The mystics of Engelthal

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Mercedes Guerreiro et Jean Lemaître

Jeudi 25 avril 1974. Lisbonne. Les studios de Rádio Renascença. Programme ± Limite ». Minuit vingt minutes et dix-neuf secondes... À cet instant précis, un journaliste et un technicien trompent la censure et diffusent sur les ondes la chanson ± Grândola Vila Morena » de José Afonso. C’est le signal convenu, avec le mouvement clandestin des capitaines, pour lancer l’insurrection militaire contre le régime fasciste du Portugal.0Ce livre détaille la façon dont ce coup de maître a été réussi. Il retrace l’histoire de la chanson et de son auteur. 0Quarante ans se sont écoulés. ± Grândola Vila Morena » retrouve une seconde jeunesse. Au Portugal, et ailleurs en Europe, la chanson accompagne aujourd’hui les actions contre l’austérité sociale, devenant un hymne international d’union et d’espoir.

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[by] Alfred Brendel

Alfred Brendel reflects on Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, and Busoni, composers whose works figured prominently into his own repertoire as a pianist.

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Ralph J. Gleason

Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes (and heroines), from its founding fathers to the post-bebop generation, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.

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Granville Allen Mawer

"The Wild Colonial Boy -- a fictitious character or a badly corrupted version of Bold Jack Donohoe, a convict bushranger born in Dublin and killed in NSW in 1830? Before the first edition of this book appeared in 2004 the standard reference works were agreed that there was no bushranger called Jack Doolan or Dowling or Duggan active in the 1860s, but they were wrong. Allen Mawer had found John Doolan and confirmed that the song was right to say that he had been born in Castlemaine. Even more remarkably, Doolan's personal history had connections with the song. And how that came about was quite a story in itself."--Page 4 of cover.