A smart, gritty examination of the lives of touring musicians Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath's brave second offering and follow-up to 2017's widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians - but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of a multi-member touring band. Told in two interwoven narratives that blur the lines...

In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director in the history of the American theater (22 Tony Awards and counting), looks back over his 70-year (and counting!) career. Featuring original material from Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre, Prince provides a fresh, new perspective on his writing from the vantage point of today. Sense of Occasion gives an insider's recollection...

ABOUT THIS BOOK 36 Song Arrangement Tips for the Small Recording Studio is a straight-to-the-point compilation of song arrangement techniques that will help you create great song productions. This book has similar content to the author's other book, Song Arrangement for the Small Recording Studio. However, 36 Song Arrangement Tips for the Small Recording Studio is formatted into an easy-to-read, tips-based book that is a perfect companion in the studio...

During his long, energetic life Ignaz Joseph Pleyel distinguished himself as a composer, publisher, and piano manufacturer. His distinctive musical language, combining Haydn's structural sophistication with the clarity, elegance, and lyricism of the Italian style he so admired, made him the most popular composer in Europe. Although many works eventually slipped into obscurity, successful revivals of his compositions in modern times have served to...

In the Game: Music and Multiple Sclerosis begins with the author's story of his rise and success in the music profession. Described as "being in the game," he lays out his method for success in one of the most difficult professions in America. Following a quick rise as a professional musician, he explains the first moment a strange malady is discovered while trying to jog, through to an eventual diagnosis of primary progressive multiple sclerosis...

Ferdinand Ries is a composer who is best known for writing a book about Beethoven; but during his lifetime Ries was regarded as one of the finest composers and piano virtuosi in Europe. Ries's father was one of Beethoven's most important teachers in Bonn, and Beethoven later gave Ries piano lessons in Vienna. Ries composed with great success in a range of genres, including several that Beethoven had made his own: the symphony, concerto, string quartet...

The miraculous triumvirate of 1685 (Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, all born that year) made a curious threesome. The German Handel went to Italy and became the greatest composer of Italian operas, Bach stayed at home to be outshone by his son, while Scarlatti fled Italy to escape his father's fame and became Spain's greatest undercover flamenco guitarist − all without leaving the keyboard. Secretive to a fault, Scarlatti's life is as elusive as his...

Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came to be seen by the leaders of the faltering anti-war movement as someone who was capable of reinvigorating it. The government was acutely aware of Lennon's power as well, seeing him as a viable threat to Nixon's reelection...

Subject: How to Get $4,027.50 Monthly as a Music Producer Do You Know How to Make Extra Money Online as a Musician? Leveraging New Technology and Online Platforms to Reach Your True Fans, Make Money Online, and Earn More as a Musician Years ago, I've realized that most successful musicians are following a really simple model of musician survival... Just understand the fact that there are almost 7 billion people in the world! All you need is to find...

Primer libro didáctico relativo al Book Scoring, el innovador sector para compositores que transforma las novelas en álbumes originales de bandas sonoras (original soundtrack álbum). Giuseppe Centonze, compositor, productor e ingeniero de sonido de la compañía Age Of Chronicles Music Productions, ha escrito y desarrollado este libro a petición de varios compositores absortos a emprender un recorrido en este nuevo sector.