Sing for your life a story of race, music, and family
The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan Speedo Green won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a ri...
| Main Author: | Bergner, Daniel (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan Speedo Green won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses. |
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| Item Description: |
"A Lee Boudreaux book." "A portion of this book originally appeared, in different form, in the New York Times Magazine"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: |
311 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780316300674 0316300675 |
| Author Notes: |
While covering the annual Louisiana State Prison at Angola rodeo, he discovered corruption in the form of Warden Burl Cain, who requested a payment of $50,000 and the right of editorial control on Bergner's project. Bergner's eventual book on the affair, God of the Rodeo: The Search for Hope, Faith and a Six-Second Ride in Louisiana's Angola Prison, deals in part with the fact that not all public servants are as helpful or as dedicated as his parents were. (Bowker Author Biography) |