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Author : Quaintance Eaton
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Miracle of the Met written by Quaintance Eaton and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1976 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quaintance Eaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Miracle of the Met written by Quaintance Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780931340482
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met written by Paul Jackson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). In this first of three volumes, Paul Jackson begins a rich and detailed history of the early years of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, bringing to life more than 200 recorded broadcasts.
Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671476
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Start-up at the New Met written by Paul Jackson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new work, Paul Jackson examines the decade that saw the move from the old house uptown to the technological marvel at Lincoln Center. There Rudolf Bing's final six years give way to four seasons of management turmoil until 1976, when James Levine was named music director and took hold of the Met's artistic future.
Author : Susan Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052185167X
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930 written by Susan Rutherford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Victoria Etnier Villamil
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555536350
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (363 download)
Download or read book From Johnson's Kids to Lemonade Opera written by Victoria Etnier Villamil and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American baritone Lawrence Tibbett created an overnight sensation at the Metropolitan Opera in 1925 when the audience stopped the performance of Falstaff to honor their compatriot for his exceptional talent. Tibbett's now legendary curtain call foreshadowed a startling new era for classically trained native singers who rarely received the public recognition or respect given to their European colleagues. In this absorbing work, Victoria Etnier Villamil chronicles the extraordinary time from 1935 to 1950 when American artists, who felt intensely inferior to foreign performers, journeyed from being unappreciated in their own country to standing without apology on stages at home and abroad. Drawing on exhaustive primary research and extensive interviews, Villamil tells the remarkable story of a generation of American opera singers whose profession, image, and art were forever altered by the upheavals of World War II, as well as sweeping cultural and technological changes. The author's in-depth look at these breakthrough years explores such defining factors as Edward Johnson's drive to "Americanize the Met" in his first seasons as general manager, the impact of the microphone on singers and singing styles, and the importance of radio and motion pictures in introducing classical music voices to wider audiences. Villamil also considers how travel restrictions imposed on European artists during the war unlocked opportunities for American artists, and the role of political and Jewish refugees in enriching music education and training in this country. In addition, the author discusses thoroughly the founding of the New York City Opera, the rise of regional and smaller opera companies, including the enterprising and popular Lemonade Opera, and advancements for African American classical singers. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes and colorful figures, both famous and little remembered, the fascinating book concludes with an examination of this crucial period's legacy for the American classical music scene in the 1950s and beyond. From Johnson's Kids to Lemonade Opera contains an invaluable appendix that provides biographical sketches of the over 250 opera and radio singers, as well as art song specialists, featured in this illuminating study.
Author : Elizabeth Nash
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786492848
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Geraldine Farrar written by Elizabeth Nash and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1906 until 1922, Geraldine Farrar was the Metropolitan Opera's most popular and glamorous prima donna. Convinced that music must always serve the drama, she often sacrificed tonal beauty to dramatic effect, and her acting was noted for its intensity and realism. Nevertheless, Farrar was a superb singer, possessing a beautiful lyric soprano voice. Farrar was also a star of the silent screen, appearing in 14 films from 1915 to 1920. In retirement, she was mentor and friend to the African American soprano Camilla Williams, enabling Williams to become the first African American to have a regular contract with a major American opera company. This biography and critical analysis of Farrar's career provides a detailed account of her major contributions to the history of opera.
Author : Susan M. Filler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135946698
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Gustav and Alma Mahler written by Susan M. Filler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.
Author : Joseph Volpe
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400096758
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Toughest Show on Earth written by Joseph Volpe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager. Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than four decades at the Met, an institution full of vast egos and complicated politics. With stunning candor, he writes about the general managers he worked under, his embattled rise to the top, the maneuverings of the blue-chip board, and his masterful approach to making a family of such artist-stars as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, and Renee Fleming, and such visionary directors as Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Wilson, and Julie Taymor. Intimate and frank, The Toughest Show on Earth is not only essential for music lovers, but for anyone who wants to understand the inner workings of the culture business.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025207730X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet written by Kenneth Morgan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kenneth Morgan, who began collecting Reiner's recordings while still a schoolboy, has consulted printed and archival resources and undertaken new interviews with Reiner's associates, critics, and family. Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet also offers the first close and systematic look at Reiner's recordings, interpretations, and musicality, vividly characterizing Reiner's distinctive qualities as a conductor."--Jacket.
Author : Victoria Etnier Villamil
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629242
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book "O ma Carmen" written by Victoria Etnier Villamil and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" (What is it?) mezzo-soprano Celestine Galli-Marie asked when offered the title role in the 1875 premier of Bizet's new opera, Carmen. She was only the first in a long line of performers to ask. In the 140+ years since, each singer has crafted her own portrayal of the inscrutable Gypsy. The famous soprano Geraldine Farrar wrote: "Each one of us probably sees something that the others have not seen--or thinks she does--and that 'something' is her individual Carmen." This book explores the history of operatic portrayals of Bizet's elusive enchantress, tracing the development of vocal and dramatic interpretations from generation to generation around the globe.
Author : Peter Conolly-Smith
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345203
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Translating America written by Peter Conolly-Smith and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World War I, German immigrants quickly gave up their own culture and assimilated into American mainstream life. But in Translating America, Peter Conolly-Smith offers a radically different analysis. He argues that German immigrants became German-Americans not out of fear, but instead through their participation in the emerging forms of pop culture. Drawing from German and English newspapers, editorials, comic strips, silent movies, and popular plays, he reveals that German culture did not disappear overnight, but instead merged with new forms of American popular culture before the outbreak of the war. Vaudeville theaters, D.W. Griffith movies, John Philip Sousa tunes, and even baseball games all contributed to German immigrants' willing transformation into Americans. Translating America tackles one of the thorniest questions in American history: How do immigrants assimilate into, and transform, American culture?
Author : Howard Pollack
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054059
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Samuel Barber written by Howard Pollack and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of conductors like Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. Barber’s works have since become standard concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (Aaron Copland, George Gershwin) offers a multifaceted account of Barber’s life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural milieu. Born into a musical family, Barber pursued his artistic ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber’s path from his precocious youth through a career where, from the start, the composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like the Adagio for Strings, the Violin Concerto, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for voice and orchestra, the Piano Concerto, and the operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra, stand alongside revealing accounts of the music’s commissioning, performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in accounts of Barber’s encounters with colleagues like Aaron Copland and Francis Poulenc, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne Price to Vladimir Horowitz and Van Cliburn, patrons, admirers, and a wide circle of eminent friends and acquaintances. He also provides an eloquent portrait of the composer’s decades-long relationship with the renowned opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Informed by new interviews and immense archival research, Samuel Barber is a long-awaited critical and personal biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American music.
Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sign-off for the Old Met written by Paul Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931-1950, the author uses unpublished documents and letters from the Metropolitan Opera Archives to tell behind-the-scenes stories of the players involved.
Author : Frieda Hempel
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670363
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book My Golden Age of Singing written by Frieda Hempel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). Frieda Hempel (1885--1955) was among the greatest sopranos of opera's Golden Age. She created the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier in both Berlin and at the Metropolitan Opera, where she debuted with Caruso in 1912.
Author : C. Barrington
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137107480
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book American Chaucers written by C. Barrington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides extensive readings of overlooked American reconstructions of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales from the colonial to postmodern periods, demonstrating how these repackagings convey uniquely American ideas.
Author : Geneva H. Southall
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810845459
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-composer (1849-1908) written by Geneva H. Southall and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. In this focused, consequential study, Southall reformulates the debate surrounding Blind Tom and expands its dimensions significantly.
