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The Memoirs Of Sylvia Olden Lee Premier African American Classical Vocal Coach
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Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach by : Sylvia Olden Lee
Download or read book The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach written by Sylvia Olden Lee and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of American's internationally renowned African-American classical voice coach for concert, oratorio, and opera, as well as a distinguished arranger and interpretative authority on Negro spirituals. Mrs. Lee has been a pioneer in te musical fireld as the first African-American hired onto the staffs of the metropolitan Opera and the Curtis Institute of Music. She worked with world-acclaimed singers Elisabeth Schumann, Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, Laurence Winters, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle. Her appearnce on PBS TV with Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis was a fascinating critcal interaction between artists and teacher. She has been honoured by the United Nations and the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach by : Sylvia Olden Lee
Download or read book The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach written by Sylvia Olden Lee and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of American's internationally renowned African-American classical voice coach for concert, oratorio, and opera, as well as a distinguished arranger and interpretative authority on Negro spirituals. Mrs. Lee has been a pioneer in te musical fireld as the first African-American hired onto the staffs of the metropolitan Opera and the Curtis Institute of Music. She worked with world-acclaimed singers Elisabeth Schumann, Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, Laurence Winters, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle. Her appearnce on PBS TV with Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis was a fascinating critcal interaction between artists and teacher. She has been honoured by the United Nations and the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Book Synopsis The History of Voice Pedagogy by : Rockford Sansom
Download or read book The History of Voice Pedagogy written by Rockford Sansom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious publication draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading international figures in voice training in order to examine the history of the voice from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book explores the historical arc of various voice training disciplines and highlights significant people and events within the field. It is written by voice specialists from a variety of backgrounds, including singing, actor training, public speaking, and voice science. These contributors explore how voice pedagogy came to be, how it has organized itself as a profession, how it has dealt with challenges, and how it can develop still. Covering a variety of voice training disciplines, this book will be of interest to those studying voice and speech, as well as researchers from the fields of rhetoric, music and performance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Voice and Speech Review journal.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of African American Society by : Gerald D. Jaynes
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African American Society written by Gerald D. Jaynes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic reference of African American history and culture.
Book Synopsis Autobiographical Reminiscences of African-American Classical Singers, 1853-present by : Elizabeth Nash
Download or read book Autobiographical Reminiscences of African-American Classical Singers, 1853-present written by Elizabeth Nash and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist profiles. Eva Alberta Jessye -- James Langston Hughes -- Josephine Wright -- Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield -- Sissieretta Jones -- Estelle Pinckney Clough -- Dena J. Epstein -- Benjamin M. Holmes -- Jennie Jackson -- Minnie Tate -- Maggie Porter Cole -- Thomas Rutling -- Georgie Gordon -- Julia Jackson -- Mabel Lewis -- Hinton D. Alexander -- Ella Sheppard -- E. Azalia Hackley -- Julius C. Bledsoe -- Carl Diton -- Abbie Mitchell -- Roland Hayes -- George Shirley -- Todd Duncan -- Camilla Williams -- Marian Anderson -- Paul Robeson -- Dorothy Maynor -- Betty Allen -- Leontyne Price -- William Warfield -- Shirley Verrett -- Grace Bumbry -- Simon Estes -- Jessye Norman -- Sylvia Olden Lee -- Kathleen Battle -- Vinson Cole -- Herbert Perry -- Mark S. Doss -- Denyce Graves -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Rosalyn M. Story -- James Weldon Johnson -- John Lovell, Jr. -- John Wesley Work -- J.A. Myers -- Marion Kerby -- Edward H. Boatner -- Harry T. Burleigh -- Hall Johnson -- Norman L. Merrifield -- Marvin V. Curtis -- Lee V. Cloud.
Book Synopsis Dreaming Reality by : Vladimir Miskovic
Download or read book Dreaming Reality written by Vladimir Miskovic and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2025 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dreaming Reality looks to mystical traditions to challenge orthodoxies of brain science that model consciousness in purely physical terms. Instead of privileging the experience of waking life, the authors study visionary states, ego death, meditation, prayer, and other phenomena that bring us closer to understanding how the mind makes experience."--
Book Synopsis Dreaming in Ensemble by : Lucy Caplan
Download or read book Dreaming in Ensemble written by Lucy Caplan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2025 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered countercultural forms of expression that reimagined opera as a medium of Black aesthetic and political creativity.
Download or read book Women in Music written by Karin Pendle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Book Synopsis Classical Music's Evocation of the Myth of Childhood by : Ian Sharp
Download or read book Classical Music's Evocation of the Myth of Childhood written by Ian Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work seeks to fill an important gap in the music education literature: the significance of important music by important composers and the essence of the childhood experience. It aims to avoid being yet another teaching methodology. Instead, Ian Sharp links an analysis of childhood qua childhood with music expressly about childhood.
Book Synopsis The Solo Vocal Music of American Composer John La Montaine by : Pearl Yeadon McGinnis
Download or read book The Solo Vocal Music of American Composer John La Montaine written by Pearl Yeadon McGinnis and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John La Montaine is known primarily for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 9, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1959. In addition, he has won countless awards for composition. However, his compositions for voice and piano are not yet an established part of the vocal solo repertoire. This work illustrates La Montaine's music for voice and piano through an analysis of musical and dramatic elements that support the text and drama. A biographical study provides details about the composer's life such as musical training, personal influences, awards and goals. In addition, the issues of philosophy, creativity, methods, musical styles, and textual considerations are discussed and are the basis for the following analysis.
Book Synopsis Symphonic Program Music and Its Literary Sources by : Lawrence Casler
Download or read book Symphonic Program Music and Its Literary Sources written by Lawrence Casler and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on specific literary resouces, this book provides information on over 260 pieces of orchestral program music up to 1950. Each entry consists of: an account of relevant aspects of the author's and composer's life and about the relationship between the music and it's source.
Book Synopsis An Historical Introduction and Translation of Ferdinando Giorgetti's Viola Method, 1854 : Metodo Per Esercitarsi a Ben Suonare L'alto-viola by : Ferdinando Giorgetti
Download or read book An Historical Introduction and Translation of Ferdinando Giorgetti's Viola Method, 1854 : Metodo Per Esercitarsi a Ben Suonare L'alto-viola written by Ferdinando Giorgetti and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferdinando Giorgetti's Metodo per Esercitarsi a Ben Suonare L'Alto Viola (A Self-Training Method for Playing the Viola Well) was first published in Florence in 1854. In this translation, Sciannameo (multidisciplinary studies, music, Carnegie Mellon University) gives background on Giorgetti's life an
Book Synopsis The Collected Writings of the German Musicologist Max Chop on the Composer Frederick Delius by : Max Chop
Download or read book The Collected Writings of the German Musicologist Max Chop on the Composer Frederick Delius written by Max Chop and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chop's main claim to fame is his 1904 study of Delius, the first on the composer to be published; it laid the foundations for future Delius biographers. Chop also produced several scholarly articles on Delius in 1907, and played a crucial role in ensuring his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet reached the stage of Berlin's Komische Oper that year. This volume brings together Chop's collected criticism of Delius in translation for the first time, and includes the original texts, a commentary and note on the author plus several previously unpublished letters. In his day he was widely respected as a musicologist, music journalist and newspaper editor. He published a number of compositions.
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record by :
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Sacred Musical Life of an Orthodox Church in America by : Stephen F. Duncan (OCCA, DMA.)
Download or read book A History of the Sacred Musical Life of an Orthodox Church in America written by Stephen F. Duncan (OCCA, DMA.) and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History of the musical life of our parish ... a melding of Greek, Russian, and Serbian musical traditions."--P. x.
Book Synopsis Bibliographic Guide to Music by : GK Hall
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Music written by GK Hall and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holdings of the Music Division of the New York Public Library cover virtually all musical subjects; its scores represent a broad spectrum of musical style and history.
Book Synopsis A Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst, with Correspondence and Diary Excerpts by : Jon C. Mitchell
Download or read book A Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst, with Correspondence and Diary Excerpts written by Jon C. Mitchell and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon and containing many of Holst's own personal letters, diaries and notebook entries, this study provides an intimate portrait of this larger-than-life personality. Many of Holst's innermost thoughts regarding musical composition, performance and music education are disclosed here. In addition, there is a significant amount of information concerning Holst's work ethics at all six of his places of employment. It also provides a view of the composer from this side of the Atlantic, shedding considerable light on Holst's plans and activities regarding his three American visits that is not found in the other biographies. A significant number of chapters are devoted to Holst's 1932 semester-long lectureship at Harvard University. The appendices include examples of Holst's manuscripts, thumbnail sketches of persons associated with his career, and (unique to this text) a chronological listing of his compositions.
