Ethel Merman to Stephen Sondheim. With over 700 shows mentioned, and over 1200 questions, The Broadway Musicals Quiz Book is detailed and thorough. 00314831 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$18.99

Cabaret

Music on Film Series

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by Stephen Tropiano Limelight Editions

This insider’s look chronicles the history of Cabaret, from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories to the stage and film versions of John Van Druten’s play I Am a Camera, through the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical for the big screen. 00333070  ��������������������������������������������������������$9.99


BOOKS ABOUT MUSICal Theatre The Enraged New Accompanist’s Guide to the Perfect Audition by Andrew Gerle Applause Books

From the unique perspective of the audition bench, author Gerle demystifies the audition process, from how to put together your book and speak to an accompanist to the healthiest and savviest ways to approach the audition marketplace and your career. You will learn to present yourself in the strongest, most capable way while remaining true to your own special voice. 00314837  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$16.99

Hollywood Musicals Year by Year Third Edition

by Stanley Green Third edition revised and updated by Barry Monush Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

With thousands of interesting facts about Hollywood’s favorite musicals, this book provides a world of information, facts, and trivia about cinema’s favorite musicals. Beginning with The Jazz Singer and moving through the years, this illustrated book documents more than 300 movies. 00314819 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$18.99

A Place in the Choir Finding Harmony in a World of Many Voices

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by John Jacobson

With a world full of many conflicting voices, it’s not always easy to find your own. One of America’s bestloved musical personalities, John Jacobson brings you a garden of beautiful flowers – “flowers that sing” – in this collection of heartwarming essays and inspirational stories. Not just for music teachers, this book is full of life lessons for all of us, so we each can find our very own “place in the choir.” 00333327 Softcover �������������������������������������������������������������������������$16.99

The Playbill Broadway Yearbook: June 2010 to May 2011

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Seventh Annual Edition

edited by Robert Viagas

Many of the people who work on Broadway keep scrapbooks of their experiences: photos, signed posters, ticket stubs, and, of course the Playbills. Playbill Books, a division of the iconic 127-year-old company that designs the programs for every show on Broadway, has expanded this idea into an annual project that has become a Broadway institution: The Playbill Broadway Yearbook. Taking the form of a college yearbook, the seventh edition is packed with photos – more than 4,000 of them, many in color – and memorabilia from the entire 2010-2011 Broadway season, including headshots of all the actors, and photos of producers, writers, designers, stage managers, stagehands, musicians – even the ushers! A new feature this year is plot summaries of each of the shows, as well as stats, Playbill covers, and inside stories that only Playbill can get. It includes chapters on nearly 80 Broadway shows – not just new shows such as Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark, Warhorse, The Book of Mormon, and Catch Me If You Can, but also the season’s long-running ones, such as Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia! and Wicked. Also included is a wealth of photos from Broadway insider events, including “Gypsy of the Year,” “Broadway Bare,” and the annual Broadway League softball championship. 00314865 Hardcover �����������������������������������������������������������������������$39.99

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Mr. Broadway

The Inside Story of the Shuberts, the Shows, and the Stars

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by Gerald Schoenfeld Foreword by Hugh Jackman Introduction by Alec Baldwin

Mr. Broadway was completed just one month before Gerald Schoenfeld’s death in 2008 at the age of 84. Bringing the reader backstage, the long-term chairman of the Shubert Organization shares his triumphs and failures, sings praise, and settles scores. He recounts nightmarish tales of the Shuberts, themselves – the meanness of Lee, the madness of JJ, the turmoil surrounding John’s personal life, and the drunken ineptitude of Lawrence Shubert Lawrence, Jr., the man who succeeded them and nearly brought the Shubert legacy to an ignominious end. An active participant in that legacy for over 50 years, Schoenfeld describes how he and his partner, Bernie Jacobs, saved the Shubert Organization, bringing some of Broadway’s greatest hits to the stage – from A Chorus Line, Equus, and Amadeus to Pippin, Les Misérables, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Godspell, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Dreamgirls, Dancin’, Sunday in the Park with George, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Heidi Chronicles, The Gin Game, Miss Saigon, and Chess. 00314923  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$27.99

A Purple Summer

Notes on the Lyrics of Spring Awakening

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by Steven Sater

In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind’s notorious Symbolist drama, Frühlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise. That night, Sater came home and began writing the first lyric of Spring Awakening: “Mama Who Bore Me” – a lyric which still stands, verbatim, just as he first wrote it. Ten years later, in the wake of the enormous international success of this groundbreaking, multiaward-winning show, its original director, Michael Mayer, urged Sater to write notes explicating its famously evocative, poetic lyrics. In rich detail, Sater’s notes address the literary sources and allusions of each lyric. He also writes feelingly of what prompted the songs over the course of the show’s eight years of development. In so doing, Sater expands on his partnership with Sheik and his experiences with original cast members, Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff, now also known from Glee. These notes will prove invaluable for fans of the show, for all those interested in theater, and most especially for all the young performers who will play the roles and sing these songs. 00314920  ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$9.99

On Singing Onstage by David Craig introduction by Lee Grant

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A terrific take on theatre singing by a master teacher. “David Craig knows more about singing in the musical theatre than anyone in this country – which probably means the world. Time and time again his advice and training have resulted in actors moving from non-musical theatre into musicals with ease and expertise. SHORT OF TAKING CLASSES, THIS BOOK IS A MUST.” – Harold Prince 00314002  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$16.99


BOOKS ABOUT Musical Theatre On Singing Onstage

Showtunes – Legendary Piano Series

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with David Craig

David Craig’s nine-hour video series on musical performance covers all of the techniques and exercises, as well as Craig’s legendary performance philosophy, which has instructed and inspired singers, actors, and dancers for more than 50 years. Craig breaks down the act of singing onstage into specific, approachable components and takes the viewer step by step through the process, from how to analyze lyrics and stand on the stage for an audition, to signaling the accompanist and making lyrics come to life. Available as a complete set or individually, each 90-minute DVD includes a study guide. • Class One: Lectures • Class Two: Technique • Class Three: Subtext • Class Four: Process/the Ballad • Class Five: Process/The Uptempo • Class Six: Performance/Q&A 00314918  Complete 6-DVD Set ���������������������������������������������������$150.00

Rock the Audition

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How to Prepare for and Get Cast in Rock Musicals by Sheri Sanders Foreword by Wendy Bobbitt Cavett

Rock musicals are an increasingly dominant force in contemporary musical theater. Rock the Audition defines what is required of the actor-singer to succeed in the audition room and gives the aspiring performer the tools necessary to interpret rock material with abandon, creativity, and inspiration. 00333118  Book/DVD Pack �������������������������������������������������������������$29.99

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Luxuriously bound with a unique, faux-suede embroidered design and an exquisite presentation box, this volume will be treasured for years to come as a book to play from, read and re-read. This lavishly produced book is the ultimate collection of West End and Broadway favorites. Carefully selected, meticulously transcribed and beautifully presented, these songs represent some of the greatest songs ever written for stage. Songs include: Ain’t Misbehavin’ • As Long As He Needs Me (from Oliver!) • Cabaret • Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man (from Showboat) • Do You Hear the People Sing? (from Les Miserables) • Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina (from Evita) • If I Were a Rich Man (from Fiddler on the Roof) • Luck Be a Lady (from Guys and Dolls) • Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (from Oklahoma) • Over the Rainbow (from Wizard of Oz) • Springtime for Hitler (from The Producers) • The Music of the Night (from The Phantom of the Opera) • Till There Was You (from The Music Man) • and many more. Includes photos and a brief description of each show represented. 14041663  Hardcover Boxed Set ������������������������������������������������������$49.99

Something’s Coming, Something Good by Misha Berson Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

A critical, comprehensive look at one of the most inventive, influential, and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time – from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents) to its smashing success on film, to its ongoing popularity on stages around the world and its potent impact on the Great American Musical. 00314817 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99

The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook

Music on Film Series

by Dave Thompson

by Fred Bronson

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Seven very special children experienced The Sound of Music firsthand: the seven young actors cast as the von Trapp children. Now, for the first time, they tell their stories about making this celebrated film, from their auditions to rehearsals in Los Angeles to an incredible spring and summer in Salzburg, Austria. As a bonus, they have collected their own never-before-seen home movie footage on a brand-new DVD. 00314943  Hardcover with DVD �����������������������������������������������������$45.00

Hal Leonard Vocal 46

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West Side Story and the American Imagination

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is simultaneously one of the iconographic touchstones of 1970s cinema, and a timeless romp that appeals equally to every fresh generation. Created with a sharp eye for cult and context alike, Rocky Horror leaped effortlessly from stage to celluloid, losing none of its immediacy and spontaneity in the process – and maybe gathering more. Dave Thompson goes deep inside the phenomenon to trace the story and the strangeness that is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 00333144  ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$9.99

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BOOKS ABOUT MUSICal Theatre Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands

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by Mike Weaver and Colleen Hart

Featuring more than 100 competitive show choirs from around the United States in photos, quotations, and stories, this edutainment-style book details the pop culture and theater influences that, over time, built this unique entertainment genre into the mecca of music lovers that it is today. Read real-life accounts of show choir performers, directors, and choreographers. Catch a glimpse into a once practically unknown society of “swing choirs.” Discover what P. T. Barnum, Bob Fosse, speakeasies, cigarette companies, the modern-day blender, and Lady Gaga all have to do with this glitter-drenched community of singers and dancers. Take a step beyond the hit show Glee and learn about the real drama, the hard work, the sweat, and the tears. Find out what it takes to build an award-winning competition set; the branding, the budgets, the strategy and the performance. Meet the characters. Learn the lingo. Fall in love with show choirs. 00314852  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$22.99 New

2010-2011

edited by Ben Hodges and Scott Denny

Now in its 67th year, Theatre World is the most comprehensive record of the theatrical seasonBroadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, including listings for over 60 regional companies. Detailing more than 2,000 productions, each entry includes photos, a complete cast listing, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and plot synopses. Theatre World also features the year’s obituaries, a listing of all nominees and winners of the major theatrical awards, the longestrunning shows on and off Broadway, and a detailed index. Highlights of the 2010-2011 season include the multi-award-winning musical The Book of Mormon. The National Theatre production of War Horse transferred to a successful Broadway engagement at Lincoln Center Theater, featuring the stunning puppetry of the Handspring Puppet Company. Larry Kramer’s hit Off-Broadway play from the 1980s, The Normal Heart, was revived on Broadway with a star-studded cast, while Cole Porter’s timeless classic Anything Goes had a glorious White Way revival at Roundabout Theatre Company’s new Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The Signature Theatre staged Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, while New York Theatre Workshop presented The Little Foxes, as well as Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to Peter Pan. Theatre World continues its new tradition of including Broadway, OffBroadway, Off-Off Broadway, and Regional Theatre roundups written by accomplished theater critics, and includes over 700 photos of the season. 00314936  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$49.99

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Music on Film Series

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by Barry Monush Limelight Editions

The Official History of Show Choir from Vaudeville to Glee

Theatre World Volume 67

West Side Story

West Side Story remains one of the classic motion pictures of the musical genre. A joint collaboration between directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, it won 10 Academy Awards and produced the longest-charting soundtrack album of all time. This book explores not only the stage origins of the piece, but the incredible impact of the movie version and how it became a touchstone for all subsequent generations interested in dance on film and in great filmmaking in general. 00333040 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$12.99

WINNING AUDITIONS 101 Strategies for Actors by Mark Brandon Limelight Editions (released in 2005)

A shared collection of actors’ audition secrets, with tricks of the trade divulged by professionals. 00332691 ��������������������������������������������������������$10.99


BOOKS ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC

BOOKS ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC Highlights and Recent Releases Leonard Bernstein at Work

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His Final Years, 1984-1990

Photography by Steve J. Sherman Foreword by Lauren Bacall Preface by Jamie Bernstein Amadeus Press

This remarkable photographic essay of Leonard Bernstein during the last six years of his life gives us rare insight into the disparate, sometimes vastly conflicting elements that shaped his work and deeply influenced everyone who was drawn into his inner world. It contains approximately 200 blackand-white photographs, most previously unpublished, taken on and off stage during 20 different events or concerts, along with personal comments and remembrances from over 50 of his colleagues, friends, and relatives. 00332791 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$34.99

Cantabile

A Manual about Beautiful Singing for Singers, Teachers of Singing and Choral Conductors by Katharin Rundus Pavane Publishing

This vocal pedagogy textbook breaks the mold. Filled with anatomical drawings, pictures, graphs and valuable vocal exercises, this book is wisely and attractively organized. Plus, every chapter includes a section specifically for the choral director! 08301877 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$59.95

SONG

A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature Revised Edition by Carol Kimball

arol Kimball’s landmark resource on art song C literature has been revised and updated for this new edition, sure to be a necessity in every voice studio and vocal literature class. Off the market for some time, Hal Leonard is proud to make it once again available, and at a more affordable price for students. 00331422 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$29.99

Classical Destinations An Armchair Guide to Classical Music with foreword by Simon Callow Amadeus Press

This is companion to the 13-week PBS series running in autumn, 2007. “A wonderful coffee-table book...Gorgeously illustrated with over 200 recent color photographs and featuring a number of sidebars on specific landmarks and informative commentary by the show’s host, it serves as a virtual tour through classical music history...A recommended purchase.”–Library Journal 00331746 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$30.00

Franco Corelli: Prince of Tenors by René Seghers Amadeus Press

Nearly a decade in the making, this definitive biography of the one-time “world’s greatest tenor” is based on the author’s extensive research of theatre archives and interviews with Corelli’s family, friends and colleagues (Nilsson, Pavarotti, and many others). 00332718 �����������������������������������������������������������$34.95

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

From Flower Maiden to Marschallin by Kirsten Liese Photos by Lillian Fayer Amadeus Press

As Flower Maiden in Wagner’s Parsifal, she gave her opera debut. As Marschallin in Strauss’s Rosenkavalier, she made history. One of the greatest singers of the last century, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf possessed not only an unmistakable timbre, but also a bewitching beauty. This pictorial volume contains hundreds of costume and portrait photographs from her private estate, providing a lasting reflection of her personality and elegance. 00332371 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$27.95

Evenings at the Opera An Exploration of the Basic Repertoire

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by Jeffrey Langford Amadeus Press

This collection of essays presents a unique view of the stylistic development of nearly 200 years of opera history (from Mozart to Britten), with special attention to the question of how the genre’s competing components of action, music, and text combine to make effective music drama. 00332996  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99

The Empty Voice Acting Opera

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by Leon Major with Michael Laing Amadeus Press

This book offers opera singers a method and the tools that will assist them in developing their roles and the dramatic action of a scene. The method and tools are demonstrated in analysis of key scenes from selected operas, and these examples are basic for the preparation for all characters in all operas, voice types, or time periods. 00333087  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF MOZART The Vocal Works

by David Hurwitz Amadeus Press

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This volume focuses on Mozart’s great operas and other vocal works, including numerous lesser known compositions. With a CD of recorded selections. 00331661  Book/CD ������������������������������������������$22.95


BOOKS ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC Hey Mom! Listen to This!

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by Elaine Schmidt

An essential guide for parents who enrich their child’s life with music, this book starts with earlychildhood opportunities and goes through post-high school options. It covers everything from strings, winds and choral music to piano, guitar, drums and ethnic instruments, presenting parents with info and options for renting or buying an instrument, selecting a private teacher, and finding performing ensembles for their child. The book continues past graduation, with suggestions for continued musical experience, as well as career options for those interested in making music their vocation. Packed with comments from professional musicians and music teachers, the guide also offers specific info on such topics as keeping children motivated to practice and helping them deal with performance nerves. 00332937 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99

James Levine

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Presented by the Metropolitan Opera Amadeus Press

James Levine: Forty Years at the Metropolitan Opera explores the legendary conductor’s profound body of work over four decades of musical leadership, offering an unusual and personal look at one of history’s most influential artistic figures at the helm of the world’s greatest opera house. 00333172  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$35.00

Maria Callas A Musical Biography

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by Robert Levine Amadeus Press

The New York-born, internationally famous Callas was the most influential soprano of the 20th century, reviving a school of singing – bel canto – that had been shunted aside, if not forgotten, for 75 years. This profusely illustrated book covers Callas’s life and career without dwelling on unimportant details; the facts are all here, but it is primarily a musical biography. The final third of the book is devoted to an analysis of the tracks on the two CDs that accompany the text. 00332935  Book/2-CDs Pack ������������������������������������������������������������$24.99

Mozart

An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths

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by Roye E. Wates Amadeus Press

Wates explores 20 of Mozart’s major works in the context of his tragically brief life and the turbulent times in which he lived. Includes extensive biographical and historical background information – debunking many well-established Mozart myths – along with guided study of compositions representing every genre of 18th-century music: opera, concerto, symphony, church music, divertimento and serenade, sonata, and string quartet. 00332826 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$24.99

In The Music of Silence, Bocelli tells his own story in the form of an autobiographical novel, naming his alter ego “Amos Bardi.” He writes of a loving family that encouraged his musical gifts from an early age, and of the dedication that led to his professional breakthrough and his meteoric rise to stardom. The first edition of Bocelli’s memoir was published in 1999 and focused on the success and difficulties at the beginnings of his astonishing career. This newly revised and updated edition is an even deeper and more intimate analysis of his life, loves, and losses – the result of wisdom gained from the increased personal and artistic maturity gained in the subsequent decade of his life. This book will touch and captivate all Bocelli fans and those who admire perseverance in the face of great challenges. 00333173  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$27.99

Pavarotti Up Close by Leone Magiera Ricordi

Pavarotti Up Close is an unprecedented and affectionate portrait of the greatest tenor of the twentieth century, told through the eyes of his longtime musical coach and accompanist Leone Magiera. The secrets of the legendary voice are revealed for the first time, written by the one person who was there throughout the singer’s career and witnessed it all firsthand, making Pavarotti Up Close different from any other Pavarotti biography. 50486876 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$35.95

THE PERFECT WRONG NOTE Learning to Trust Your Musical Self by William Westney Amadeus Press

First time in paperback. American Record Guide said of it: “Everyone will benefit from the call of William Westney’s book…dare to make and learn from mistakes, and ‘get back in touch with your magical three-year-old self.’” 00331733 �����������������������������������������������������������$19.99

The Gershwins’ New Porgy and Bess: The 75th Anniversary Celebration by Robin Thompson Amadeus Press

Lavishly illustrated 75th anniversary volume created with the participation of the Gershwin estate. Thompson looks at the various interpretations of the work and the many layers of meaning to be found in the story. Packed with unique, rarely seen archival photographs and documents associated with the production, Porgy and Bess commemorates this uniquely American blending of musical, ethnic, and creative styles and the people, the performers, and the times that produced it. 00333053 Hardcover �����������������������������������������������������������������������$29.99

= Book/CD Package 49

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by Andrea Bocelli

A Parent’s Guide to Music

40 Years at the Metropolitan Opera

The Music of Silence


BOOKS ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC Schubert’s Theater of Song

The Singer’s Companion

by Mark Ringer Unlocking the Masters Series Amadeus Press

by Brent Monahan Limelight Editions

A Listener’s Guide

A Guide to Improving Your Voice and Performance

Ringer sheds new perspectives on Schubert’s songs, focusing on their incomparable dramatic power, which often exceeds that of many a full-fledged opera. But Schubert’s “stage” was not to be the public theaters of the repressive Metternich regime in Vienna, but the far less censorable “theater of the mind.” Schubert’s theater of song would spring to life in intimate social gatherings of like-minded friends, wherever a singer and a fortepiano were available. They rightfully belong to every music lover. This is the first introductory guide for the general reader to appear in many years. 00331973 Book/CD ��������������������������������������������������������������������������$22.99

Schumann – A Chorus of Voices

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With a CD of Schumann piano music by John C. Tibbetts Amadeus Press

Schumann – A Chorus of Voices is a significant contribution to Schumann’s 200th-birthday year, 2010. In these hitherto unpublished interviews and conversations, more than thirty biographers, musicians, critics, and commentators offer their own unique perspectives on Schumann’s life, work, controversies, and place in the history of Romantic music. 00332936  Book/CD Pack ����������������������������������������������������������������$34.99

Singer and Actor

Acting Technique and the Operatic Performer by Alan E. Hicks

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Current market forces in the performing arts, such as aging audiences, electronic media, and HD broadcasts, have changed the operatic landscape. Young opera singers entering the workforce find themselves navigating difficult and highly competitive waters. Previously ignored skill sets become assets – and, in many cases, requirements – in casting. But most singers graduate from college having never taken a formal acting class and knowing little about acting technique as it pertains to their craft. Singer and Actor demystifies theatrical acting technique stemming from Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Action and provides singers at all levels a roadmap with which to complete character preparation, using a clear and organized progression based on the work of Franchelle S. Dorn and exercises and examples (recitatives, arias, and ensembles). Singers (including choristers) are given the necessary tools to prepare auditions and inhabit a character from rehearsal to final performance. Singer and Actor also provides a history of acting from its beginnings to the present day, including a survey of acting techniques from Stanislavsky, Meisner, Hagen, Strasberg, Larry Moss, and others. Drawing additionally on the writings of composers and other creators of opera, the book deals with the misconception that only the singing matters in opera and includes a discussion of previous approaches to operatic acting. 00333099  ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$19.99

In an easy-to-use format, the author has distilled the depository of knowledge on singing, presenting tried and true methods that have endured for centuries. Brilliant singers and teachers, such as Enrico Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti, Eileen Farrell, Manuel Garcia and others prove the point with dozens of pithy quotations on their art. Any singer, from classical to popular, can benefit from this concise companion. Includes vocal exercises. 00331737  Book/CD Pack ���������������������������������������������������������������$18.99

So When Does the Fat Lady Sing?

Questions and Answers about Life, Sex, Love, and – oh, yes – Opera by Michael Walsh Amadeus Press

Michael Walsh, former music critic of Time magazine, takes audiences on a wise and witty dash through 400 years of operatic history and culture. More a freewheeling dialogue between author and reader than a traditional quiz book, this is informational and entertaining for the expert and the novice. 00331784 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$10.95

Working with Bernstein by Jack Gottlieb Amadeus Press

Gottlieb has been described as Bernstein’s amanuensis and as the preeminent Bernstein scholar. This memoir presents fresh, sensitive, and revealing info about the everyday life of the maestro in Part One, featuring reminiscences peppered with anecdotes, humor, and stories by others. Part Two includes Gottlieb’s commentaries and analysis of Bernstein’s works, which have appeared in program notes for concerts by many of the world’s orchestras, as jacket notes for recordings, and as articles in journals and elsewhere. 00332923 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$24.99

Hal Leonard Vocal 50

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