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Title: Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon

Author: David McGowan

Narrator: Bill Fike

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-17

Publisher: Headpress

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times.

Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, CSN, Three Dog Night, and Love, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor, and Carole King, lived together and jammed together in the bucolic community nestled in the Hollywood Hills.

But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn't make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians, and intelligence personnel - the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all the canyon's colorful characters - rock stars, hippies, murderers, and politicos - happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.

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Title: The Little and the Great Things

Author: Frederic Chopin, Blaise Pascal, Anton Kingsbury

Narrator: Josh Verbae

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-17

Publisher: Interactive Media

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

The Little and the Great Things includes a reading of the eponymous prayer followed by beautiful piano music based on an original composition of Frederic Chopin. The piano composition includes Nocturne in G Major, Op. 37 No. 2 - Andantino. The nocturne is painted with Chopin's most ethereal brush, characterised by beautiful sensuousness and luscious soft, rounded tones, and not without a certain degree of languor. Something of the warmer Mediterranean climate gently flows into the composer's pen here, perhaps reflective of Chopin's stay on the island of Majorca. This is an example of Chopin's music acting as an aphrodisiac. Performed by Anton Kingsbury.

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Titolo: Konstanze - la moglie di Mozart 1

Autore: Eduardo Rescigno

Narratore: Luca Sandri, Sandra Ceriani, Umberto Pellegatta, Adele Piovani Zoia, Tosawi Craig, Mimmo di Bono

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 13 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 08-17-16

Editore: Fonderia Mercury srl

Categoria: Arts & Entertainment, Music

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Si parla di Mozart, e si sentono molte pagine della sua musica. Ma il filo conduttore è rappresentato da Konstanze Weber, che Amadé sposa nel 1782, quando lui ha 25 anni, e lei 20. Si delinea il ritratto di donna in formazione, dapprima poco più di una bambina, poi una ragazza piena di seduzioni, una moglie che conserva il piacere del gioco e mette in secondo piano i fastidiosi doveri di una donna di casa, alla quale Mozart resterà sempre molto legato, fino al giorno della morte, nel 1791, quando lui ha 35 anni, e lei 29. Poi il ritratto di una donna spaventata dal baratro dei debiti lasciati dal marito, una vedova che, facendosi coraggio, si impegna a fondo per la sopravvivenza sua e dei due figli e nello stesso tempo elabora un ardito progetto per la diffusione della musica ancora sconosciuta del marito, impegnandosi come organizzatrice e perfino come cantante. Infine, col secondo matrimonio avvenuto nel 1809 con il segretario d'ambasciata von Nissen, Konstanze si trasforma in una abile amministratrice del patrimonio costituito dagli inediti mozartiani e coautrice di una importante biografia del Maestro.

Regia di Silvano Piccardi.

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Title: Backstage with Bryan Rooney

Author: Bryan Rooney

Narrator: Bryan Rooney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-14

Publisher: Ariey Production

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

Haven't you always wanted to go backstage? Englishman Bryan Rooney is your personal guide through the highs and lows of the music business as he experienced it, starting where rock 'n' roll begain: Liverpool in the 1960s. As one of the first roadies ever, Bryan tells firsthand about life on and off the road - and around the world - with Procol Harum, Reinhard Mey, The Beatles, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon, Donna Summer, and more. Join this master storyteller as he takes you from concert riots in the Frisian Islands and Milan, through the hallways of Tittenhurst Park, to being pulled over by Malibu cops in an Excalibur with a drunken Keith Moon wearing a Nazi uniform. Celebrate Bryan's wedding with his best man Ringo Starr, and fly the Concorde with sausages for John Lennon. BackStage is your pass to this whirlwind adventure.

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Title: Van Dyke Parks' 'Song Cycle' (33 1/3 Series)

Author: Richard Henderson

Narrator: Marc Vietor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

Posing more riddles than the average sphinx, with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark, Song Cycle was anything but passive. I had already witnessed hippie bands playing with their backs to the hall, so the thought of late '60s musicians being interested in their audience struck me as a concept bordering on revolutionary.

The debut album from songwriter and pianist Van Dyke Parks, Song Cycle first appeared in 1968 on Warner Brothers Records. Its 12 songs led listeners through Joycean wordplay and sound collages to reveal messages of dissent and personal loss, at odds with Parks' buoyant, riotously eclectic music. Monumentally ambitious and equally expensive, Song Cycle resembled a film possibly Citizen Kane more than the pop music of its day; like Kane, Parks' masterwork was adored by critics yet all but ignored by paying customers.

In his efforts to plumb the mysteries of this quixotic record and its subsequent fate, Richard Henderson interviews several of the key figures involved with Song Cycle, notably Parks himself and producer Lenny Waronker.

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Title: Nick Drake's Pink Moon (33 1/3 Series)

Author: Amanda Petrusich

Narrator: Ben Remeaka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

Amanda Petrusich is a writer for Pitchforkmedia.com and a senior contributing editor at Paste magazine. She is the author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music, a travelogue about early Americana music forthcoming from Faber and Faber in 2008. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. (A task which can be, as Elvis Costello famously observed, as tricky as dancing about architecture.) What binds this series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors - musicians, scholars, and writers - are deeply in love with the album they have ch...

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Title: The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Series)

Author: Joe Harvard

Narrator: Marc Vietor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than almost any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967.

In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation, and from the creative input of Andy Warhol to the fine details of the recording process. With input from co-producer Norman Dolph and Velvets fan Jonathan Richman, Harvard documents the creation of a record which, in the eyes of many, has never been matched.

Joe Harvard was co-founder and owner of Fort Apache Studios. Voted Boston's Best Producer, his playing appears on numerous records by bands including Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, and the Pernice Brothers.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music.

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Title: A Romance on Three Legs

Author: Katie Hafner

Narrator: William Coon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-13

Publisher: Katie Hafner

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

Hugely talented and famously eccentric, pianist Glenn Gould fought a running battle with a long list of less than perfect pianos. A Romance on Three Legs is the story of a love that changed Gould's life: his partnership with the Steinway CD 318, a piano whose peculiar action and temperament ushered Gould closer than ever to interpretive perfection. Katie Hafner weaves the compelling tale of Gould, his favorite piano, and the men who worked on it, revealing new details and nuances in the work and mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists.

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Title: We Will Survive

Author: Gloria Gaynor, Sue Carswell

Narrator: Gloria Gaynor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

Nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

Gloria Gaynors #1 hit single "I Will Survive" debuted in 1978 to overwhelming success. Shortly thereafter, the single went double platinum and over three decades later still strikes a chord among men and women everywhere.

Over the years, the disco legend has received thousands of personal messages from adoring fans whose lives have been transformed by this timeless song. Their remarkable stories reveal that "I Will Survive" has reached people from all walks of life and touched their lives in thousands of unique ways. From individuals triumphing over illness to those suffering from the painful loss of a loved one to others piecing their lives together after bearing witness to national tragedy, "I Will Survive" has become an emotional anthem for them and for millions of Gaynor's adoring fans around the world.

In We Will Survive, Gloria shares forty of these inspirational, true stories about survivors of all kindsindividuals who have found comfort, hope, and courage through the power of this one song.

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Title: MJ

Author: Steve Knopper

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

From the moment in 1965 when he first stepped onstage with his brothers at a local talent show in Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson was destined to become the undisputed king of pop. In a career spanning four decades, he became a global icon, selling over 400 million albums, earning 13 Grammy Awards, and spinning dance moves that captivated the world.

Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper delves deeply into Michael Jackson's music and talent. From the artist's early days with the Jackson 5 to his stratospheric success as a solo artist,to "Beat It" and "Thriller", "Bad", and "The Man in the Mirror", to his volatile final years, his attempted comeback, and his untimely death, Knopper explores the beguiling and often contradictory forces that fueled Michael Jackson's genius. Drawing on an amazing 400 interviews, this critical biography puts all the elements of his career into perspective and celebrates his triumph in art and music.

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