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Author: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome & John McBrewster

Ellie Goulding (born Elena Jane Goulding on 30 December 1986) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist currently signed to Polydor Records.

Author: Ellie Vayo

Boudoir photography can add a prosperous new addition to a studio photographer's services, but is often overlooked through a lack of knowledge on how to market this work. Ellie Vayo shows readers how they can implement t ...

Author: Simon Bent

What's the point of ever going out when you can get pizza delivered, and all the sex you want on the phone? And who needs a bed to sleep in when there's a perfectly good wardrobe to stand the night in? First there was Wa ...

Author: Ingvar Ambjornsen & Simon Bent

Mummy's boy Elling and his roommate, the uncouth, reluctant virgin Kjell Bjarne, are the Odd Couple of Oslo: a pair of confused souls taking their first steps in the outside world after years of isolated, institutional l ...

Author: John Howland

Today classical music and jazz travel in two distinctly separate streams, rarely intersecting. During the early decades of the twentieth century, however, symphonic jazz - whose most famous composition was "Rhapsody in B ...

Author: W.E. Timner

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) is recognized as one of the great composers and orchestra leaders of the twentieth century and is credited for raising jazz to its highest plateau. He remained musically active ...

Author: Elliot Ross & Manfred Zollner

'The haunting animal portraits of the American Elliot Ross question our relation to other creatures and the ways we perceive the animal world' - Manfred Zollner in "fotoMAGAZIN". A portrait of his late cat, put up on a w ...

Author: Quiara Alegria Hudes

"Without ever invoking politics, "Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue "manages to be a deeply poetic, touching, and often funny indictment of the war in Iraq."?"The New York Times"

Melding a poetic dreamscape with a stream-of ...

Author: James Wierzbicki

This compact study provides a fresh perspective on one of the most significant American composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A leading voice of the American classical music tradition, Elliott Carter was ...

Author: William T. Doering

Internationally recognized American composer Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. has composed over three dozen substantial pieces, ranging from stage and choral works to ballets, symphonies, and chamber music. Even at age 85, he ...

Author: John F. Link

This is a comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter (b. 1908), widely acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. It contains a chronology, complete list of works ...

Author: Norton Fausto Garfield

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Ameri ...

Author: Marguerite Boland & John Link

Over the course of an astonishingly long career, Elliott Carter has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries - from his early neo-classic music of the interwar period, to his ...

Author: Guy Capuzzo

In 1997, the eminent American composer Elliott Carter teamed with British music critic/librettist Paul Griffiths to create the one-act opera What Next? Hailed by the New York Times as "theatrically dynamic" and "poignant ...

Author: Elliott Erwitt

"Magnum" reporter Elliott Erwitt (born 1928) is a witty photographer with an eye that is not always optimistic, but is always stylish. Sudden coincidences and chance encounters with objects and situations allow him to ca ...

Author: Elliott Erwitt

For almost six decades, Elliott Erwitt has had a keen eye for the often-overlooked world of children. What has resulted is a wry, endearing and often humorous vision that captures the joys and heartaches of childhood fro ...

Author: Elliott Erwitt

What happens next? This irksome little question is key to story-telling. Whether ancient bards or trendy filmmakers, narrators have to keep us guessing. Yet, we often forget that life itself is a chain of unpredictable i ...

Author: Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt (b. 26 July 1928 Paris, France) is an advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings- a master of Henri Cartier ...

Author: Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt's glimpses of New York City are sometimes gritty, sometimes elegant, yet always true to life. His monochromatic tribute to the Big Apple contains all the shadings of this vital metropolis. Capturing the tr ...

Author: Elliott Erwitt

Yes, we'll always have Paris and who better to capture all its moods than the inimitable Elliott Erwitt? With a keen eye for the real city, Erwitt sees beyond the tourist cliches. Whether the mightiest of monuments or th ...