{"product_id":"9780374605728-seeing-through-a-chronicle-of-sex-drugs-and-opera","title":"Gordon Ricky Ian - Seeing Through A Chronicle Of Sex Drugs And Opera - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of \"a life that comes out of chaos.\" At eight years old Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher's bookshelf and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal sadness and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades its polestar remained constant. Music has been the guiding force of Gordon's life; through it he has been able not only to survive great sorrow but also to capture the depths of his emotion in song. It is this strength this technical and visceral genius that has made him one of our generation's greatest composers. In Seeing Through Gordon writes with humor insight and incredible candor about his life and work: a tumultuous youth on Long Island his artistic collaborations and obsessions the creation of his compositions (including The Grapes of Wrath 27, Orpheus and Euridice Intimate Apparel Ellen West and more) his addictions and the abuses he endured and the loss of his partner to AIDS and the devastation of the HIV\/ AIDS epidemic. As Gordon writes of that period: We were thousands of us Lazarus. We had to rise from the ashes. We didn t have to rebuild our lives we had to build new ones. Gordon has succeeded in building a remarkable life as well as a body of work that bears witness to all he survived in the process one that will endure as a pivotal chapter in America's songbook.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Seeing Through A Chronicle Of Sex Drugs And Opera\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Gordon Ricky Ian\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780374605728\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 480 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 7\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Autobiography: Arts \u0026amp; Entertainment","brand":"Gordon Ricky Ian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49643105648945,"sku":"IN-G-9780374605728","price":24.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780374605728.jpg?v=1753236653","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780374605728-seeing-through-a-chronicle-of-sex-drugs-and-opera","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}