Bøger af Rebecca Mitchell

In To You, Brian takes you back through the stories of his childhood. From the inner city of Philadelphia to the rural fields of Florida, his life was shaped by the people he encountered. Spending a few years in the foster care system, he shares his perspective from the inside of a constantly changing world and brings you on a journey of faces, places, and names that brought him to where he is today.Every person has the opportunity to make an impact. Through first-hand experiences, To You brings that impact to life and not only opens up new perspectives, but also demonstrates how one action, no matter how small, can change another person's world forever.

A concise yet comprehensive survey of one of classical music's most popular composers.

A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia's "e;Silver Age,"e; author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how "e;Nietzsche's orphans"e; strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.