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English
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A talented songwriter, Shawn Gallagher spends his days lost in reverie and wonder, oblivious to the wiles of women and the ways of the world. He claims that he's content with his life, but his music tells a different story--one of loneliness and desperate longing... No one understands why Shawn doesn't put his musical gift to profitable use--least of all Brenna O'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who has been secretly in love with him for years....
2) Crazy heart
Author
Language
English
Description
Singer and guitarist Bad Blake was once a first-rate country-and-western star, but now he's 57, an alcoholic, a failure at four marriages, and playing in third-rate clubs. The biggest gig he can get is opening for Tommy Sweet, the kid Bad got started and whose career has now eclipsed Bad's. Bad meets Jean Craddock when she comes to interview him and they fall in love. Her little boy, Buddy, inspires Bad to search for his own long-lost son, but there's...
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Larry is a chronically unsatisfied ex-pat residing on a remote island village in the Mediterranean. The tiny village is famous for having been the home of one of Europe's most celebrated composers. Desperate to make his mark Larry stages a gala concert as a tribute to the late composer. With his kooky entourage in tow, Larry must learn to balance all the harmonies of his life and deliver his own masterpiece.
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Language
English
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"From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time--that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the early 2000s. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great...
7) Tár
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
11) Kiss me, stupid
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Two would-be songwriters hijack Dino as he passes through their town. Their attempts to charm him into listening to their songs encounter a problem when one man's wife is the head of Martin's fan club. A substitute is hired to claim his attentions. Things do not exactly work out as planned.
12) Ecstasy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era ... Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as "one of the very few magical women that exist." But who was this woman who brought these most...
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Language
English
Description
Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered....
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Language
English
Description
Taking the stage that evening, Daisy Justine had no idea that she was auditioning for her life. Watching from the darkness beyond the footlights was the world-famous composer Jason Hayes. The reclusive genius was seeking a new star to play the tragic heroine in his latest work, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. From the moment he heard her sing, Jason knew he'd found the star he'd been searching for his whole life. But coaxing her from Geneva...
15) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A compelling drama/documentary about the tragic life of this musical genius. Conductor Charles Hazelwood examines the anguished life and suspicious death of Tchaikovsky in this fascinating series based on the composer's letters and diaries. The bonus feature is an episode of the television program Omnibus, which examines the controversy surrounding the composer's death.
17) Amsterdam
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the affairs of his dead wife, a British publisher discovers compromising pictures of the foreign secretary who was her lover, presenting an opportunity for revenge on both the political and personal level.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
1st movie: Bing Crosby plays a champion rodeo rider who discovers a runaway heiress hiding out in his boxcar heading out West. Includes the song 'I'm an old cowhand'.
2nd movie: The story of a composer of hit songs who is in demand by the people who produce musical shows. His work is actually done by ghostwriters (Crosby and Martin) who try to break loose on their own.
19) The hearing test
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, an artist in her late twenties keeps a record of her year-one filled with a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters--as she reorients her relationship to the world while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.