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When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he realized that his passion for this music was not enough. He needed to understand it. Take Bach, for starters. Who was he? How does one account for his music and its unshakeable hold on us today?
As a critic, Tommasini has devoted particular attention to living composers and overlooked repertory. But, like all classical music lovers, the canon has remained central for him. In 2011, in his role as the Chief Classical Music Critic for the New York Times, he wrote a popular series in which he somewhat cheekily set out to determine the all-time top ten composers. Inviting input from readers, Tommasini wrestled with questions of greatness. Readers joined the exercise in droves. Some railed against classical music’s obsession with greatness but then raged when Mahler was left off the final list. This intellectual game reminded them why they loved music in the first place.
Now in THE INDISPENSABLE COMPOSERS, Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon--and what greatness really means in classical music. What does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it? To make his case, Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time. Because he has spent his life contemplating these titans, Tommasini shares impressions from performances he has heard or given or moments when his own biography proves revealing.
As he argues for his particular pantheon of indispensable composers, Anthony Tommasini provides a masterclass in what to listen for and how to understand what music does to us.
When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he realized that his passion for this music was not enough. He needed to understand it. Take Bach, for starters. Who was he? How does one account for his music and its unshakeable hold on us today?
As a critic, Tommasini has devoted particular attention to living composers and overlooked repertory. But, like all classical music lovers, the canon has remained central for him. In 2011, in his role as the Chief Classical Music Critic for the New York Times, he wrote a popular series in which he somewhat cheekily set out to determine the all-time top ten composers. Inviting input from readers, Tommasini wrestled with questions of greatness. Readers joined the exercise in droves. Some railed against classical music’s obsession with greatness but then raged when Mahler was left off the final list. This intellectual game reminded them why they loved music in the first place.
Now in THE INDISPENSABLE COMPOSERS, Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon--and what greatness really means in classical music. What does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it? To make his case, Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time. Because he has spent his life contemplating these titans, Tommasini shares impressions from performances he has heard or given or moments when his own biography proves revealing.
As he argues for his particular pantheon of indispensable composers, Anthony Tommasini provides a masterclass in what to listen for and how to understand what music does to us.
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A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century.
Although he died at just forty-eight, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.
Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum.
Award-winning writer Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz vividly chronicles how Mütter’s efforts helped establish Philadelphia as a global mecca for medical innovation—despite intense resistance from his numerous rivals. (Foremost among them: Charles D. Meigs, an influential obstetrician who loathed Mütter’s "overly" modern medical opinions.) In the narrative spirit of The Devil in the White City, Dr. Mütter’s Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148080398131772351.post-90108730619614752932014-08-22T13:59:00.002-07:002014-08-22T13:59:50.559-07:00Dr Eben Alexander "Proof of Heaven"Eben Alexander III (born December 11, 1953) is an American neurosurgeon and the author of the best-selling Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, in which he describes his 2008 near-death experience and asserts that science can and will determine that heaven really does exist.
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Alexander is the author of the 2012 autobiographical book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, in which he asserts that his out of body and near death experience (NDE) while in a meningitis-induced coma in 2008 proves that consciousness is independent of the brain, that death is a transition, and that an eternity of perfect splendor awaits us beyond the grave – complete with angels, clouds, and departed relatives, but also including butterflies and a beautiful girl in peasant dress who Alexander finds out later was his departed sister. He further asserts that the current understanding of the mind.<br />
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A neurosurgeon’s first-person account of his near-death experience after an E. coli meningitis-related seizure and seven-day coma will reassure afterlife believers, though it is unlikely to convince skeptics. Alexander’s credentials are impressive: medical school at Duke and 15 years at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. But to agnostics and atheists, Alexander may not come across as a completely objective observer. He writes that he attended his Episcopal church even as he questioned how God, heaven, and an afterlife could exist, yet the heaven he describes seeing certainly seems like a biblical one; a typical line is, “the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above.” His story includes interesting asides about past struggles with alcohol and with adoption. (His birth mother delivered him when she was 16 and for years did not want to meet him.) But the book mostly focuses on religion. It ends with a request to support Eternea, Alexander’s nonprofit that has as its mission, “increasing global acceptance of the reality of our eternal spiritual existence . . . under an all-loving God.” For believers, not skeptics. --Karen Springen (amazon link review)<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=eben%20alexander&linkCode=as2&tag=ncdn&linkId=SJSTHEFHO5MHHQO7"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1451695195&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ncdn" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=as2&o=1" height="1" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148080398131772351.post-88999887013740943052011-06-10T12:40:00.001-07:002011-06-10T12:40:57.818-07:00McCullough, The Greater Journey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C9kCSMcYioA/TfJxgN-30gI/AAAAAAAAADI/_VyvHmGSWgk/s1600/mccullough.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C9kCSMcYioA/TfJxgN-30gI/AAAAAAAAADI/_VyvHmGSWgk/s200/mccullough.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=ncdn&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=David%20McCullough" target="_blank">David Gaub McCullough</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> born July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Johnstown-Flood-Once-Eagle-Ammie/dp/B000NCW2F6?ie=UTF8&tag=ncdn&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Johnstown Flood (1968)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000NCW2F6" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />; and he has since written eight more on such topics as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/TRUMAN-David-About-Truman-McCullough/dp/B002J7TW88?ie=UTF8&tag=ncdn&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Harry S Truman</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002J7TW88" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/John-Adams-David-McCullough/dp/141657588X?ie=UTF8&tag=ncdn&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">John Adams</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=141657588X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, and the<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Great-Bridge-Story-Building-Brooklyn/dp/0743217373?ie=UTF8&tag=ncdn&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"> Brooklyn Bridge</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0743217373" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. McCullough has also narrated multiple documentaries, as well as the 2003 film<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=ncdn&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=dvd%20Seabiscuit" target="_blank"> Seabiscuit</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />; and he hosted American Experience for twelve years. McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, Truman and John Adams, have been adapted by HBO into a TV film and a mini-series, respectively. McCullough's most recent work, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Greater-Journey-Americans-Paris/dp/1416571760?ie=UTF8&tag=ncdn&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Greater Journey</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1416571760" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, about Americans in Paris from the 1830s to the 1900s, was released on May 24th, 2011.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At first glance,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">might seem to be foreign territory for David McCullough, whose other books have mostly remained in the Western Hemisphere. But</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Greater Journey</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">is still a quintessentially American history. Between 1830 and 1900, hundreds of Americans--many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, and Harriet Beecher Stowe--migrated to Paris. McCullough shows first how the City of Light affected each of them in turn, and how they helped shape American art, medicine, writing, science, and politics in profound ways when they came back to the United States. McCullough's histories have always managed to combine meticulous research with sheer enthusiasm for his subjects, and it's hard not to come away with a sense that you've learned something new and important about whatever he's tackled.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Greater Journey is</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, like each of McCullough's previous histories, a dazzling and kaleidoscopic foray into American history by one of its greatest living chroniclers. --</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Darryl Campbell</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148080398131772351.post-13809508977435476002011-06-02T12:06:00.001-07:002011-06-02T12:10:24.194-07:00Failing Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-89DKHBnIvCY/Tefa0JL5NvI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/OWUaO7x8cVw/s1600/TavisSmiley1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-89DKHBnIvCY/Tefa0JL5NvI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/OWUaO7x8cVw/s1600/TavisSmiley1.jpg" /></a></div><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ncdn&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1401933904&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=FFFFFF&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe><br />
Tavis Smiley (pronounced /ˈtævɨs/; born September 13, 1964) is a talk show host, author, political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi and grew up in Kokomo, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996 he hosted the talk show BET Talk (later renamed BET Tonight) on BET. Controversially, after Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew Smiley's contract that year. Smiley then began hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR from 2002 to 2004 and currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS and "The Tavis Smiley Show" from PRI. Most recently, he and close friend Dr. Cornel West have joined forces for their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West". They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film Still Bill.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Charles Augustus Briggs (January 15, 1841 – June 8, 1913), American Presbyterian scholar and theologian, was born in New York City. In 1892 he was tried for heresy by the presbytery of New York, including James McCook, and acquitted. The charges were based upon his inaugural address of the preceding year....read more:</span><br />
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