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In 1939 at Marion Anderson's great protest concert in Washington, a German-Jewish emigre physicist and a young black contralto are brought together by concern over a lost child. They eventually marry and have three children, bringing them up in a hot-house atmosphere of music and maths, hoping to raise them to have no awareness of race as an issue in their lives. All three are musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long. Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, but the world of opera can only ...

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The Time of Our Singing 2004, Picador USA, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312422189

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The Time of Our Singing 2003, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780374277826

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Select 		Time Of Our Singing 2003, William Heinemann Ltd, London

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The Time of Our Singing 2003, William Heinemann Ltd, London

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The Time of Our Singing

2004, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780312422189

The Time of Our Singing

2004, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780099453833

The Time of Our Singing

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780374277826

Time Of Our Singing

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780434010608

The Time of Our Singing

2003, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780434010622

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carroll l

Jan 18, 2016

History made Relevant

Richard Powers bites off a big piece of American civil rights history. Through the eyes of two biracial musically gifted boys, we see how race matters. Powers gives us an intimate family setting to explore parenting, education, societal convention, physics, music and love. Well done!

Kiamiko

Sep 1, 2008

Power Thriumphs with Time

A complete stranger recommend that i read this book and forever I will be in debt to him.
How to describe a book of such richness. First anyone with a passion for race, time, identity or even Einstein's Theory of Relativity, should pick up this book. Mr Powers has the gift of composing words that make a lasting sounds in our minds. The song, the melody, or the story, if you like, plays something like this - A German physicist meets a black singer at the Marian Anderson concert in Washington DC in 1941, they fall in love, marry and have children. Caught in a time when society is too helpless and inept to accept their relationship or their children the couple decides to create their own customs based on their love of music. What follows is a continuous, unified, and evocative composition of words, with all the melody, harmony, rhythm, one needs. This is a story not to be missed!

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