Music

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  Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run

  Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer

  Hardback

  Told in revelatory first person, this immersive account of Paul McCartney and Wings is the engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation.

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  From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song

  Steven Blier, Adam Gopnik

  Hardback

  A moving and tartly funny musical memoir both “comic and cosmic” (Adam Gopnik) by an acclaimed pianist, spellbinding storyteller and champion of song

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  The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI

  David Hajdu

  Hardback

  An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of art’s relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI

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  Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words

  Michael Owen

  Hardback

  The man behind some of the most memorable lyrics in the great American songbook emerges from his brother’s shadow

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  Schoenberg: Why He Matters

  Harvey Sachs

  Paperback

  An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers