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  • Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems

    by Vernon Duke, Boris Dralyuk ...
    “Passport to Paris is one of the great neglected memoirs of the 20th-century arts. The cosmopolitan composer Vernon Duke, born Vladimir Dukelsky, succeeded not only in living a mesmerizing life but also in telling his story with incomparable novelistic flair. A sampling of Duke’s California poetry augments the allure of an essential republication.”—Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise and ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The 40s: The Story of a Decade

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  • A Natural History of the Piano

    The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between

    by Stuart Isacoff ...
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  • February House

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    by Sherill Tippins ...
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  • Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923

    by Dorothy Parker ...
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  • The Leonard Bernstein Letters

    by Leonard Bernstein ...
    "With their intellectual brilliance, humor and wonderful eye for detail, Leonard Bernstein's letters blow all biographies out of the water."— The Economist (2013 Book of the Year)Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained international superstar status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals ( West Side Story), symphonies ( Age of Anxiety), ... Read more

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  • George Balanchine

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