Book Beats
Summer Reads for Adults 2011
We recommend the following shortlist for your summer reading and listening enjoyment.
Books!
DownBeat, the Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology
Edited by Frank Alker
Shakespeare and the American Musical
By Irene G. Dash
The Cellist of Sarajevo
By Steven Galloway
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
By Lloyd Jones
The Piano Teacher
By Janice Lee
Handel’s Bestiary: In Search of Animals in Handel’s Operas
By Donna Leon
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music
By Steve Lopez
American Music
By Jane Mendelsohn
Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965
By Corinne J. Naden
Hip-Hop Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip-Hop Feminist Movement
By Reiland Rebaka
Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues and Gospel
By Howard Reich
Life
By Keith Richards
To Everything There Is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
By Allan Winkler
Beats!
Chopin: Piano Concertos
Performed by Lang Lang
Gypsy: 50th Anniversary Edition
Performed by Ethel Merman and cast
Tchaikovsky: Symphony 5/Francesca da Rimini
Performed by Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Authorized Bootleg: Live At the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco 1966
By Muddy Waters
Wilco (The Album)
By Wilco



