Results for: books tagged ‘Diaries’
Projections 3: John Boorman and Walter Donohue
Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. The centrepiece of this issue is the journals of Francis Ford Coppola, whose films, ... More
Debussy Remembered: Roger Nichols
One of an absorbing series of anthologies of personal recollections and reminiscences of great composers, Roger Nichols's book gathers together the testimonies of some sixty people - relatives, friends and ... More
Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Benjamin Britten
Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, ... More
Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902: Antony Beaumont
Born in 1879 in Vienna, Alma Mahler-Werfel was the daughter of the popular landscape painter, Emil J. Schindler. Her stepfather, Carl Moll, was instrumental in forming the Secession movement and ... More
Time Within Time: Andrei Tarkovsky
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife: Gustav Mahler
Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating and ambivalent of twentieth-century women. Her book Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (1940) includes 159 of Mahler's letters, yet only 37 of ... More
Untold Stories: Alan Bennett
Untold Stories is Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home and takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant ... More
Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1915-1923: Sergey Prokofiev
Volume 2 of Prokofiev’s Diaries extends across a momentous epoch in Europe, in the great composer's life and the development of his art. More
The Last Cigarette: Simon Gray
Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without ... More
Adrian Boult: Michael Kennedy
Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1983) was one of the greatest English conductors. He had a long association with the BBC, as director of music, and, more famously, as the permanent conductor ... More
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