San Antonio College Library

This book describes the passionate life of Franz Liszt, the Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, and teacher.

Returning to his Polish-American hometown, young Vietnam soldier Jimmy Koprowski feels stifled by the community's unpromising routines until his sister starts an all-girl polka band and sets in motion a series of events that helps him start to heal.

"Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs focuses on the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, who present complex engagements with some of the musical genres most privileged by Victorian society: folk songs, religious hymns, pastoral operas, and concert music." "Professor Clapp-Itnyre recovers the pervasive ambiguities of the Victorian musical period, ambiguities typically overlooked by both literary scholars and musicologists. To the...