pointers and public hauls

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Weekend Library Haul (The books have links to their entries on Amazon.com, the CDs have links to entries in the All Music Guide and the movies link to their page on the Internet Movie Database)

• CDs
  
  
  
  • Sampradaya/Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma
  
  
  • Traditional Music of India/Ustad Ali Akbar Khan {amazon.com entry}
  
  
  • Unforgettable/Joe Pass
  
  
  • Telarc CD-80059 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.BARBER.GRAINGER.FAURE.SATIE | Leonard Slatkin/Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra {FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS: (VAUGHAN WILLIAMS); Gymnopedie Nos 1 and 3/Satie; Adagio for Strings/Barber; Pavane/Faure; Irish Tune from County Derry(Danny Boy)/Grainger}
  
  


• Books:
  
  
  • The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture by Robert Warshow
  
  
  • Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion by Mickey Hart, Jay Stevens, Fredric Lieberman
  
  
  • Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm by Mickey Hart, Fredric Lieberman, D. A. Sonneborn
  
  
  • The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
  
  
  • Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience by Steven Waksman, Steve Waksman
  
  


• VHS: The Wrong Man and Monty Python: Six and Violence. Volume 6 containing episodes 11 through 13.