Music
Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War
Hardback
A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of classical music with American foreign relations.
Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
Paperback
The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the world’s most celebrated musical acts.
Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music
Hardback
The life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings and letters.
Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary
Hardback
Beethoven’s political ideals, inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon, radiate through his ground-breaking compositions.
Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music
Hardback
The captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.