Author: Lanie Robertson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681844
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"Deals with one of the last appearances of Billie Holiday." -- p.7 | May include musicians.
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Author: Lanie Robertson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681844
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"Deals with one of the last appearances of Billie Holiday." -- p.7 | May include musicians.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681844
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"Deals with one of the last appearances of Billie Holiday." -- p.7 | May include musicians.
The Insanity of Mary Girard
Author: Lanie Robertson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573622274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Brian's older brother thinks he's too small to play ball with them, but he shows them he's not.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573622274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Brian's older brother thinks he's too small to play ball with them, but he shows them he's not.
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Author: Robertson. Lanie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Billie Holiday
Author: John Szwed
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101614706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography • Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life—her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships—or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. But now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, critically acclaimed jazz writer John Szwed considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101614706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography • Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life—her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships—or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. But now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, critically acclaimed jazz writer John Szwed considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy.
2021 Annual Report
Author: Council on Foreign Relations
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 9780876093955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The 2021 Annual Report from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 9780876093955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The 2021 Annual Report from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Becoming Dr. Ruth
Author: Mark St. Germain
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822231182
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper, to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly-arrived in America, Mark St. Germain deftly illuminates this remarkable woman's untold story. BECOMING DR. RUTH is filled with the humor, honesty, and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became "Dr. Ruth," America’s most famous sex therapist.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822231182
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper, to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly-arrived in America, Mark St. Germain deftly illuminates this remarkable woman's untold story. BECOMING DR. RUTH is filled with the humor, honesty, and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became "Dr. Ruth," America’s most famous sex therapist.
Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767923863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767923863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.
Ohio State Murders
Author: Adrienne Kennedy
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573662355
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
An intriguing, unusual and chilling look at the destructiveness of racism in the U.S.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573662355
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
An intriguing, unusual and chilling look at the destructiveness of racism in the U.S.
The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559365222
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A challenging examination of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa from an iconic playwright.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559365222
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A challenging examination of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa from an iconic playwright.
See what I Wanna See
Author: Michael John LaChiusa
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822221692
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, a musical about lust, greed, murder, faith and redemption, was named by New York Magazine as one of the Best Musicals of 2005 and nominated for nine Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical. It is based on t
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822221692
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, a musical about lust, greed, murder, faith and redemption, was named by New York Magazine as one of the Best Musicals of 2005 and nominated for nine Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical. It is based on t