The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B010MH9YN4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Raised in Denver, Colorado with eleven brothers and sisters, she currently resides with her husband in Washington, DC. She studied music at the Peabody Institute at John Hopkins University and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where she was a Fulbright scholar. . Charity Tillemann-Dick is a soprano and top-selling Billboard classical artist
"In this heartrending, passionate, and surprisingly humorous account of the conjunction between art and death, Charity Tillemann-Dick gives us the performance of a lifetime." (Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Noonday Demon and Far From the Tree )
With new lungs and fierce determination, she eventually fell in love, rebuilt her career, and reclaimed her life. Medical experts advised Charity to abandon her musical dreams, but if her time was running out, she wanted to spend it doing what she loved. The remarkable true story of acclaimed opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick, who received not one but two double lung transplants and went from struggling to draw a single breath to singing at the most prestigious venues in the world.Charity Tillemann-Dick was a vivacious young American soprano studying at the celebrated Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest when she received devastating news: her lungs were failing, her heart was three and a half sizes too big, and she would die within five years. Teetering between life and death, she slowly learned to breathe, walk, talk, eat, and sing again. Over a decade after her diagnosis, she has a chart-topping album, performs around the globe, and is a leading voice for organ donation. Weaving Charity’s extraordinary tale