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Author : Chicago Grand Opera Festival
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Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book First Chicago Grand Opera Festival written by Chicago Grand Opera Festival and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Granville L. Howe
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Total Pages : 728 pages
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Download or read book A Hundred Years of Music in America written by Granville L. Howe and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis H Cremin
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332523
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Grant Park written by Dennis H Cremin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 4, 2008, when president-elect Barack Obama celebrated his victory with more than one hundred thousand supporters in Chicago, everyone knew where to meet. Long considered the showplace and cultural center of Chicago, Grant Park has been the site of tragedy and tension, as well as success and joy. In addition to serving as the staging grounds for Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession through the city, the park has been the setting for civil rights protests and the 1968 Democratic National Convention demonstrations. The faithful attended the open-air mass of Pope John Paul II in Grant Park, and fans gathered there to cheer for the Chicago Bulls after their championship wins. The long park overlooking the beautiful waters of Lake Michigan has played an active part in Chicago and U. S. history. In 1836, only three years after Chicago was founded, Chicagoans set aside the first narrow shoreline as public ground and declared it “forever open, clear, and free. . . .” Chicago historian and author Dennis H. Cremin reveals that despite such intent, the transformation of Grant Park to the spectacular park it is more than 175 years later was a gradual process, at first fraught with a lack of funding and organization, and later challenged by erosion, the railroads, automobiles, and a continued battle between original intent and conceptions of progress. Throughout the book, Cremin shows that while Grant Park’s landscape and uses have changed throughout its rocky history, the public ground continues to serve “as a display case for the city and a calling card to visitors.” Amply illustrated with maps and images from throughout Chicago’s history, Grant Park shows readers how Chicago’s “front yard” developed into one of the finest urban parks in the country today. 2014 Illinois State Historical Society Book of the Year
Author : David McKay Powell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807177806
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Cather and Opera written by David McKay Powell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-seven operas. References to opera appear in all but three of her twelve novels and in roughly half of her short stories. Despite a dearth of musical education, Cather produced astute writing about the genre beginning in her earliest criticism and continuing throughout her career. She counted opera stars among her close friends, and according to Edith Lewis, her companion throughout adulthood, the two women frequently visited the theater, even in the early days, when purchasing tickets to attend performances proved a financial sacrifice. Melding cultural history with thoughtful readings of her works and discussions of opera’s complex place in turn-of-the-century America, David McKay Powell’s Cather and Opera offers the first book-length study of what drew the writer so powerfully and repeatedly to the art form. With close attention to Cather’s fiction and criticism, Powell posits that at the heart of both her work and the operatic corpus dwells an innate tension between high artistic ideals and popular acceptance, often figured as a clash between compositional integrity and raw, personal emotion. Considering her connection to opera in both historical and intertextual terms, Cather and Opera investigates what operatic references mean in Cather’s writing, along with what the opera represented to her throughout her life.
Author : Emily Thompson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262701068
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Soundscape of Modernity written by Emily Thompson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era. Reverberation equations, sound meters, microphones, and acoustical tiles were deployed in places as varied as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's office skyscrapers, and the soundstages of Hollywood. The control provided by these technologies, however, was applied in ways that denied the particularity of place, and the diverse spaces of modern America began to sound alike as a universal new sound predominated. Although this sound—clear, direct, efficient, and nonreverberant—had little to say about the physical spaces in which it was produced, it speaks volumes about the culture that created it. By listening to it, Thompson constructs a compelling new account of the experience of modernity in America.
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Chicago written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Morrison
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321616
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Louis Sullivan written by Hugh Morrison and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first definitive biography of the now-famous architect, Hugh Morrison's Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture is still the best introduction to his work. This reissue provides Morrison's original text and illustrations in a larger, more modern format. It also offers an assessment of Morrison's ground-breaking research, in Timothy J. Samuelson's Introduction, and, most important, an authoritative revision of the chronological List of Buildings, including corrections of the data in light of six decades of research. Working from Morrison's original notes, Samuelson has restored a number of photographic images intended for the original edition and has replaced some photographs with alternate images that more accurately represent the buildings. He has also added a selected bibliography of important works about Sullivan"--Page 4 of cover
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Total Pages : 2716 pages
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Download or read book Who's who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Music and Musicians in Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Pridmore
Publisher : Pomegranate
ISBN 13 : 9780764924965
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Auditorium Building written by Jay Pridmore and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by Ferdinand Peck and produced by architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler--soon to be leaders of the Chicago School--in 1889, the Auditorium Building was a wondrous complex, housing a hotel, offices, stores, and a theater. Adler's engineering skills overcame the problem of a foundation that had to support an unevenly distributed weight; Sullivan designed the stunning theater, which was spanned by four elliptical arches studded with 3,500 incandescent electric lights and decorated with gold leaf. Adler created a hydraulic stage--with twenty-six lifts--and one of the first air-conditioning systems in a public building. Among the many design features in the interior of the Auditorium were murals, onyx, marble, open loggias, stained glass, filigreed vents, wainscoting, and bronze-plated posts. Scholars considered the Auditorium Building the most important single structure in Chicago. The Auditorium thrived until its closing in 1940. In 1946 Roosevelt University purchased the building, and the Auditorium Theatre Council restored the theater to its former glory. Today, the Auditorium Building is thriving as a showcase for major theatrical events, Roosevelt University concerts, and other events.
Author : Mark Clague
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chicago Counterpoint written by Mark Clague and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago Recreation Commission
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Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Chicago Recreation Survey, 1937 written by Chicago Recreation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Musical Leader written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Coast Musical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Lines Hubbard
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Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American History and Encyclopedia of Music written by William Lines Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
