When fourteen-year-old Laura is diagnosed with leukemia, her younger brother James knows he has to do something to help her battle her silent enemy. But what can a fifth-grade boy possibly contribute to an all-out war against cancer? A random conversation with his school's custodian leads James to understand that giving a patient hope can be a valuable weapon in the fight for survival. With support from his best friend Luke, James jumps headfirst into Project Laura-a roller-coaster effort ...

Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia.Since its appearance in 1960 in German, Mahler has established itself as a classic of musical...

Jackie Reilly lost her father in a catastrophic stock car racing accident and gained a brother the same day. With no one left, she follows him to a prestigious boarding school where she strikes up an unlikely friendship and romance with the school bad boy. But Danny Mackenzie isn’t everything he seems.All but abandoned at a boarding school by his father, Danny Mackenzie is ready to be out of his prison until the mysterious and haunted Jackie Reilly shows up as his nemesis’ long los...

A stone that grants eternal life. It's her job to keep it safe. It's his job to protect her at all costs.Jack Justice didn’t believe in love or the power of the human spirit and was fresh out of faith. But that all changed when he saved Lady Nora from bandits and discovered she was the Guardian of a Philosopher’s Stone. He had never met her before, but she haunted his dreams for as long as he could remember.With the gift of eternal life, Nora has been searc...

A stone that grants eternal life. It's her job to keep it safe. It's his job to protect her at all costs.Jack Justice didn't believe in love or the power of the human spirit and was fresh out of faith. But that all changed when he saved Lady Nora from bandits and discovered she was the Guardian of a Philosopher's Stone. He had never met her before, but she haunted his dreams for as long as he could remember.With the gift of eternal life, Nora has been searc...

Gustav Mahler wird heute mehr denn je als »Wegbereiter der Neuen Musik« gefeiert. Wie kaum ein anderer Komponist des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts ist er kometengleich ins Zentrum der musikalischen Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Mahlers Musik ist ein Abenteuer, so schön und furchterregend, so beschaulich und unberechenbar wie die Welt, von der sie redet. Zu Lebzeiten war Gustav Mahler eher als mächtiger Hofoperndirektor und weniger als Komponist bekannt, denn eigene Werke konnte er nur während der...

Hay razones para considerar a Gustav Mahler el mayor creador musical del siglo xx, a pesar de que su muerte se produjo cuando apenas comenzaba la segunda década del mismo, pero la audacia de su lenguaje, su riqueza expresiva, sus estallidos de fatalismo, de angustia agónica y también de alegría desatada, le sitúan como testigo de excepción de una época especialmente conflictiva. Rigurosa y erudita, esta biografía realizada por el musicólogo José Luis Pérez de Arteaga, acompañada de un estu...

Ho scelto a sottotitolo di questo mio studio sulla figura di Gustav Mahler la straordinaria epigrafe di questo lied mahleriano, certo fra i più belli scritti dal grande maestro. La vetta di tutta la raccolta dei meravigliosi Rückertlieder. Il suo testo descrive in sunto assai bene anche i patemi personali di Gustav Mahler: “Sono perduto ormai per il mondo, col quale prima avevo sprecato molto tempo; ora da tanto non ha più sentito parlare di me, e forse si anche è...

En este an�lisis profundo, Gast�n Soublette explora la obra de Gustav Mahler, un compositor atrapado entre la felicidad y el dolor, cuya m�sica refleja la complejidad humana y la fragilidad de su �poca.

Welcome to The Independent's new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.Extracted from Michael Steen's book The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, these concise guides, selected by The Independent's editorial team, explore the lives of composers as diverse as Mozart and Puccini, reaching from Bach to Brahms, set against the social, historical and political forces which affected them, to give a rounded portrait of what it was...

À Vienne, l’art s’affole, la musique s’invente, les conventions volent en éclats. Alma Mahler traverse les cercles littéraires et artistiques, bouscule les génies et façonne sa propre légende. Compositrice sacrifiée, épouse de trois génies – Mahler, Gropius, Werfel –, égérie de Klimt et amante de Kokoschka, elle incarne les contradictions d'une époque mouvante. Entre salons viennois et exil américain, création étouffée et influence déterminante, elle navigue dans les cercles les plus prest...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), maestro rigoroso e compositor brilhante, é um dos maiores expoentes do romantismo na música clássica e uma das personalidades mais admiradas de nossos dias. O seu ciclo sinfônico é repertório obrigatório em qualquer orquestra respeitável, na vida de qualquer estudante de composição orquestral e no percurso de qualquer maestro de renome. Mahler é, sem dúvida alguma, um dos mais influentes compositores dos últimos 100 anos, criador de melodias singulares e inimitáv...