Most of the first half is a musical autobiography that uses a park bench set, nonspeaking actors and slides of New York City.

Playing first violin, the position that carries much of the narrative impetus in this moody, occasionally tormented piece of musical autobiography, was Lily Francis, whose graceful solo lines conveyed a poignant fragility.

In 2003, Ferris released a musical autobiography, adequately called Audiobiographie and his last regular album Ferris MC.

Modestly yet steadfastly, it conveys the air of a musical autobiography as well as a testament to an era that had ended-and some cherished fragments of which Strata-East itself would shore up.

Her show is an intimate musical autobiography whose songs, sandwiched between anecdotes, reprise and parallel her career during the so-called golden age of the Broadway musical.

While Musicradar.com hailed: "The album's 12 cuts are heartfelt and direct, a catchy and soulful musical autobiography that steers clear of mawkish self-indulgence.

Overture and beginners: a musical autobiography, Methuen & Co.

Thus, in this interpretation, Les préludes can be taken as part of a sketched musical autobiography.

The album is an unsparing musical autobiography, a chronicle of Mr. Crowell's unruly coming of age in a troubled working-class Texas family.