Music & the Performing Arts

 

 

Recommendations from our staff that appeared in our 2009 Winter Newsletter. 









Katharine Hepburn: A Life in Pictures (Hardcover)

By Pierre-Henri Verlhac
$45.00
ISBN-13: 9780811869478
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Chronicle Books, 10/2009
Katharine Hepburn: A Life in Pictures is an intimate view of the life of a Hollywood giant and sheds new light on the woman named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female movie star in American cinema. With a compelling mixture of celebrity photographs and casual snapshots, this collection forms a uniquely stylish portrait and captures the life of a legend, on screen and off. This book would make a wonderful gift. —Clytia Fuller

Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street (Hardcover)

By Louise Gikow, Louise a. Gikow
$40.00
ISBN-13: 9781579126384
Availability: Usually ships from warehouse in 1 - 5 days
Published: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 10/2009
I have always loved Sesame Street—Grover! Cookie Monster! Bert and Ernie!—but never appreciated it more than I do now. My two toddlers are completely smitten with it, and each time it’s on, I can’t believe how lucky we are to have a show that is so smart, entertaining, diverse, and trustworthy. More than teaching kids to count or to recite the alphabet, Sesame Street’s lessons of kindness and consideration of others bowl me over as a parent, and I am so grateful that it has found a way to stay on the air for 40 years! (Thanks, Elmo!) This new book (complete with 1,500 photographs) celebrates four decades of ground- breaking educational programming, and invites fans behind the scenes at 123 Sesame Street. —S.B.

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Hardcover)

By Robin Kelley
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9780684831909
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Free Press, 10/2009
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Robin Kelley’s new biography, Thelonious Monk, is a breath of fresh air among the biographies of our legendary jazz musicians. This book is thorough, detailed, and written with a true affinity for Monk’s humaneness and creative musical output. It fills in the missing pieces about the growth of the jazz scene in New York through the forties, fifties, and sixties, detailing each step of Monk’s development—who passed through his bands, what gigs he played, and what happened on those scenes. It’s an invaluable and close look at the center of the world’s most important creative musical developments in those decades: New York City,” writes Chick Corea.
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