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Without a comprehensive knowledge of the political and geographical upheavals which attended the prolonged death-throes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it can be a baffling task to track down the birth-place of one of Hungary's greatest sons. One might assume, rightly, that Béla Bartok was born in...

CHAPTER ONE JUST ANOTHER BEGINNING. . . "I feel Pm a bit of an upstart. I live in North London, but it's a pretence. Pm really from Wallsend On Tyne and was brought up in a back to back place near the shipyard. I feel as if I got here by the most subtle trickery imaginable." late January...

Introduction:Why We Wrote This BookIn The Way That We DidAs everyone who reads many books may know, the introduction is the place where the author is allowed to dump all of his schmaltzy philosophy on the unsuspecting heads of his readers. It's where writers convince you of how pure their motives...

madonna h e r words In 1983, the pop world sat up and took notice of a new star. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in Detroit 25 years earlier, she preferred to be Icnown only by her first name - a move that said much for her self-confidence. There was then and still is only one Madonna. But there...

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITIONThe response to the initial edition of Solo Guitar Playing has been most gratifying, in terms both of kindly comment by teachers and of an increasing pattern of private and school adoption since its first appearance in 1968. However with wider use comes, inevitably,...