Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316300675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brave, bravura story 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 help generations to come. Buy it now. Everyone will be reading it.. 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 introduction to music and his eventual devotion to opera followed an uncommon path, all recounted in excellent prose and insight by his biographer. Standing 6 feet feet 5 inches tall a. 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 story speaks to the magic and power of music. Too often, these programs fall victim to budget cuts. This book shows that they are an essential part of every school curriculum.
In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera, beating out 1,200 other talented singers. He was placed in solitary confinement. And Sing for Your Life sheds unique light on the enduring and complex realities of race in America.. Bergner illuminates all that it takes--technically, creatively--to find and foster the beauty of the human voice. 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 B
We see how a young black man can sing for his life and find triumph in the most unexpected of places."Roxane Gay, author of the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist and An Untamed State"Gripping and inspiringBergner chronicles the auditions and vocal contests as the struggles Green faces as a black man entering a musical world that is mostly white, delivering a moving portrait of a young man who succeeds, along with the help of encouraging teachers."Publishers Weekly, starred review"In Ryan Speedo Green we see a microcosm of American's own struggle to throw off the shackles of our troubled racial legacy His story, expertly told by Daniel Bergner, is proof of the possibility of all of our redemption."Joy-Ann Reid, National Correspondent for MSNBC and author of Fracture"Sing for Your Life is absolutely riveting. Bergner cross-cuts between Green's violent, impoverished childhood
In the Land of Magic Soldiers received an Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting and a Lettre-Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In addition to the New York Times Magazine, Daniel's writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Gr