Summary: "More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegaic summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group The Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (led by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LASAngelou, Maya
Summary: In the third volume of her autobiography, the author recounts her passage into adulthood and the white world, and her initial experiences of marriage, motherhood, and show business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pink Floyd in concert in 1972, shot in and around an ancient amphitheatre among the ruins of Pompeii.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Ho, Joanna
Summary: ". . . tell[s] an inspiring story of Yo-Yo Ma, who challenges conventions, expectations, and beliefs in order to build bridges to unite communities, people, and cultures"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HODenver, John.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC COUSummary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: A feature film version of America's hit comedy concert tour with renowned comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLUSummary: Period-drama depiction of the private, first performance of Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony at the Lobkowitz Palace in 1805, the momentous musical event that prompted composer Joseph Haydn to remark "Everything is different from today."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ERODenver, John.
Summary: "John Denver is one of the most successful and best loved recording artists of the 20th century. His easy going manner, fine voice, superb songwriting and dedication to environmental issues all combined to build a huge global fanbase that has continued to grow since his untimely death in a plane crash in 1997"--Eagle-Rock.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AROPreservation Hall Jazz Band
Contents: Shake it and break it (feat. Andrew Bird) (3:11) -- Between the devil & the deep blue sea (feat. Paolo Nutini) (2:42) -- Tootie Ma was a big fine thing (feat. Tom Waits) (4:18) -- Louisiana fairytale (feat. Yim Yames) (3:09) -- After you've gone (feat. Del McCoury) (3:22) -- Freight train (feat. Ani DiFranco) (3:18) -- Blue skies (feat. Pete Seeger, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger) (2:39) -- Nobody knows...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Preservation Hall Recordings 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PRERadiohead (Musical group)
Summary: Collection of the British band's videos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RADSummary: "We asked musiciains to cut a 78 record of an old song using one microphone, one blank lacquer disc and one 1930s PRESTO disc recorder... anywhere they chose... in one take.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVSummary: Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band₂s intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEACopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV BEAContents: Disc 1: Trouble/Guitar man (3:26) -- My baby left me (2:12) -- Baby, what you want me to do (3:03) -- Old Shep (4:09) -- That's when your heartaches begin (2:48) -- That's all right (1:55) -- Blue moon of Kentucky (2:02) -- Fool, fool, fool (1:57) -- Tweedlee dee (2:44) -- Baby, let's play house (2:14) -- Good rockin' tonight (2:18) -- Trying to get to you (2:30) -- Blue moon (2:42) -- When it...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA / Legacy 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PREBlackaby, Susan
Summary: "Meet Leo--a creative, shy, young boy in search of a special talent that he can share with the world. Curious and persistent, Leo tries all kinds of activities. Then, with the unknowing help of his sister, he discovers music. Leo may seem quiet, but the piano gives him a big voice, helps his confidence soar, and propels him to embrace the treasure inside him and share it with the world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyala Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLAGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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Summary: "From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn't know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BALBagley, Jessixa
Summary: Maurice loved to share his music with everyone, and the crowds loved him, but times changed, his audience drifted away, and without anyone to share with Maurice became sad and lonely--until one day, his heart remembered and he found a new audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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Summary: "It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OCOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OCODoudna, Kelly
Summary: This title explores real-life people whose endurance is so amazing, it seems like a superpower! Readers will learn what endurance is and the factors that affect endurance and meet people whose endurance is superhuman! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.9 DOUThakur, Sophia
Summary: "In her publishing debut, internationally acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur takes you on an intimate journey through love, loss, sacrifice, and self-discovery. In four parts -- titled Grow, Wait, Break, and Grow Again -- she shares her raw self and gives voice to experiences that connect people, inspiring readers to explore the tendencies of the heart." -- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 THAHicks, Josh
Summary: "Step into the ring at Glorious Wrestling Alliance, the universe's least-professional wrestling company. Collected in colossal full color for the first time, this hilarious love letter to pro wrestling covers identity, anxiety, and leg drops"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HICSummary: Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R & B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018