2 CDs with over 2 hours of music Illuminating essay by Stephen Johnson Illustrated with photographs. Well over half a century after his death, Bela Bart k is held up as one of the twentieth century' great musical moderni.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and...