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Visitation of Spirits
* Randall Kenan passed away suddenly on August 28, 2020. He was 57 years old. A Visitation of Spirits is his first novel, and his short story collection Let the Dead Bury the Dead was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named a New York Times Notable Book. * His most recent collection, If I Had Wings, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction. * He was a generous and engaged writing professor (College, Duke University, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Mississippi, Oxford, before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2003) and literary citizen of his generation and his passing was greeted as a huge loss. * Mr. Kenan was a Black gay fiction pioneer at the time when there were very few being published by major houses. "He embodied all of them, but he'd be loath to make a hierarchy of them," said the novelist Tayari Jones about him in his New York Times obituary. "He didn't say, 'Don't label me.' He wore them all as ornaments." * In Mr. Kenan's last published piece, which appeared on Literary Hub, he wrote about the increasing outcry against Confederate statues in the South and their removal. * Mr. Kenan won the 1992 Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction. His other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship; a Whiting Award for emerging writers, in 1994; and, in 2002, the John Dos Passos Prize, given by Longwood University in Virginia. * Tarell Alvin McCraney who wrote Moonlight loves the novel and is on our list of possible introduction contributors to introduce his work to a new generation of readers.- Shop: buecher
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Fight Like the Devil: The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863: Emerging Civil War Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min
“Do not bring on a general engagement”, Confederate General Robert E. Lee warned his commanders. The Army of Northern Virginia, slicing its way through south-central Pennsylvania, was too spread out, too vulnerable, for a full-scale engagement with its old nemesis, the Army of the Potomac. Too much was riding on this latest Confederate invasion of the North. Too much was at stake. As Confederate forces groped their way through the mountain passes, a chance encounter with Federal cavalry on the outskirts of a small Pennsylvania crossroads town triggered a series of events that quickly escalated beyond Lee’s - or anyone’s - control. Waves of soldiers materialized on both sides in a constantly shifting jigsaw of combat. “You will have to fight like the devil...” one Union cavalryman predicted. The costliest battle in the history of the North American continent had begun. July 1, 1863 remains the most overlooked phase of the battle of Gettysburg, yet it set the stage for all the fateful events that followed. Bringing decades of familiarity to the discussion, historians Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis, in their engaging style, recount the action of that first day of battle and explore the profound implications in Fight Like the Devil. About the Authors: Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White are cofounders of Emerging Civil War and Daniel T. Davis is chief historian. Between them, they have authored more than a dozen books and have penned articles for Civil War Times, America’s Civil War, Hallowed Ground, and Blue & Gray. Chris is a writing professor at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY, and historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield. Daniel is a graduate of Longwood University with a B.A. in public history and has worked as a historian at Appomattox Court House National Historic Sit ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph A Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151180/bk_acx0_151180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Doors (The Longwood Series #1)
Doors (The Longwood Series #1): ab 3.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Fantasy
Composers have used the word 'fantasy' in myriad ways, taking advantage of both it's implied lack of formal structure, and the exploration of the imagination. A fantasy can be a spontaneous improvisation on a simple chord structure (Mozart), a development of a single theme (Schubert), a celebration of multiple themes (Hirtz and Di Liberto) or a full-scale original work (Schumann). The Wanderer Fantasy (1822) is Franz Schubert's most openly virtuosic work for piano, and as such first drew me in as a teenager looking for technical challenges. Fortunately my teacher Lee Kum-Sing opened my eyes and ears to the music behind the notes. Remarkably, the genesis for all four movements is the smallest kernel of a rhythmic idea that Schubert took from his own song Der Wanderer. Aficionados of Morse Code will recognize the letter D in the opening measures of each movement. William Hirtz's Wizard of Oz Fantasy (1999) was originally commissioned as a piano duet for Karen Kushner and Igor Kipnis. I gratefully accepted an offer from Mr. Hirtz to arrange a solo version, mistakenly assuming that a reduction for only two hands would have fewer notes. (I am happy to report that our close friendship has survived.) This ingenious fantasy enables Harold Arlen's glorious songs and Herbert Stothart's colorful incidental music to be heard in a piano recital setting. It is a tour-de force of pianistic creativity and a virtual compendium of advanced technique. Performing W.A. Mozart's Fantasy in D minor (1782) presents a particular challenge, as it is an unfinished work. My childhood copy has ten measures added by an editor, which bring the piece to a rather abrupt close. I have taken the liberty of improvising my own ending. If the last minute and a half is not to your liking, do not blame Mozart! Fantasia sulla Cavalleria Rusticana (2005) was written by Sicilian pianist Calogero Di Liberto while he was completing his doctoral studies in my studio at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. In researching operatic fantasies for his doctoral document, he realized that he could compensate for the lack of a fantasy on Pietro Mascagni's immensely popular opera by writing his own. Di Liberto's brilliant understanding of the piano, and his lifelong love of Italian opera, shine through in this fantasy dedicated to his daughter Clara. Robert Schumann's Fantasy (1836) was my first major project (it may have qualified as an obsession) at The Juilliard School as a student of the legendary pedagogue Adele Marcus in 1980. My battered copy of the score is swathed in her markings: "Sentiment without sentimentality," "Proportion vs. freedom," and "Surge!" In these lessons I began to grasp the scope of a work whose artistic challenges far surpassed the considerable technical ones. A sign of this monumental work's enduring popularity occurred during the final editing process, when three of my students at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University were working on the Schumann Fantasy simultaneously. It has been a privilege to pass on the legacy of Miss Marcus' words of wisdom. Although I did make a few recordings at the beginning of my concert career, I was always ill at ease. I missed the inspiration of a live audience and the unpredictable nature of each performance. To me, a recording was a permanent document that I might instantly wish to disavow! Now, I thoroughly enjoy the process. I find satisfaction in trying a phrase one way, then another. I also appreciate my wife Aloysia Friedmann's special role as my recording session producer. Her musicianship, artistry and patience inspire me, and I trust her ears implicitly. In addition, it is wonderful to have the opportunity to bring new works to light, and I am delighted to have Hirtz and Di Liberto stand with pride beside Mozart, Schubert and Schumann. This recording is dedicated to the memory of Adele Marcus. PRODUCER Aloysia Friedmann POST-PRODUCTION Jon Kimura Parker and Aloysia Friedmann RECORDING AND EDITING Andy Bradley, SugarHill Studios, Houston, TX MASTERING Chris Longwood, SugarHill Studios, Houston, TX CD DESIGN Wade Campbell PHOTOGRAPHS Tara McMullen PHOTO STYLING Liz Parker, lizpr.com MICROPHONES Telefunken/Schoeps, Francis X. Schmidt PIANO Hamburg Steinway #491220 Maintained and tuned by Dean Shank SPECIAL THANKS TO Sam Ersan, and to Dean Robert Yekovich and The Shepherd School of Music for making this recording possible All Wizard of Oz songs in medley © Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, published by EMI Feist Catalog, Inc. Arrangement © William Hirtz Fantasia Sulla "Cavalleria Rusticana" Per Pianoforte By Calogero Di Liberto. Copyright and Publishing Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milan, Italy.- Shop: odax
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