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Quartet for the End of Time
Language: en
Pages: 588
Authors: Johanna Skibsrud
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-23 - Publisher: Penguin Canada

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The year is 1932, and America is roiling with unrest. Angry WWI veterans, embittered by the ruinous poverty inflicted by the Great Depression, join forces and,
For the End of Time
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Rebecca Rischin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Rischin lovingl
The Rest Is Noise
Language: en
Pages: 706
Authors: Alex Ross
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-16 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book
Messiaen
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Anthony Pople
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An examination of the popular Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen.
Music for the End of Time
Language: en
Pages: 32
Authors: Jennifer Bryant
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company

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Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.