by Martin Bookspan & Ross Yockey (1981)
Authorized biography of musician/conductor/composer, Andre Previn, focusing on the various aspects of Previn's musical talent.
Eric F. Jensen
Robert Schumann, a beloved composers of the Romantic movement, embodied the passion and imaginative spirit of his age. This biography recreates the dynamics of the man and his music, and offers insights into his final years and musical achievements.
Virginia Waring
Famous American, chorus leader, showman, glee club pioneer, golf tournament host, entrepreneur - the man who taught America how to sing! Fred Waring was all of these and more, an enigma who held together a major musical organization for sixty-seven years, a man at ease on stage but loathe to sit through meetings, a man so earnest in his patriotism that by the 1980s he was considered almost an endangered species. Virginia Waring, his wife of thirty years, chronicles both his many achievements and his shortcomings with candor and affection in Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Her gracefully written biography traces Waring's childhood in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, his rise to fame as a bandleader, development and promotion of the Waring Blendor, leadership of Shawnee Press, concert tours, radio and television programs, and his legacy of the highest possible standards in music as in life. This intimate portrait of an American legend is accompanied by a compact disc with twenty-eight selections recorded by the Pennsylvanians over a forty-year period.
P.H. Carder
"When the Civil War broke out in 1861, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" became perhaps the most common patriotic song echoing throughout the North. The author of that famous tune was George F. Root, and his many other patriotic songs established him as "the musician of the people.""--Provided by publisher.
written with Alan Lynton
This book consists chiefly of the authors reminiscences of his time with the Fairey Aviation Band. This band was one of a number of British brass bands consisting of employees from individual British businesses; one of the most well-known bands of this type is the Black Dyke Mills Band.