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Eight-year-old Aven Green is despondent when she does not master the piano in one day, but with new inspiration from guitarist Mr. Tom, who is armless like her, along with a special gift from her great-grandma, Aven learns she does not need to be perfect to perform.
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Passports on this record can be placed on hold. The Community Passport is good for free admission for two to the National Museum of African American Music. Passports must be picked up in person at a library; they are not available digitally. Valid for 7 days after check out. If unused, please return to any Nashville Public Library.
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Born to a musical family outside of London and relocated to Liverpool, Costello created his own form of punk, became one of the first artists to exploit the newly burgeoning MTV video world, and managed to make himself a huge reputation in the U.K and the U.S. through his catchy tunes, provocative lyrics, and some instances of bad behavior. This is his story, written himself, rich with anecdotes about family and fellow musicians, and introspective...
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The Community Counts Passport is good for free admission for two to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Passports must be picked up in person at a library; they are not available digitally. Valid for 7 days after check out. If unused, please return to any Nashville Public Library. As part of Community Counts, children up to age 18 from Cheatham, Davidson, Sumner, Robertson, Rutherford, Williamson, and Wilson counties are admitted to the museum...
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"Two women. Two crimes. The first is a poet claiming she was assaulted decades earlier by a man now regarded as one of the country's national treasures. And the second is a girl found on a remote roadside, her body broken, her life snuffed out. For Alan Banks, newly promoted to Detective Superintendent, the first case rips a tunnel into long-ago days of innocence and discovery, of music and light. And in the victim, he sees an opportunity for magic...
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Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights. In another time and place, E. Gab Blackman and William Sousa "Sou" Bridgeforth might have been as close as brothers, but in 1950s Nashville they remained separated by the color of their skin. Gab, a visionary yet opportunistic radio executive, saw something no one...
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This program spotlights two composers who use technology to manipulate and sequence the elements that make up their songs. Talvin Singh gives traditional Indian musical rhythms and dance moves a modern twist by mixing tabla tracks with the highly synthesized, repetitive loops of acid house music, while Jocelyn Pook mixes the found sounds of soccer cheers and catcalls with the strains of a string quartet and the vocal majesty of a choir. The results...
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This program proceeds from the early music of the Eastern churches to the establishment of music as part of the Christian liturgy; the influence of Pope Gregory and the first composers for the Church; Notre-Dame de Paris and other religious centers; Leonin, Perotin, Guillaume de Machaut; the birth of secular song; Walther von der Vogelweide, Landini, Dunstable, and Dufay. Includes excerpts from: Traditional Gregorian, Hebrew, and Greek chants; Leonin's...
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This program presents two approaches to composing chart-topping songs. Members of The Corrs, representing an organic approach where melody, chorus, and lyrics are developed closely together, describe classic pop structure and the genesis and evolution of their hit song "Would You Be Happier?" covering instrumentation and vocals as well as building and mixing tracks. Garage artists DJ Luck and MC Neat, representing a modular approach where elements...
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Form- the way music is organized and structured from beginning to end- guides composers, performers, and listeners in all musics. Here, the traditional Western sonata, the blueprints behind improvisational jazz, the narrative structure of traditional Japanese music, call-and-response forms in West African music and American gospel, and Irish fiddle tunes exemplify worldwide variations in musical form.