No Intermissions: The Life Of Agnes De Mille

Easton, Carol

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo Press

Straight Ahead: The Story Of Stan Kenton

Arts & Photography

Music

Pioneering a distinctly American style that combined modern dance and ballet with a traditional folk idiom, Agnes de Mille popularized what had been an elitist art and irrevocably changed the American musical theater. During a life that spanned most of the twentieth century, de Mille worked and played with a fabulous cast of characters, from her uncle (the legendary Cecil B. de Mille) to Charlie Chaplin, Martha Graham, Cole Porter, Noël Coward, Rebecca West, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Drawing on unpublished papers and extensive interviews with friends, colleagues, relatives, and de Mille herself, Carol Easton takes us behind the scenes of de Mille's extraordinary life: struggling to establish a reputation, surviving a series of disastrous love affairs, meeting the conflicting demands of ambition and motherhood, and dealing with a devastating illness. She unforgettably brings to life the combination of intelligence, artistry, and humor that was Agnes de Mille.

Da Capo

Carol Easton, who knew Jacqueline du Pré well, draws on this friendship to create a moving and insightful portrait of a singularly complex person. Jacqueline du Pré (the subject of the recent film Hilary and Jackie) was the music world's "golden girl," with what appeared to many to be a fairytale career and storybook marriage to Daniel Barenboim. But away from her cello, du Pré was achingly human. As a child, she was isolated by her phenomenal talent. As an adult, she was confined to the rarefied, insular concert world. And during the last fifteen years of her life, she lived in the inexorably shrinking world of the invalid, as multiple sclerosis took its toll. The Baltimore Sun said, Carol Easton tells this extraordinary story "with feeling befitting du Pré's own."

Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Presents an in-depth portrait of a woman choreographer who revolutionized the world of dance, bringing a distinctively American flavor to ballet, Hollywood, and Broadway.

No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes De Mille

Little,Brown & Co

Chronicles the celebrated musician's life fron her debut at age sixteen, through international superstardom at twenty, marriage to Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, affliction with multiple sclerosis, and forced reirement, to her death at forty-two

Jacqueline Du Pre

Simon&Schuster

Jacqueline Du Pre: A Life

Summit Books

The Search for Sam Goldwyn: A Biography

The Search for Sam Goldwyn: a Biography

Morrow

A revisionist life of Hollywood's most famous and still controversial producer, seeking out the man behind the legend and noting his contributions to and influence on the motion picture industry

William Morrow & Co.

Los Angeles (Great Cities of the World Series)

Science & Math

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