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Author : Adam Rapp
Release : 1994
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Missing the Piano by : Adam Rapp
Download or read book Missing the Piano written by Adam Rapp. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mike's mother and sister go on tour with "Les Miserables, " Mike's father and his new wife enroll Mike in St. Matthew's Military Academy where, facing brutality and ignorance, he learns to survive.
Author : Sophy Roberts
Release : 2020-08-04
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 308/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lost Pianos of Siberia by : Sophy Roberts
Download or read book The Lost Pianos of Siberia written by Sophy Roberts. This book was released on 2020-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux
Author : Juha Virta
Release : 2018-03-06
Genre : Animals
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Piano by : Juha Virta
Download or read book The Piano written by Juha Virta. This book was released on 2018-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when a piano shows up in your yard? Take a cat-nap? Use it as a coffee table? What's a band to do when one of its instruments goes missing? And what does a yellow sock have to do with anything?
Author : Adam Rapp
Release : 1996-01-01
Genre : Boarding schools
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 218/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Missing the Piano by : Adam Rapp
Download or read book Missing the Piano written by Adam Rapp. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mike's mother and sister go on tour with "Les Miserables", Mike's father and his new wife enroll Mike in St. Matthew's Military Academy where, facing brutality and ignorance, he learns to survive.
Author : André Leblanc
Release : 2009
Genre : Children's stories
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 017/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Red Piano by : André Leblanc
Download or read book The Red Piano written by André Leblanc. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of the renowned pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution.
