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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Soviet Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830983
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The People's Artist written by Simon Morrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in the Russian State Archives, where he uncovered a wealth of previously unknown scores, writings, correspondence, and unopened journals and diaries. The story he found in these documents is one of lofty hopes and disillusionment, of personal and creative upheavals. Morrison shows that Prokofiev seemed to thrive on uncertainty during his Paris years, stashing scores in suitcases, and ultimately stunning his fellow emigrés by returning to Stalin's Russia. At first, Stalin's regime treated him as a celebrity, but Morrison details how the bureaucratic machine ground him down with corrections and censorship (forcing rewrites of such major works as Romeo and Juliet), until it finally censured him in 1948, ending his career and breaking his health.
Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547844131
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Lina & Serge written by Simon Morrison and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the renowned composer’s neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is “a story both riveting and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin’s crimes? Why did his astonishing creativity in the 1930s soon dissolve into a far less inspiring output in his later years? The answers can finally be revealed, thanks to Simon Morrison’s unique and unfettered access to the family’s voluminous papers and his ability to reconstruct the tragic, riveting life of the composer’s wife, Lina. Morrison’s portrait of the marriage of Lina and Serge Prokofiev is the story of a remarkable woman who fought for survival in the face of unbearable betrayal and despair and of the irresistibly talented but heartlessly self-absorbed musician she married. Born to a Spanish father and Russian mother in Madrid at the end of the nineteenth century and raised in Brooklyn, Lina fell in love with a rising-star composer—and defied convention to be with him, courting public censure. She devoted her life to Serge and art, training to be an operatic soprano and following her brilliant husband to Stalin’s Russia. Just as Serge found initial acclaim—before becoming constricted by the harsh doctrine of socialist-realist music—Lina was at first accepted and later scorned, ending her singing career. Serge abandoned her and took up with another woman. Finally, Lina was arrested and shipped off to the gulag in 1948. She would be held in captivity for eight awful years. Meanwhile, Serge found himself the tool of an evil regime to which he was forced to accommodate himself. The contrast between Lina and Serge is one of strength and perseverance versus utter self-absorption, a remarkable human drama that draws on the forces of art, sacrifice, and the struggle against oppression. Readers will never forget the tragic drama of Lina’s life, and never listen to Serge’s music in quite the same way again.
Author : Oleg Dmitrievich Berlev
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Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt written by Oleg Dmitrievich Berlev and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Total Pages : 744 pages
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Download or read book The National Union Catalogs, 1963- written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Nice
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300099140
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Prokofiev written by David Nice and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book follows Prokofiev's personal and musical journey from his childhood on a Ukrainian country estate to the years he spent travelling in America and Europe as an acclaimed interpreter of his own works. Nice sheds new light on the striking compositions of Prokofiev's early years, his training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the circumstances of his departure from Russia in 1918 for what the composer thought would be a short tour of America.
Author : Slavko Borojević
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Genetika written by Slavko Borojević and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fiodor D. POLENOV
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ISBN 13 : 9780785575139
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Polenovo written by Fiodor D. POLENOV and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book The Current Digest of the Soviet Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Kirkman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317161017
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film written by Andrew Kirkman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside' stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader to perceive the motivations behind his artistic choices; at the same time, the nature of those choices offers insights into the workings of the larger world - cultural, social, political - that he inhabited. Thus his often ostensibly quirky choices are revealed as responses - by turns sentimental, moving, sardonic and angry - to the particular conditions, with all their absurdities and contradictions, that he had to negotiate. Here we see the composer emerging from the role of tortured loner of older narratives into that of the gregarious and engaged member of his society that, for better and worse, characterized the everyday reality of his life. This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of Shostakovich's working circumstances and of his response to them. The collection contains the seeds for a wide range of new directions in the study of Shostakovich's works and the larger contexts of their creation and reception.
Author : Alison Hilton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253327536
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Russian Folk Art written by Alison Hilton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects within the settings in which folk artists worked -- the peasant household, the village, and the local market -- Alison Hilton discusses the principal media artists employed and the items they produced, from dippers and goblets to clothing and window frames. Emphasizing the balance between time-honored forms and techniques and the creativity of individual artists, the book explores how images and designs helped to form a Russian esthetic identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Abundantly illustrated with examples from Russian museums, Russian Folk Art is a treasure for anyone interested in Russian culture.
Author : Yury Vasiliev
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466943661
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Over the Equator written by Yury Vasiliev and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Efremov, an intrepid Russian adventurer from the eighteenth century, chronicled his nine-year wanderings in a handwritten journal titled Nine-Year Pilgrimage and Adventure in Bukhara, Persia and India. But a part of his journey is missing from the pages of his tome. These writings were recently discovered and included in this new book, Over the Equator, which details Efremovs time spent in Africa. Departing from India in October of 1781, Efremov describes his adventure-filled travels: the culture he experienced, to the flora and fauna he observed, to the characters he witnessed. From Malinidi to Zanzibar to Pemba, Madagascar, and Lesotho and points in between, Efremov learns about seasickness, becomes a slave, discovers treasures, and feasts with Indian tribes. Over the Equator provides a deeper understanding of the culture and beauty of East and South Africa through the eyes of Philip Efremov, a little-known Russian trailblazer who lived the experience and wrote about it.
Author : Victor E. Louis
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Louis Motorist's Guide to the Soviet Union written by Victor E. Louis and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1987 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this reliable guide will be welcomed as increasing numbers of motorists plan visits to the Soviet Union. All the routes given have been tested by the authors and have been newly revised and brought up to date. Apart from the detailed practical information covering places of interest, hotels, restaurants and services, there is also a wealth of description and historical information. Provided with the book is a useful set of road-maps covering major routes and street plans of Moscow and Leningrad.
Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0871408309
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today written by Simon Morrison and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. Morrison gives the shocking violence context, describing the ballet as a crucible of art and politics beginning with the disreputable inception of the theater in 1776, through the era of imperial rule, the chaos of revolution, the oppressive Soviet years, and the Bolshoi’s recent $680 million renovation. With vibrant detail including “sex scandals, double-suicide pacts, bribery, arson, executions, prostitution rings, embezzlement, starving orphans, [and] dead cats in lieu of flowers” (New Republic), Morrison makes clear that the history of the Bolshoi Ballet mirrors that of Russia itself.
Author : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fedor Dmitrievič Polenov
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Polenovo written by Fedor Dmitrievič Polenov and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
