pianists

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pianists

Love you to bits and pieces

life with David Helfgott
1997
Biography of Australian pianist David Helfgott, the subject of the movie "Shine," telling of his childhood promise, his mental breakdown, and his struggles to achieve his dream of performing again.

Sing to the stars

1994
When Ephram becomes friends with a blind man in his neighborhood and finds out that Mr. Washington was a famous pianist who hasn't touched a piano for a long time, he resolves to get the man back on stage.

The piano man

1998
A young African-American girl recalls the life story of her grandfather who performed in vaudeville and played piano forthe silent movies.

Fingers

1983
Eighteen-year-old Sam falls in with his mother's bizarre scheme to revitalize his younger brother's flagging career as a piano prodigy, and agrees to compose "new works" by a long dead composer and present them to his brother as the dictations of a ghost.

Fingers

1985
Eighteen-year-old Sam falls in with his mother's bizarre scheme to revitalize his younger brother's flagging career as a piano prodigy, and agrees to compose "new works" by a long dead composer and present them to his brother as the dictations of a ghost.

The great pianists

1987
Accounts of the personalities and methods of great pianists from Mozart to the modern-day masters.

Where do you stay?

2011
Eleven-year-old Jerome Mason goes to live with his aunt and cousins following the death of his mom, and although Aunt Geneva tries to make him feel welcome, Jerome misses his mother and his piano which has been sold to cover expenses, and the only person who seems to understand his feelings is Mr. Willie, a man who does odd jobs to support himself while living in the carriage house of an empty, dilapidated mansion.

Her piano sang

a story about Clara Schumann
1997
Tells the story of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her husband.

Prom & prejudice

2012
For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

Wunderkind

a novel
2011

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