Shining Night

Shining Night
Author: Alena Pitts
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0310760674

Shining Night is book three in the Faithgirlz series Lena in the Spotlight, written by Alena Pitts, star of The War Room and tween blogger of For Girls Like You, and co-written with her mother, editor and author Wynter Pitts. In this fiction story that will appeal to young girls who have big dreams, Lena’s story continues as she must determine how to best use her fame for the greater good. Shining Night is: perfect for young fans of realistic fiction for readers ages 8-12 suited for summer reading, as a birthday or Christmas gift, or as inspirational reading In Shining Night, Lena’s overnight fame as an actress continues to pull her into the spotlight, while teaching her what it means to shine for God. Now she’s faced with her biggest challenge yet. When Lena’s favorite music artist, Mallory Winston, sends her a gift box filled with photos and memories of their time on tour together, Lena finds out that the hospital they visited is closing and many of the children and friends she met there may not receive the ongoing care they need. How will Lena and her besties help the children at the hospital face their challenges? If you enjoy Shining Night, check out the first two books in the Lena in the Spotlight series: Hello Stars Day Dreams and Movie Screens

Heavenly Wars

Heavenly Wars
Author:
Publisher: Josefina Hernandez
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2024-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1651870314

Before the Universe was created by the Almighty God, there was peace in the Holy Jerusalem. Until one cataclysmic moment. Buried in the inner workings of what seems to be peace., Prince Archangel Lucifer is brewing an evil plot to overthrow the Kingdom of God. Slowly, but surely he builds his dark angelic army in the hopes of over throwing the God's Kingdom. Now, faced with the toughest challenge ever, the holy angelic army is forced to flight against those they once had called their "brothers." In the midst of up evil, Chief Prince Archangel Michael is commission by his Lord to lead the First Heavenly War against Satan and his dark angelic army. As disheartening as their betrayal has been, an ancient prophecy had predicted the victor of the heavenly war of wars.

Knights in Shining Armor

Knights in Shining Armor
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2008-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0316049832

A look at the life of knights in the Middle Ages and a collection of tales about their adventures.

Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber
Author: Barbara B. Heyman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190863757

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely independent of worldwide trends and the avant-garde, he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His rich legacy includes every genre, including the famous Adagio for Strings, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, three concertos, a plethora of songs, and two operas, the Pulitzer prize-winning Vanessa, and Antony and Cleopatra, the commissioned work that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966. Generously documented by letter, sketches, autograph manuscripts, and interviews with friends, colleagues, and performers with whom he worked, this ASCAP-Award winning book is still unquestionably the most authoritative biography on Barber, covering his entire career and interweaving the events of his life with his compositional process. This second edition benefits from many new discoveries, including a Violin Sonata recovered from an artist's estate, a diary Barber kept his seventeenth year, a trove of letters and manuscripts that were recovered from a suitcase found in a dumpster, documentation that dispels earlier myths about the composition of Barber's Violin Concerto, and research of scholars that was stimulated by Heyman's work. Barber's intimate relations are discussed when they bear on his creativity. A testament to the lasting significance of Romanticism, Samuel Barber stands as a model biography of an important musical figure.

A Knight in Shining Armor

A Knight in Shining Armor
Author: Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451665636

From a "New York Times"-bestselling author and today's most admired storyteller, here is an unforgettable tale of a most miraculous love affair: a meeting of passion, wit, and true romance between a thoroughly modern woman--and a man who lived 400 years before.

Sure on This Shining Night

Sure on This Shining Night
Author: Samuel Barber
Publisher: G Schirmer, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780634058103

The classic artsong by Samuel Barber is now available in an easy choral edition. Ideal for developing ensembles in middle and high school. Available for: SATB and SA.

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting
Author: José Antonio Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2003-11-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521527910

In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.

Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber
Author: Wayne Wentzel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135271828

An annotated reference guide to Barber's life, works and achievements, it will prove valuable for anyone seeking information on him.

Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber
Author: Howard Pollack
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2023-04-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0252054059

A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of conductors like Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. Barber’s works have since become standard concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (Aaron Copland, George Gershwin) offers a multifaceted account of Barber’s life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural milieu. Born into a musical family, Barber pursued his artistic ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber’s path from his precocious youth through a career where, from the start, the composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like the Adagio for Strings, the Violin Concerto, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for voice and orchestra, the Piano Concerto, and the operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra, stand alongside revealing accounts of the music’s commissioning, performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in accounts of Barber’s encounters with colleagues like Aaron Copland and Francis Poulenc, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne Price to Vladimir Horowitz and Van Cliburn, patrons, admirers, and a wide circle of eminent friends and acquaintances. He also provides an eloquent portrait of the composer’s decades-long relationship with the renowned opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Informed by new interviews and immense archival research, Samuel Barber is a long-awaited critical and personal biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American music.