Carter Books

As a News Director at a top TV market, it is crucial I provide sound advise to my young reporters about their responsibilities and liabilities when pursuing a story. The First Ammendment and the Fith Estate should be requiered reading for all young journalists (and even some older journalists could refresh their knowledge with this book). I look forward to the next edition as we face a whole new world with Cybernews and DTV.

She was an ideal first lady. And she's written the best look at a president's term through the eyes of his wife.

My 2 year-old daughter loves this book! She can read it all on her own. We recently checked it out of the library and don't want to return it. The illustrations are incredibly cute and funny. The book starts the readers off with the alphabet and leads them through numbers, colors and opposites. Splendid book.

I've had a hard time finding these books in good condition. To the publishers out there please reprint the flashing swords anthologies! Hardcover would be preferred!

I've had a hard time finding these books in good condition. To the publishers out there please reprint the flashing swords anthologies! Hardcover would be preferred!

This is the early Carter, we hear about his early days with Mlle.Boulanger,her perceptive clarvoyance for her illuminations of a work,her deep concern for her students,including the selctions of gifts for travel back to the United States,well New York. Stravinsky was the genius of the age, the Twenties, Carter had heard at a soiree, Persephone, with Mr. Stravinsky at the piano. He always brought an impeccable sense of rhythm, of precision, of attack.Carter distinguishes the piano composer Ravel, Igor.

There are great issues discussed here as the future of the orchestra, how difficult it has become to give everyone in the modern orchestra something to play. These interviews traverse only to 1971, Carter was on the threshold of his monumental Third String Quartet. But we obtain quite well thought out reflections of the darkly brooding "Piano Concerto",a work completed during a stay in Berlin with students, Rzewski among them, and the "Concerto for Orchestra". The latter he had fragmented the modern orchestra into 'concertini', small ensembles of fascinating timbres.

Carter here is quite social in his reflections of tradition and the elitist endeavor of writing music. He reflects that we really cannot speak of a national consciousness for serious composers as Carter has so obviously become in the past ten years. That perhaps writing music for the primary venues will be something for the past. And if we warp=speed to the present from 1971 we see the corporate agenda for orchestral commissions as Eisner's vacuous vision of "Mickey Mouse" giving music money to Alan Jay Kernis and Michael Torke for modern creations, creations quite obvious and predictable.Yet without points of interest.

Carter reflects quite profoundly on his working methods, the five and seven tone chordal structures, in the "Piano Concerto", and The powerfully wrought "Concerto for Orchestra", the latter written during the Vietnam Times, of street anti-establishment rebellion.

We learn the impetus of Carter's musical aesthetic as linear, the only aesthetic worth pursuing, and he makes a profoundly convincing arguments against contra the texture bound creations a la Stockhausen, where texture became boring after the first initial moments. Or he reflects deeply on the vacuity of serial thinking that never lets the EAR be the primary focus for music, rather the highly abstracted geometric sense of music not for the EAR but the self-indulgent mind.

Shame this is out-of print, I have an old tattered copy that I cherish deeply.

Equine Theology:
A Review of Flying Changes: Horses as Spiritual Teachers by Carter Heyward (with photography by Beverly Hall). Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 2005.

Based on her experiences at Free Rein Center for Therapeutic Riding and Education in Brevard, North Carolina, Episcopal priest Carter Heyward asserts that people who are receptive and patient can gain spiritual insights from working with horses. In seven chapters, each named for a lesson, this well-known liberation theologian illustrates how equestrians learn to follow their life's passion, to respect and embrace otherness, to overcome fear, to achieve balance, to reflect the beauty within, to practice living in patience, and to enjoy whimsy. The title Flying Changes refers to a horseback-riding maneuver that Heyward sees as symbolic of spiritual transformation; furthermore, she believes that people who work with horses may undergo this kind of change if they allow horses to teach them.
More traditional theologians need not be put off by Heyward's thesis that
". . .God did not, and does not, come to us primarily, much less only, in human form - not simply in Jesus once upon a time and not merely in any of us or our peoples, cultures, and struggles today." For, Heyward goes on to explain, "Indeed my faith is in a God that came in Jesus just as God comes all the time in and through our lives, our prayers, and our efforts to build right relation, which is just and compassionate. Right relation, justice, and compassion are the ways of God." (p. 13) In other words, God is still revealing Godself in and through creation.
During the course of this slim, 128-page volume, the reader gets to know such creatures as Whisper, who was rescued from a man who had been starving her; Big Red, who posed a challenge to any would-be riders; Feather, the filly who was born of Big Red and a Connemara pony; and Patience, who rebelled after being ridden by rowdy children at a summer camp. In addition to the equine characters, several interesting horsewomen are also included, most notably Linda Levy, who eschews the overused title "horse whisperer" despite her many accomplishments.
Just as readers have been able to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance without ever owning or riding a motorcycle, readers will be able to relate to Heyward's premise of learning spiritual lessons through nature without ever having owned a horse. However, once having concluded this book, the reader may be tempted to find a pasture with a horse and take a lesson or two.

Reviewer: Sandy Quinn, Sales Manager, Philadelphia, PA
Personal development with a twist.
Finally, a self-help book that was exciting to read. Presented as a 'rags to riches' fictional novel, The Freedom Formula gives sage advice for living life to it's fullest. This book grabbed me from the beginning and held my interest all the way through. I have started applying the principles of the Freedom Formula and have noticed a marked improvement in the 'joy factor' of each day. Highly recommended.

It is easy to read with lots of examples. Gives planty of ideas if you are interested in corpus study.

From Poppa is an enjoyable full color children's picture book for young readers who can effortlessly handle easy reader books and are ready for a slightly more detailed story. The heartwarming color illustrations by Kasia Charko wonderfully enhance Anne Carter's story of a young girl and her beloved grandfather who teaches her how to create a lifelike wooden duck over the course of a winter. A wistful and gentle tale of family, From Poppa is highly recommended for family, school, and community library picture book collections.