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  The Devil and Miss Jones -...

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's The Devil and Miss Jones starring Lana Turner & Lionel Barrymore.

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  Beside Myself - An Actor's Life

  Antony Sher

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  A remarkably candid autobiography, utterly involving and often startlingly revelatory, Beside Myself is an inspiration to young actors and a treat for seasoned theatregoers.
  'I wish I'd read this book when I was starting out. Not only is Antony Sher one of the all-time greats of classical theatre, he also manages to be a writer of enormous skill and insight' David Tennant
  Actor, author, artist Antony Sher grew up in the Old South Africa with a profound sense of being an outsider. Small, Jewish and secretly gay, he found refuge in theatre and escaped to London aged just nineteen.
  In Beside Myself, Sher takes us to the heart of what it is to be an actor today, describing the journeys he undertakes in order to inhabit the roles for which he is famous - including The History Man (his TV breakthrough), Macbeth, Tamburlaine, Cyrano, Stanley Spencer and Richard III.
  This edition, published to mark the author's 60th birthday, includes a new foreword and epilogue.
  'the most unsparingly honest actor's autobiography I have ever read' Michael Billington, Guardian
  'An extraordinary work of self-exploration' Irish Times
  'A human, funny, nakedly direct memoir, beautifully written' Financial Times
  'Fascinating... No praise can be too high' Sunday Times
  'A masterclass. Any student or young actor could learn a great deal from studying Sher's extraordinarily thorough modus operandi' The Stage

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  History of Opera

  IntroBooks Team

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  Blending music, dance, visual arts and drama seamlessly to create one of the most interesting things that millions of audiences enjoy is what opera is all about. Its 400 year old history is rich with instances of rise and fall of opera. 
  With its roots in the Renaissance period, opera gradually spread across the world and today it has become a highly acclaimed form of art which is enjoyed by numerous people. There is no doubt that opera has gone through many changes in the course of time. 
  The singers and the quality of music, the orchestra the type of music that the audience enjoys and the voice of the singers continue to change in order to suit the demands of the audience. Opera has continued to develop by expanding the plots around which it was performed, the harmony and structure keeps changing as audiences change. 
  Earlier, the availability of resources were comparatively fewer too. This made operas simpler. Today, operas have access to technologies that can help them advance the manner in which music is used in the opera or the presentation of the entire opera. The effects created are very different from before as well. 
  The use of different stories from different cultures helped opera obtain a special uniqueness and add variety to the operas. With the help of this book, you will be able to understand the history of opera. The way in which it started and how it unfolded its beauty to the audience. The reactions of the audience to opera when it began. 
  We will then move to the different regions in which opera began to develop and how every region added their own touch to opera to give them a personalized feel and make them more alluring for the audience of a particular region. 
  With these additions to opera, it gradually began to become more interesting and it captured the attention of more audiences. 
  As its importance grows in different regions, opera plays a more important role and people begin to spread the word about it around the world. 
  The book will then take you through the current styles of opera and its presence in different parts of the world today. The manner in which opera has been formed today and how it has been affected from its past changes. 
  With this is mind, the book will conclude with a short description of the future of opera. The way in which people perceive it today and how the legacy of opera will be used in the future. 

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  Frank Sinatra

  Wink Martindale

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  We conclude our four part Hall of Fame spotlight on Frank Sinatra’s career with more little known details about the man and his music. In this installment, you’ll hear about the post-Columbia Records days when he was no longer in demand. He had no hits and no record contract -- that is, until Capitol Records came calling and everything changed.You’ll learn what it meant for a songwriter to have one of their songs recorded by Frank and why Sinatra recording sessions were a special thing for the musicians who were lucky enough to be a part of them. Featuring recollections from Sinatra himself as well as his family and associates, including U2’s Bono, Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra Jr., Jimmy Bowen, Don Costa and others, host Wink Martindale brings this examination of Frank Sinatra’s incredible career to a satisfying close.

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  Prairie Home Companion A: Duets 2

  Garrison Keillor

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  Duet singing continues to be one of the hallmarks of A Prairie Home Companion, America's favorite live radio variety show. Following in the grand tradition of the original A Prairie Home Companion Duets collection, Duets 2 gathers even more outstanding music performances from the show's archives, revealing the magic that occurs when two voices meet in front of a live audience.Performances include: 1. Dear Someone - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings2. My Little Girl in Tennessee - Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan3. Sleepless Nights – Garrison Keillor and Suzy Bogguss4. Love Hurts – Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller5. Out on the Western Plain – Jason and Pharis Romero6. Lying to the Moon - Robin and Linda Williams7. If You Were Mine – Garrison Keillor and Heather Masse8. Trouble on Alum – Jerry Douglas and Luke Bulla9. My Old Cottage Home – Mike Compton and Joe Newberry10. Bella and Ivan – Sara and Sean Watkins11. Hallelujah – MaMuse12. Love in Vain – Garrison Keillor and Heather Masse13. Way Downtown – Bryan Sutton and Casey Campbell14. Dizzy Fingers – Dick Hyman and Rob Fisher15. Will You Walk with Me – Anne and Pete Sibley16. Mary – Karan Casey and Aoife O’Donovan17. Love’s Old Sweet Song – Garrison Keillor and Aoife O’Donovan18. Fallen – Storyhill19. Western Plain (When I Was a Cowboy) – Heather Masse and Aoife O’Donovan20. Traditional Fiddle Medley – Sara Watkins and Richard Kriehn21. Sweet Tooth – Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

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  Brad Lansky and the Rogue Era

  J.D. Venne

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  “A before B, except after C” - a favorite saying of Carbon-Based A-life. Biological or ‘B-life’ was overtaken by A-life centuries ago and now the balance of power is at the tipping point. 
  An invisible rogue planet on a perfect collision course with Earth caught everyone by surprise, even GAIA. With nearly all forty billion humans still living on Earth, this time it really is the end of the world for B-life. 
  What is to be done? Moving a planet is beyond the combined capabilities of all of Sol System’s resources, and there is no ‘planet B’. Even worse, many class 12 AI’s don’t think B-life deserves to survive - after all, extinction in this universe is the rule, not the exception. 
  Does humanity deserve to survive? Does Earth? Does deserve have anything to do with it? 
  There is a woman, Brinn, a scientist who has scoured the entire DNA database for the best biological capabilities, plant and animal alike. These she integrated into her own biome, evolved to the pinnacle of B-life in a single package. She has lived to give B-life a fighting chance in a cruel cosmos.She will determine the nature of the Rogue Era.Track 1 - Brinn – Dr Diaz gives a talk on the future of Human biology. Brad listens in attentively. Track 2 – A World on Hold – An invisible rogue planet on a collision course with Earth catches everyone by surprise. Why is Brad the last to know?Track 3 – A New Subway Exit – The awful truth has sunk in and Earth is in chaos. Earth’s Armada departs for the rogue planet.Track 4 - Scapegoat – Mobs have bombed Brinn’s apartment. Is there anything left to live for?Track 5 – Rogue Planet – They go down to inspect one of the many large radio-active craters. They catch a glimpse of something blue below the surface when the machines attack.Track 6 – Hard Rain – Brinn returns to the crater and penetrates underground. Clearly this is where everything happens.Track 7 - BiAdmiral – They discuss the strange nature of the mysterious BiAdmiral – half AI, half human. Brinn produces evidence for a complex Carbon-based life form.Track 8 – Carbon Snob – The Vice-Admiral is not impressed with their findings. And his tone is worrisome. Surely any contribution should be welcomed with open arms?Track 9 - Them – Deciphering the machines’ language yields frequent references to a third person object, plural, gender unknown. Do the machines work for “them”?Track 10 – Another Actor – The BiAdmiral has dropped nuclear bombs on the planet. All information they share is treated with disdain.Track 11 – The Devil You Know – In his desperation Brad calls on Solefuge for help. Can this powerful AI’s ambitions be aligned with the needs of humanity?Track 12 – A Nose for Them – Brinn designs a sensor-molecule to find ‘them’. She needs the fleet to distribute the sensors, but to their horror the BiAdmiral announces operation ‘Save the Earth’.Track 13 – The Sleepers – In a brilliant flash of insight, Brinn manages to find them. With only a few hours left, she rushes to make contact, but Brad finds it difficult to say goodbye.Track 14 – Panspermia II – Thousands of craters erupt with rock and plasma.  And B-life.Track 15 – Brad 2.0 – Brad’s brainstate backup awakes in a new body. Change is the hallmark of the new Rogue Era.

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