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First Nights

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Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300091052
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book First Nights written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.

First Nights at the Opera

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Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300115260
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book First Nights at the Opera written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned music scholar narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries by taking readers behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas. 88 illustrations.

Charley's First Night

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Author : Amy Hest
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763665916
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Charley's First Night written by Amy Hest and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of our most beloved picture book creators team up to tell a classic story of a child, his new puppy, and a first night home. Features an audio read-along! On Charley’s first night, Henry carries his new puppy in his old baby blanket all the way to his house. He shows Charley every room, saying, "This is home, Charley." He says that a lot so that Charley will know that he is home. Henry’s parents are very clear about who will be walking and feeding Charley (Henry will, and he can’t wait). They are also very clear about where Charley will be sleeping: Charley will be sleeping in the kitchen. But when the crying starts in the middle of the night, Henry knows right away that it’s Charley! And it looks like his parents’ idea about where Charley is going to sleep may have to change. With warmth, humor, and endearing simplicity, Amy Hest tells a tale familiar to everyone who has loved a puppy, while Helen Oxenbury renders each tender gesture and charming detail in a beauty of a book that children will be eager to take home.

A Fatal First Night

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Author : Kathleen Marple Kalb
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496727304
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book A Fatal First Night written by Kathleen Marple Kalb and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s easy to be overlooked in Gilded Age Manhattan, but the Ella Shane Opera Company’s latest premier manages to attract adoring crowds, rave reviews, and a killer who’s a real showstopper! New York City, Fall 1899. Ahead-of-her-time coloratura mezzo Ella Shane has always known opening night to be a mess of missed cues and jittery nerves, especially when unveiling a new opera. Her production of The Princes in the Tower, based on the mysterious disappearance of Edward IV’s two sons during the Wars of the Roses in England, concludes its first performance to thunderous applause. It’s not until players take their bows that the worst kind of disaster strikes . . . Flawless basso Albert Reuter is found lurched over a bloody body in his dressing room, seemingly taking inspiration from his role as the murderous Richard III. With a disturbing homicide case stealing the spotlight, Ella can’t be so certain Albert is the one who belongs behind bars . . . Now, Ella must think on her feet while sorting out a wild series of puzzling mishaps and interlocking mysteries. Yet even when sided with her aristocratic beau, does this scrappy diva have the chops to upstage the true criminal, or will this be the last time she headlines a Broadway marquee?

First Night

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Author : Jill Keppeler
Publisher : West 44 Books
ISBN 13 : 9781538384183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book First Night written by Jill Keppeler and published by West 44 Books. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Matt Lopez is an ordinary kid. He likes hanging out with his friends, playing Minecraft, and teasing his brother and sister. But when Matt buys a secondhand VR headset at a lawn sale and tries it out one night, he gets a huge surprise: he wakes up in the world of Minecraft! It'll take all his skills and smarts to stay alive, because gathering resources, putting together tools, and creating a safe spot to avoid nighttime monsters is far easier on screen than it is in reality"--Back cover.

First Nights

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Author : Niall Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400883377
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book First Nights written by Niall Campbell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetry The Scottish poet Niall Campbell's first book, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, the largest such prize in the United Kingdom, was named the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for both the Fenton Aldeburgh and Forward prizes for best first collection. First Nights—which includes all the poems in Moontide and sixteen new ones—marks the North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetry. First Nights offers vivid descriptions of the natural world, and the joy found in moments of quiet, alongside intimate depictions of new parenthood. Campbell grew up on the remote, sparsely populated islands of South Uist and Eriskay in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and First Nights is filled with images of the islands’ seascapes, myths, wildlife, and long, dark winters. But the poems widen beyond their immediate locations to include thoughts on sculpture and mythology, Zola and Dostoevsky, and life in English cities and French villages. In the poems on early fatherhood, the geography shifts from coastal stretches to bare, dimly lit rooms. Stripped back, honest, and immediate, these poems capture moments of vulnerability, when the only answer is to love. Combining skilled storytelling, precise language, an allegiance to meter and form, and a quiet musicality, these poems resonate with silence and song, mystery and wonder, exploring ideas of companionship and withdrawal, love, and the stillness of solitude. The result is a collection that promises to be a classic.

First Night of Summer

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Author : Landon Parham
Publisher : Landon Parham
ISBN 13 : 0988802503
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book First Night of Summer written by Landon Parham and published by Landon Parham. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention. Soon, their life unravels, leading them to the crossroads of love and hate, forgiveness and retribution. In the dark hours of a drizzly morning, Isaac, an ex-air force pilot, wakes to find a masked intruder cradling one of the twins in his arms. Before he can react, the man in black leaps through the nearest window, plummeting in a tangle of body parts and glass. Isaac charges in pursuit, but is suddenly faced with a new dilemma. Caroline is unconscious, lying facedown in the lawn, cuts from the shattered window saturating her pajamas. If he gives chase, his little girl will surely bleed to death. From a secretive loner with a pension for unrestrained violence to the pristine granite peaks of the Rocky Mountains-from laughter filled family dinners to a string of cross-country abductions, LANDON PARHAM'S debut novel explores the horrific realities of human weakness and obsession. Taken well beyond the investigation and law-enforcement tactics, you'll find yourself steeped in a power struggle between a father, his family and the huntsman who seeks them. Suspenseful, bold and thought provoking; a true psychological thriller that captures the heart.

Tooth Fairy's First Night

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Author : Anne Bowen
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN 13 : 1467742325
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Tooth Fairy's First Night written by Anne Bowen and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally has always longed to be a tooth fairy. On her seventh birthday, she is finally going off to get her first tooth, with the most important rule—“You must never wake a sleeping child!” running through her mind. When she reaches the house, she finds the job is not as easy as she’d hoped. A good tooth fairy always gets her tooth—but will Sally get hers? This warm and playful tale about a determined tooth fairy will have children of all ages sleeping with one eye open, hoping to catch their own tooth fairy in the act.

Service for the first nights of Passover according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews, with notes and a new Engl. tr., by A.P. Mendes. 2nd ed., revised

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Author : Haggadah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Service for the first nights of Passover according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews, with notes and a new Engl. tr., by A.P. Mendes. 2nd ed., revised written by Haggadah and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Christmas Night

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Author : Keith Christopher
Publisher : WorthyKids
ISBN 13 : 9780824956530
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The First Christmas Night written by Keith Christopher and published by WorthyKids. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeously illustrated picture book features a lyrical retelling of the birth of Christ, written in the style of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." "'Twas the very first Christmas when all through the town, not a creature was stirring--there was not a sound." This beautiful retelling of the birth of Jesus celebrates that joyous night in Bethlehem so long ago. The poem begins with the arrival of Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem and moves through Christ's birth, the angels' appearance to the shepherds, and the visit by the Wise Men. The simple, yet elegant, verses will appeal to little ones and are accompanied by the rich oil illustrations of Christine Kornacki.

The Night Before First Grade

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Author : Natasha Wing
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101636580
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Night Before First Grade written by Natasha Wing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the night before the Big Day—first grade. Penny is excited to start the year with her best friend right beside her in the same classroom. This humorous take on Clement C. Moore's classic tale has a perfect twist ending that will surprise readers—as well as the “heroine” of the story—and help all about-to-be first-graders through their own back-to-school jitters.

White Nights and Other Stories

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Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Classic Wisdom Reprint
ISBN 13 : 9781963956061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book White Nights and Other Stories written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Classic Wisdom Reprint. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.

The Lord's First Night

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Author : Alain Boureau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226067432
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Lord's First Night written by Alain Boureau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late Middle Ages to THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO to Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been the right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night. But here, in a fascinating case study of the folklore of sexuality, Alain Boureau elegantly demonstrates such tradition is a myth.

The First Night

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Author : Barbara G. Hennessy
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780670011360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The First Night written by Barbara G. Hennessy and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple retelling of the birth of Jesus with emphasis on the quiet time before the arrival of the shepherds, angels, and kings.

Nighty Night and Good Night

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Author : Michael W. Smith
Publisher : Zonderkidz
ISBN 13 : 0310767687
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Nighty Night and Good Night written by Michael W. Smith and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nighty Night and Good Night, the Nighty Nights are called upon to help their friend Ben as he falls to sleep. The cute and sleepy adventure leads the Nighty Nights to discover that a classic lullaby song does the trick to help Ben and Sleepy Puppy fall fast asleep. Founded by Michael W Smith, Nurturing StepsTM is an infant and toddler series of children’s music and books with a simple mission to enliven a child’s journey with hope and faith through music and storytelling.

First Harp Book

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Author : B. Paret
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780793555239
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book First Harp Book written by B. Paret and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harp

The First Starry Night

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Author : Joan Shaddox Isom
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781580890274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The First Starry Night written by Joan Shaddox Isom and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques encounters and befriends Vincent Van Gogh when he comes to stay in the boarding house where he works.