Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.34 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316300632 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Brave, bravura story" according to Leah Callahan. What a story! Thoroughly researched and sensitively told. Virginians should read this for insight into how our Commonwealth cares for vulnerable kids. Teachers should read this for reminders of how they change lives. Young musicians should read this to learn how hard work can turn talent into a career. Bergner's prose is a little purple in the first chapters. Ryan Speedo Green bravely lays out all the hard facts of his life, and in doing so, will he. jeanne-marie a. miller said An Unusual Path to Opera. This biography, written by Daniel Bergner, focuses on the life of Ryan Speedo Green, a young African American bass-baritone who is winning wide recognition in the opera world. His is a complex, unusual life for an opera singer. Coming from a tumultuous trailer park home in southeastern Virginia, he, ostensibly, had no early musical talent. The fascinating part of Ryan's life was his gradual change from an unruly youth to one with a purpose. His intr. Profound and Humbling Holly This is not just a story about opera. Nor is it just about grit and determination. It is about the extraordinary determination of Ryan Speedo Green to claw himself to a better life by facing his grim reality head on, staring straight ahead. This is an example of how complete strangers can and should insert themselves where they are needed. What a difference it can make. Imagine what the world could be like if more of us behaved like this.Of course,
This is a book of great compassion that traces the contours of a single remarkable life. It has so many of the qualities that critics and readers admire: a sympathetic hero whose life sketches an arc from tragedy to triumph; a treasured glimpse behind the high-culture curtain."Washington Post opinion section"A first-rate psychological thriller. This book is Daniel Bergner's masterpiece and puts him at the top of American literary journalism."George Packer, National Book Award-winning author of The Assassins' Gate and The Unwinding
In addition to the New York Times Magazine, Daniel's writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper's, Mother Jones, Talk, and the New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of a novel, Moments of Favor, and four books of nonfiction: What Do Women Want?, The Other
Daniel Bergner takes readers on Ryan's path toward redemption, introducing us to a cast of memorable characters--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. A New York Times bestsellerA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookA Publishers Weekly Book of the YearAs seen on CBS This Morning, NPR's Fresh Air, and PeopleMagazineA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Library Journal Nonfiction Pick of SeptemberThe New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom. He was placed in solitary confinement. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's M