pianists

"When a young boy begins to play on his family's piano, reveling in the fun of plunking the keys, his father signs him up for lessons so that he can learn to play properly. With his father's encouragement, Raj learns notes, then scales, then songs, and finally classical pieces that his father can recognize and be proud of. But the more Raj practices and the more skilled he becomes, the less he enjoys playing, until he grows up and stops playing altogether. But when his father becomes ill and asks Raj to play for him, will Raj remember how to play from the heart?"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Aria is a piano prodigy whose abusive father forbids her from going near a piano and whose only friend Thomas goes missing just as she braves everything to audition for Juilliard.

After his kitten walks across a piano keyboard, a composer writes down the notes exactly as he heard them and enters the tune into a competition.

"In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to readjust to their fashionable apartment in the City in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere--inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots--who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother"--Back cover.

A young girl, sent to Zhangjake Camp 46-19 on China's border with Inner Mongolia during Chairman Mao's cultural revolution, manages to sneak off to the home of Mother Han where she practices the piano in secret until being discovered by the guards.

George Wein reflects on his life and career, discussing his relationships with some of jazz's greatest figures, his impact on the genre, and his efforts to promote jazz around the world.

Chronicles the life of pianist Rudolf Serkin, discussing his role in the shaping of American musical values, his transformations over the course of his career, his family life and personal relationships, and other related topics. Includes a CD of previously unreleased performances.

When Gilda travels to a piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she investigates why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers, while enjoying a romance with a British boy.

Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor (as of 2007), a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place"--Provided by publisher.