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Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders

Author : Kate Griffin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057130270X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders written by Kate Griffin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises a singular scheme to discover the truth. But as Kitty's scandalous and terrifying act becomes the talk of London, she finds herself facing someone even more deadly and horrifying than The Lady. Bold, impetuous and blessed with more brains than she cares to admit, it soon becomes apparent that it's up to the unlikely team of Kitty and her stagehand friend, Lucca, to unravel the truth and ensure that more girls do not meet with a similar fate. But are Kitty's courage and common sense and Lucca's book learning a match for the monster in the shadows? Their investigations take them from the gin-fuelled halls and doss houses of the East End to the champagne-fuelled galleries of the West End. Take nothing at face value: Kitty is about to step out on a path of discovery that changes everything . . .

Through the Lens

Author :
Publisher : Cincinnati Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780986423871
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Through the Lens written by and published by Cincinnati Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Matthew Zory, a Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra musician and an award-winning photographer, documenting the historic renovation of Cincinnati Music Hall was a revelation.¿I¿ve played in Music Hall for more than 20 years, but photographing the renovation enabled me to explore parts of the building I¿d never seen before,¿ says Zory, assistant principal bass (Trish and Rick Bryan Chair). ¿Watching work crews uncover the `bones¿ of Music Hall gave me a new appreciation for the incredible craftsmanship that went into the building.¿Zory spent hundreds of hours photographing the hall during its 16-month renovation and is publishing a book featuring some of his favorite shots. Through the Lens: The Remaking of Cincinnati¿s Music Hall, a 272-page limited edition coffee-table book was released in 2018 to high praise.¿I never intended to publish a book,¿ he says. ¿As a matter of fact, I never intended to photograph the entire renovation project. I thought I¿d go in a couple of times, take a few pictures and that would be it. But everything they were doing was so interesting and the light was so fantastic, I kept going back. I posted a lot of photos on Facebook, and people kept asking, `When is the book coming out?¿ It made me realize that other people were as captivated by the project as I was.¿For Zory, whose work has appeared in numerous local galleries, including the Taft Museum, Carnegie Center for the Arts and Wash Park Art, creating a book meant winnowing a portfolio of more than 10,000 photos down to a few hundred for publication. ¿There was so much I wanted to share with people about this project and the people who worked on it,¿ he says. ¿The scale of the project and the workmanship that went into renovating it really was extraordinary. I¿ve tried to capture all of that¿

Music Hall: How a City Built a Theater and a Theater Shaped a City

Author : J. Dennis Robinson
Publisher : Great Life Press
ISBN 13 : 9781938394348
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Music Hall: How a City Built a Theater and a Theater Shaped a City written by J. Dennis Robinson and published by Great Life Press. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portsmouth's historic Music Hall has welcomed the best from Victorian superstars Buffalo Bill, Tom Thumb, and Mark Twain to today's top musicians, comics, authors, and performers. Built in 1878, expanded by Frank Jones in 1901, the theater's spacious stage and phenomenal acoustics have made it one of the finest venues in New England. Within these brick walls generations have seen America evolve from minstrel shows and silent films to jaw-dropping musicals and Hollywood blockbusters, from animal acts to symphony orchestras, and from vaudeville slapstick to provocative Ted talks. Behind the scenes, the Music Hall story is a wild ride from thriving to barely surviving and back. Fully researched, artfully written, and richly illustrated, this volume is a must-read for anyone who cherishes the performing arts.Shuttered and decaying during World War II, New Hampshire's vintage venue went on the auction block in 1945. Recast as the Civic, it served as a movie house for the next four decades. Following two failed revivals in the 1980s, the century-old structure came close to being turned into condominiums. Saved from demolition by a grassroots team of volunteers, the nonprofit Friends of the Music Hall launched an unprecedented $13.5 million capital campaign. Signature programs like the "Telluride by the Sea" film festival and "Writers on a New England Stage" have put New Hampshire's historic theater on the national map. Today the restored Music Hall delivers hundreds of diverse cultural events annually, both in the historic 900-seat hall and in its modern new Loft stage nearby. Digging even deeper, this book traces the development of the performing arts in Portsmouth from the arrival of its first settlers. We glimpse the city's colonial gentry partying at the Assembly House, hear the shrill sounds of early church singers, and wander the "lewd amusements" of a post-Revolutionary seaport. We watch as an acre of forest land is transformed from an almshouse and prison to a church, a temperance hall, a public lyceum and a theater. And we discover how that beloved theater--called "the beating heart of cultural Portsmouth"-has shaped the city that built and preserved it.

Wild Symphony

Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0593704231
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Wild Symphony written by Dan Brown and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown makes his picture book debut with this mindful, humorous, musical, and uniquely entertaining book! The author will be donating all US royalties due to him to support music education for children worldwide, through the New Hampshire Charitable foundation. Travel through the trees and across the seas with Maestro Mouse and his musical friends! Young readers will meet a big blue whale and speedy cheetahs, tiny beetles and graceful swans. Each has a special secret to share. Along the way, you might spot the surprises Maestro Mouse has left for you- a hiding buzzy bee, jumbled letters that spell out clues, and even a coded message to solve! Children and adults can enjoy this timeless picture book as a traditional read-along, or can choose to listen to original musical compositions as they read--one for each animal--with a free interactive smartphone app, which uses augmented reality to play the appropriate song for each page when a phone's camera is held over it.

Preservation Hall

Author : William Carter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780304705177
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Preservation Hall written by William Carter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carter tells the story of the hall itself, the personalities who ran it, and above all, the music and musicians of New Orleans.

Satie the Bohemian

Author : Steven Moore Whiting
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191584525
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Satie the Bohemian written by Steven Moore Whiting and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music. Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies. He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall. From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.

The Victorian Music Hall

Author : Dagmar Kift
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521474726
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Music Hall written by Dagmar Kift and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting music-hall history within a national perspective. Kift also sheds a new light on the roles of managements, performers and audiences. For example, the author confutes the commonly held assumption that most women in the halls were prostitutes and shows them to have been working women accompanied by workmates of both sexes or by their families. She argues that before the 1890s the halls catered predominantly to working-class and lower middle-class audiences of men and women of all ages and were instrumental in giving them a strong and self-confident identity. The hall's ability to sustain a distinct class-awareness was one of their greatest strengths - but this factor was also at the root of many of the controversies which surrounded them. These controversies are at the centre of the book and Kift treats them as test cases for social relations which provide fresh insights into nineteenth-century British society and politics.

Saving Radio City Music Hall

Author : Rosemary Novellino-Mearns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990855637
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Saving Radio City Music Hall written by Rosemary Novellino-Mearns and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how Radio City Music Hall, Art Deco masterpiece and one of New York City's iconic tourist attractions and cultural landmarks, was saved from demolition is told at last. Nearly forty years later, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns, Dance Captain of the legendary Radio City Music Hall Ballet Company during the 1970s, tells the amazing story of how she motivated a small group of dedicated colleagues, friends, media and political allies to join forces, challenge the Rockefeller establishment and, against all odds, save "the Showplace of the Nation."

The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920

Author : Sam Beale
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030479412
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920 written by Sam Beale and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880–1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions. Focusing on the under-researched female ‘serio-comic’, the study includes six micro-histories detailing the acts of Ada Lundberg, Bessie Bellwood, Maidie Scott, Vesta Victoria, Marie Lloyd and Nellie Wallace. Uniquely for women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, these pioneering performers had public voices. The extent to which their comedy challenged Victorian and Edwardian perceptions of women is revealed through explorations of how they connected with popular audiences while also avoiding censorship. Their use of techniques such as comic irony and stereotyping, self-deprecation, and comic innuendo are considered alongside the work of contemporary stand-up comedians and performance artists including Bridget Christie, Bryony Kimmings, Sara Pascoe, Shazia Mirza and Sarah Silverman.

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Author : Patricia MacKay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904031239
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Walt Disney Concert Hall written by Patricia MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iron

Author : Gil Garcetti
Publisher : Balcony Press
ISBN 13 : 1890449288
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Iron written by Gil Garcetti and published by Balcony Press. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graceful curves of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are familiar to anyone interested in contemporary architecture or the work of this great master. They are also famous, if not infamous, to the ironworkers faced with the challenge of building them. With a building skin stretched tight and tolerances shaved to a thousandth of an inch, there was simply no room for typical industry standards. A new breed of ironworker was required, one who relies on modern tools like lasers, yet whose muscular forms wielding hammers hundreds of feet above the ground testify still to the great unchanging tradition of their trade. Photographer Gil Garcetti had unparalleled free access to the construction site. The personal relationships he developed with the workers over the course of many months and his admiration for their artistry are evident in these moving portraits. Garcetti's evocative images, reproduced in rich duotones, bring to life the romantic ideal of the heavy industry.

The Box of Delights

Author : John Masefield
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590172513
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Box of Delights written by John Masefield and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: “The wolves are running.” Soon danger is everywhere, as a gang of criminals headed by the notorious wizard Abner Brown and his witch wife Sylvia Daisy Pouncer gets to work. What does Abner Brown want? The magic box that the old man has entrusted to Kay, which allows him to travel freely not only in space but in time, too. The gang will stop at nothing to carry out their plan, even kidnapping Kay’s friend, the tough little Maria Jones, and threatening to cancel Christmas celebrations altogether. But with the help of his allies, including an intrepid mouse, a squadron of Roman soldiers, the legendary Herne the Hunter, and the inventor of the Box of Delights himself, Kay just may be able rescue his friend, foil Abner Brown’s plot, and save Christmas, too. At once a thriller, a romp, and a spellbinding fantasy, The Box of Delights is a great English children’s book and a perfect Christmas treat.

Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960

Author : Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838641910
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960 written by Paul Matthew St. Pierre and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960, Dr. St. Pierre examines strategies of representing British music hall performance (1854-1919) and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era (1895-1927) and the sound era (1927-60). The focus is on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Norman Evans, Max Miller, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, and Charles Chaplin. Consideration is given to themes such as war propaganda and gender impersonation.

Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914

Author : Paul Maloney
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719061479
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914 written by Paul Maloney and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While London dominated the wider British music hall in the 19th century, Glasgow, the Second City of the Empire, was the center of a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanization. It drew heavily on older fairground and traditional forms in developing its own brand of this new urban entertainment. The book explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life. It also explores issues of national identity, both in terms of Scottish audiences' responses to the promotion of imperial themes in songs and performing material, and in the version of Scottish identity projected by Lauder and other kilted acts at home and abroad in America, Canada, Australia and throughout the English-speaking world.

The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

Author : Paul Maloney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137476591
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture written by Paul Maloney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Glasgow’s earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city’s most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues – offering everything from music hall, early cinema and amateur nights to waxworks, menageries and freak shows – this study also encompasses the model of community-based, working-class music hall which characterised the Panopticon’s later years, challenging narratives of the primacy of city centre variety. Providing a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic popular theatre of the industrial age, Maloney examines the role of the hall’s managers, marketing and promotional strategies, audiences, and performing genres from the hall’s opening in 1859 until final closure in 1938. The book also explores stage representations of Irish and Jewish immigrant communities present in surrounding city centre areas, demonstrating the Britannia’s diasporic links to other British cities and centres in North America, thus providing a multifaceted and pioneering account of this still extant Victorian music hall.

British Music Hall

Author : Richard Anthony Baker
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473837405
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book British Music Hall written by Richard Anthony Baker and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPEMusic Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890 and the First World War. In the first book on this subject for many years, Richard Anthony Baker whisks us off on a colourful and nostalgic tour of the rise and fall of British music hall.At the beginning of the nineteenth century people sang traditional songs in taverns for entertainment. This was so popular that rooms started to be added to inns for shows to be staged, and, before long, songs were being specially composed and purpose-built theatres were springing up everywhere. Britain's working class had, for the first time, its own form of public entertainment and its own breed of stars. The colour and vitality attracted serious writers and artists, as well as the future Edward VII, and music hall became simultaneously the haunt of the working classes and the avant-garde.Including stories of a clergyman who wrote music-hall sketches, a hall in Glasgow where luckless entertainers were pulled off stage by a long hooked pole, and Cockney dictionaries that helped Americans understand touring British performers, this book is a hugely engaging slice of social history, rich in humour, tragedy and bathos.As featured on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and in the Sunderland Echo.

Parisian Music-hall Ballet, 1871-1913

Author : Sarah Gutsche-Miller
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580464424
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Parisian Music-hall Ballet, 1871-1913 written by Sarah Gutsche-Miller and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of ballets staged in Parisian music halls brings to light a vibrant dance culture central to the renewal of French choreography at the fin de siècle.