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Cargando... Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Familypor Daniel Bergner
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Inspiring story of young black man choosing an unlikely career and succeeding against the odds. ( ) This is the remarkable story of Ryan Speedo Green's rise from imprisonment in a juvenile detention center to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Also contained within are meditations on how singing actually happens, what goes through the mind of someone who is completely off track at an early age, and on how intensely driven effort and determination can create unexpected outcomes. One of the strongest sections explores the history of " 'Ol Man River" from the musical "Showboat" - and why Paul Robeson, Ryan Green, and other black men bitterly resent being compelled to sing it. Green and the writer seem to have had a mind-meld in the prose - there's almost nothing hidden from the reader and one is compelled to further research Green's career in hopes of finding even more joy from his victories. Truly inspirational. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air). "One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time."-Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in southeastern Virginia: his family lived in a trailer park and later a bullet-riddled house across the street from drug dealers. His father was absent; his mother was volatile and abusive. At the age of twelve, Ryan was sent to Virginia's juvenile facility of last resort. He was placed in solitary confinement. He was uncontrollable, uncontainable, with little hope for the future. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera, beating out 1,200 other talented singers. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses. Sing for Your Life chronicles Ryan's suspenseful, racially charged and artistically intricate journey from solitary confinement to stardom. Daniel Bergner takes readers on Ryan's path toward redemption, introducing us to a cast of memorable characters â?? including the two teachers from his childhood who redirect his rage into music, and his long-lost father who finally reappears to hear Ryan sing. Bergner illuminates all that it takes â?? technically, creatively â?? to find and foster the beauty of the human voice. And Sing for Your Life sheds unique light on the enduring and complex realities of race in No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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