Battle, Kathleen.
Contents: Honey and rue / Andre Previn ; text by Toni Morrison (26:00) -- Knoxville, summer of 1915 / Samuel Barber ; text by James Agee (14:54) -- Porgy and Bess. I loves you, Porgy (2:17) ; Summertime (2:40) / George Gershwin ; lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BATSchumann, Robert
Contents: Liederkreis, op. 39 / nach Gedichten von Joseph Eichendorff (25:36) -- Aus den hebräischen Gesängen, op. 25 Nr. 15 (3:59) -- Er ist's, op. 79 Nr. 23 (24) (1:15) -- Der Nussbaum, op. 25 Nr. 3 (3:23) -- Der Soldat, op. 40 Nr. 3 (2:36) -- Die Lotosblume, op. 25 Nr. 7 (1:46) -- Mignon, op. 79 Nr. 28 (op. 98a Nr. 1) (3:48) -- Frauenliebe und -leben, op. 42 / Liederzyklus nach Gedichten von Adelbert...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SCHRespighi, Ottorino
Contents: Laud to the Nativity : for soloists, chorus and instrumental ensemble / Respighi -- Magnificat for seven-part chorus, organ and orchestra, from Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 / Monteverdi.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RESVerdelle, A. J.
Summary: "The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precarious journey toward creativity that is the writer's life, and tells the compelling story of her relationship with Toni Morrison, painting an illuminating portrait of this towering yet enigmatic cultural icon. With the publication of her debut novel The Good Negress in 1995, A. J. Verdelle became an overnight...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERDELLE, A.J. VERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VERDELLE VERSnider, Sarah Kirkland
Contents: Prelude -- The estate -- The barn -- The guest -- The slaughterhouse -- The girl -- The swan -- The witch -- The river -- The speakers -- The orchard -- The song -- The past.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SNIAnatol, Giselle Liza
Summary: In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANASnider, Sarah Kirkland.
Contents: The stranger with the face of a man I loved -- This is what you're like -- The honeyed fruit -- The lotus eaters -- Nausicaa -- Circe and the hanged man -- I died of waiting -- Home -- Dead friend -- Calypso -- Ad then you shall be lost indeed -- Open hands -- Baby teeth, bones, and bullets -- As he looks out to sea.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Amsterdam Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE SNIRyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAMussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Contents: Songs and dances of death. Lullaby (4;56) ; Serenade (4:27) ; Trepak (4:54) ; The field-marshal (5:29) -- Symphony no. 14. De profundis (García Lorca) (4:47) ; Malagueña (García Lorca) (2:51) ; Lorelei (Apollinaire) (9:06) ; The suicide (Apollinaire) (8:02) ; On watch (Apollinaire) (3:13) ; Madam, look! (Apollinaire) (2:17) ; At the Santé Jail (Apollinaire) (9:17) ; The Zaporozhian Cossacks'...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SHOMorrison, Toni
Summary: America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 MORSummary: Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Morrison, Toni
Summary: "This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard--to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. Its sequence of flashes of revelation--remarkable for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MORRaekwon
Summary: "There are rappers who everyone loves and there are rappers who every rapper loves, and Corey Woods, a.k.a. Raekwon the Chef, is one of the few who is both. His versatile flow, natural storytelling, and evocative imagery have inspired legions of fans and a new generation of rappers. Raekwon is one of the founding members of Wu-Tang Clan, and his voice and cadence are synonymous with the sound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TONBennett, Juda
Summary: "What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 374 BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 734 BENTrudell, John.
Contents: Crazy Horse -- Other close times -- Undercurrent -- Carry the stone -- Ever get the blues -- Lucky motel -- Bone days -- Takes my breath -- Spectator -- Sorry love -- Nothing in her eyes -- Doesn't hurt anymore -- Hanging from the cross.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Asitis Productions 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN TRULangeland, Sinikka
Contents: Row my ocean (7:04) -- Wind and sun (instrumental) (2:53) -- It walks and walks (6:48) -- When the heart is a moon (5:14) -- Hands that held (4:04) -- A child who exists (4:48) -- A window tells (6:38) -- The love (4:48) -- Wind song (3:15) -- A child who exists (var.) (4:33) -- Wind and sun (6:48) -- You hear my heart come (8:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LANWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: How do you tell a story? Before Toni Morrison was a Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize–winning author, she was Chloe Ardelia Wofford, a little girl in Ohio who was both the only Black child in her first-grade classroom and the only student who was able to read. This is the true story of how that young girl learned from her upbringing, surrounded herself with stories, and made a tremendous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MORWeinstein, Arnold L.
Summary: "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes literature professor and critic Weinstein in this book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers who "reinvent the novel by exploding our sense of what we are." He invites us to discover our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories in these masterpieces of modernist...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 WEIBeethoven, Ludwig van
Contents: Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestro (14:13) -- Molto vivace ; Presto ; Molto vivace ; Presto (14:20) -- Adagio molto e cantabile ; Andante moderato ; Tempo I ; Andante moderato ; Adagio (11:08) -- Presto ; Allegro ma non troppo ; Tempo I ; Vivace ; Tempo I ; Adagio cantabile ; Tempo I. Allegro ; Allegro assai ; Tempo I. Allegro ; Allegro assai (5:05) -- Presto ; Recitativo ; Allegro assai...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BEEContents: Lock [sic] Lomond -- The orphan -- Skye boat song -- The lowlands of Holland -- I'll take you home again Kathleen -- Last rose of summer -- Greensleeves -- Ocean of grass -- Annie Laurie -- Lo, how a rose e'er blooming -- The lark in the clear air -- Storm clouds -- Patapan -- Cornish sans day -- The Sally gardens -- She moved through the fair.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CELContents: Aberdeen fayre -- Whispers in the glen -- When all was fair -- Sweet Lucy -- A Flagon of ale -- So long ago -- Intrepid McAllistair -- I leave you now -- Streets of Dunfermline -- Butcher's boy
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Direct Source Special Products 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CELSummary: Timed to coincide with the band's twenty-fifth anniversary, an inside portrait of Bon Jovi follows them on their 2008 Lost Highway tour, explores the history of the band, and discusses the band members' lives both at home and on the road.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Design 2009