Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A riotous, rambling and incomplete history of classical music, complete with leg measurements
Tim Lihoreau Books
Tim Lihoreau is a prominent media personality, best known as the voice of the biggest breakfast show on commercial radio. His award-winning work in radio writing and production across the Atlantic highlights his skill in crafting engaging and compelling content. With a background in music and a prior career as a concert pianist, he brings a unique perspective to his work, often drawing on a deep understanding of the arts and their expression. Lihoreau remains actively involved in his community's musical life, reflecting a lifelong passion for music and sharing it with others.
Drawing from the hugely popular weekly Daily Telegraph column, the ultimate book of modern phobias! Did you leave work yesterday and have a stab of fear that you€™d forgotten to press save before switching off your computer? Did you then go to the pub, get very drunk, then wake this morning unable to remember what awful things you might have said or done? You€™re not paranoid (most of the time) but suffering from modern phobias. Such as antefamaphobia€”the fear that people were talking about you, but stopped just before you entered the room. Or agmenophobia€”the fear that the line you join will end up being slower than the other one. The Book of Phobias will confirm every sneaking suspicion you have of a suffering from a weird and wonderful phobia, and highlight some you never knew you had!
Dieses Buch behandelt moderne Phobien und deren Symptome, die vielen bekannt vorkommen dürften, wie die Angst, den Herd angelassen zu haben oder sich in Cafés über Getränke zu entscheiden. Es bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über verschiedene Neurosen von A-Z, darunter auch ungewöhnliche Ängste wie Vilimusophobie und Supsuescaphobie.
Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
- 316 pages
- 12 hours of reading
'Hello, I'm Stephen the Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on The Incomplete and Utter History of Classic Music... putting some unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.' In his Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music, Stephen Fry presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it. Along this musical journey he casually throws in references to pretty much whatever takes his fancy, from the Mongol invasion of Russia and Mr Khan (Genghis to his Friends), the founding of the MCC, the Black Death (which once again became the new black in England) to the heady revolutionary atmosphere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the deep doo-doo that Louis XVI got into (or 'du-du' as the French would say). It's all here - Ambrose and early-English plainsong, Bach, Mozart (beloved of mobile phones everywhere), Beethoven, Debussy, Wagner (the old romantic), right up to the present day. Entertaining and brilliantly written, this is a pretty reckless romp of a history through classical music and much much more.