Overview

Beginning with Lenny's childhood in Boston and ending with his triumphant conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic when he was just twenty-five, Music Was IT draws readers into the energetic, passionate, challenging, music-filled life of young Leonard Bernstein. Archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress, illustrate this fascinating biography, which also includes a foreword by Bernstein's daughter Jamie. Extensive back matter includes biographies of important people in Bernstein's life, as well as a discography of his music.

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Author:   Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher:   Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
Imprint:   Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.329kg
ISBN:  

9781580893459

ISBN 10:   1580893457
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   10 February 2015
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: sustainability as a political concept in the Arctic Ulrik Pram Gad, Marc Jacobsen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg 2. The sustainability of what? Stocks, communities, the public purse? Rikke Becker-Jacobsen 3. Sustainability understandings of Arctic shipping Kathrin Keil 4. Digging sustainability: scaling and sectoring of sovereignty in Greenland and Nunavut mining discourses Marc Jacobsen 5. Without seals, there are no Greenlanders : colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting Naja Dyrendom Graugaard 6. Scaling sustainability in the Arctic Frank Sejersen 7. Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic Elana Wilson Rowe 8. The right to sustainable development and Greenland's lack of a climate policy Lill Rastad Bjorst 9. Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: sustaining the sea or sustaining the state? Philip Steinberg and Berit Kristoffersen 10. Saving the Arctic: Green Peace or oil riot? Hannes Gerhardt, Berit Kristoffersen and Kirsti Stuvoy 11. Sustaining the Arctic nation state: The Case of Norway, Iceland, and Canada Ingrid Medby 12. 'How we use our nature': sustainability and indigeneity in Greenlandic discourse Kirsten Thisted 13. Sustaining Denmark, sustaining Greenland Johanne Bruun 14. A new path in the last frontier state? Transforming energy geogragrahies of agency, sovereignty, and sustainability in Alaska Victoria Herrmann 15. Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall 16. Conclusion: sustainability reconfiguring identity, space, and time Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsbjerg

Reviews

.. .highly readable and inspiring... - Booklist, starred review An impeccably researched and told biography of Leonard Bernstein's musical apprenticeship, from toddlerhood to his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Rubin spins [Leonard Bernstein's] biography into a tale that reads as smoothly and compellingly as a novel. --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books * A Junior Library Guild Selection * Bulletin Blue Ribbon * Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Middle Grade) * National Jewish Book Award finalist * NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People * Sydney Taylor Book Award * YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalist

.. .highly readable and inspiring... - Booklist, starred review An impeccably researched and told biography of Leonard Bernstein's musical apprenticeship, from toddlerhood to his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Rubin spins [Leonard Bernstein's] biography into a tale that reads as smoothly and compellingly as a novel. --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books * A Junior Library Guild Selection * Bulletin Blue Ribbon * Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Middle Grade) * National Jewish Book Award finalist * NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People * Sydney Taylor Book Award * YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalist

. ..highly readable and inspiring... - Booklist, starred review An impeccably researched and told biography of Leonard Bernstein's musical apprenticeship, from toddlerhood to his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Rubin spins [Leonard Bernstein's] biography into a tale that reads as smoothly and compellingly as a novel. --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books * A Junior Library Guild Selection* Bulletin Blue Ribbon* Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Middle Grade)* National Jewish Book Award finalist* NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People* Sydney Taylor Book Award* YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalist

Author Information

Susan Goldman Rubin is the author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Andy Warhol- Pop Art Painter (Abrams) and The Cat with the Yellow Star- Coming of Age in Terezin (Holiday House), both ALA Notable Books. Susan lives in Malibu, California.

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