Ricky Ian Gordon – Seeing Through (EPUB)
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Title: Seeing Through
Author: Ricky Ian Gordon
Language: English
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374605735
Subjects: Biography, Music, Film & Performing Arts, General & Miscellaneous Biography, Entertainment Biography, Opera, Biography – General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Entertainment Biography, Opera – General & Miscellaneous
Author: Ricky Ian Gordon
Language: English
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374605735
Subjects: Biography, Music, Film & Performing Arts, General & Miscellaneous Biography, Entertainment Biography, Opera, Biography – General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Entertainment Biography, Opera – General & Miscellaneous
The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of “a life that comes out of chaos.”
At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’s bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades, its polestar remained constant. Music has been the guiding force of Gordon’s life; through it, he has been able not only to survive great sorrow but also to capture the depths of his emotion in song. It is this strength, this technical and visceral genius, that has made him one of our generation’s greatest composers.
In Seeing Through, Gordon writes with humor, insight, and incredible candor about his life and work: a tumultuous youth on Long Island, his artistic collaborations and obsessions, the creation of his compositions (including The Grapes of Wrath, 27, Orpheus and Euridice, Intimate…
At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’s bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades, its polestar remained constant. Music has been the guiding force of Gordon’s life; through it, he has been able not only to survive great sorrow but also to capture the depths of his emotion in song. It is this strength, this technical and visceral genius, that has made him one of our generation’s greatest composers.
In Seeing Through, Gordon writes with humor, insight, and incredible candor about his life and work: a tumultuous youth on Long Island, his artistic collaborations and obsessions, the creation of his compositions (including The Grapes of Wrath, 27, Orpheus and Euridice, Intimate…
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