UID:
almafu_9960964557502883
Format:
1 online resource (221 p.)
ISBN:
1-62674-091-7
Series Statement:
Caribbean studies series
Uniform Title:
Waarom elf Antillianen knielden voor het hart van Chopin.
Content:
This is not your usual music handbook. The book's curious sub-title refers to the presence of eleven Antilleans at the service held in the Warsaw church to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin's death in October 1999 where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, whilst the rest of his mortal remains lie in Paris. The item which Brokken had read in a German newspaper triggered him to start writing the book based on notes he had been taking while living on Curacao from 1993 to 2002.
Note:
Originally published: Waarom elf Antillianen knielden voor het hart van Chopin / Jan Brokken. Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, ©2005.
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Cover; Contents; Translator's Note; 1. A Polish Prelude; 2. You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can't You?; 3. The Faintest Idea; 4. Geniuses of the Right Hand; 5. A Port of Transit; 6. As Melancholic as a Sunset; 7. Which One of the Three?; 8. Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me; 9. The Virtuoso Nomad; 10. An Island of Defaulters; 11. The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather; 12. A Wrong Modulation; 13. The Palms; 14. Your Tempi!; 15. Every Child Brings Its Own Bread; 16. Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes; 17. Shon May and Shon Max; 18. Sensuous Movement; 19. Max and the Shark; 20. The Rebels
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21. The New Woman 22. Curfew; 23. My Sister the Negress; 24. Spy; 25. Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos; 26. Music Everywhere; 27. Chick Corea; 28. Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber; 29. Mazurka Erotika; 30. The Tumba Queen; 31. End of an Era; 32. Bal Colonial; 33. The Pilgrimage; 34. The Trade Wind in My Ears; 35. The Bastard Son; Glossary; Sources and Bibliography; Discography; Index;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-62846-185-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
