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Author : Arthur Bloomfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (155 download)
Download or read book San Francisco Opera --1978 written by Arthur Bloomfield and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Bloomfield
Publisher : New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Opera, 1923-1961 written by Arthur Bloomfield and published by New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts. This book was released on 1961 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Haas
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 194890814X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Civic Center written by James Haas and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco is known and loved around the world for its iconic man-made structures, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Transamerica Pyramid. Yet its Civic Center, with the grandest collection of monumental municipal buildings in the United States, is often overlooked, drawing less global and local interest, despite its being an urban planning marvel featuring thirteen government office and cultural buildings. In The San Francisco Civic Center, James Haas tells the complete story of San Francisco’s Civic Center and how it became one of the most complete developments envisioned by any American city. Originally planned and designed by John Galen Howard in 1912, the San Francisco Civic Center is considered in both design and materials one of the finest achievements of the American reformist City Beautiful movement, an urban design movement that began more than a century ago. Haas meticulously unravels the Civic Center’s story of perseverance and dysfunction, providing an understanding and appreciation of this local and national treasure. He discusses why the Civic Center was built, how it became central to the urban planning initiatives of San Francisco in the early twentieth century, and how the site held onto its founders’ vision despite heated public debates about its function and achievement. He also delves into the vision for the future and related national trends in city planning and the architectural and art movements that influenced those trends. Riddled with inspiration and leadership as well as controversy, The San Francisco Civic Center, much like the complex itself, is a stunning manifestation of the confident spirit of one of America’s most dynamic and creative cities.
Author : Leta E. Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268911
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Music and Politics in San Francisco written by Leta E. Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Leta Miller’s long-awaited study is a tightly woven, fast-paced, and luminous chronicle of San Francisco’s musical coming of age. Her keen insights into Chinese opera, night club jazz, and two international expositions go far to rekindle the era’s spirited mix of talent, taste, patronage, and politics. The groundbreaking work of an accomplished music and social historian, Music and Politics in San Francisco is a most welcome companion to Catherine Parsons Smith’s Making Music in Los Angeles.” —Jonathan Elkus, Lecturer in Music Emeritus, UC Davis “From three disastrous days in April 1906 through the onset of an even greater disaster in 1941, from the San Francisco Conservatory through the performances of the Chinese Opera, Leta Miller traces the musico-political history of ‘the Paris of the West’ in meticulous detail. This important book adds immeasurably to our knowledge of West Coast American music, whilst simultaneously challenging a number of historiographical shibboleths.” —David Nicholls, contributing editor of The Cambridge History of American Music "Leta Miller’s San Francisco’s Musical Life is a pure pleasure to read. Miller manages that rare feat of digesting what must have been many years of digging through newspapers and archives into a fun, lively, highly readable narrative. Each chapter strikes a comfortable balance among factual exposition, colorful anecdote, and historical analysis. Miller brings equal depth and insight to each of her disparate subjects, she writes with charm and clarity throughout, and the whole is arranged in a way that is clear and logical, never monotonous." —Mary Ann Smart, author of Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera
Author : Gregory De Silva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Version of Don Carlos written by Gregory De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810883252
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Operas in English written by Margaret Ross Griffel and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.
Author : Jeannie Williams
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555536749
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Jon Vickers written by Jeannie Williams and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of a legendary tenor.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091949
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 2010-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning book, now available in paperback, is the first solid appraisal of the legendary career of the eminent Hungarian-born conductor Fritz Reiner (1888-1963). Personally enigmatic and often described as difficult to work with, he was nevertheless renowned for the dynamic galvanization of the orchestras he led, a nearly unrivaled technical ability, and high professional standards. Reiner's influence in the United States began in the early 1920s and lasted until his death. Reiner was also deeply committed to serious music in American life, especially through the promotion of new scores. In Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet, Kenneth Morgan paints a very real portrait of a man who was both his own worst enemy and one of the true titans of his profession.
Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571132376
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal written by William Kinderman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923930
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Dream Endures written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression--unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies--in Endangered Dreams, the fourth volume of his classic history of California. In The Dream Endures, Starr reveals the other side of the picture, examining the newly important places where the good life flourished, like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein went and changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. We read about the rich urban life of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in newly important communities like Carmel and San Simeon, the home of William Randolph Hearst, where, each Thursday afternoon, automobiles packed with Hollywood celebrities would arrive from Southern California for the long weekend at Hearst Castle. The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios. Starr offers an astute discussion of the European refugees who arrived in Hollywood during the period: prominent European film actors and artists and the creative refugees who were drawn to Hollywood and Southern California in these years--Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Man Ray, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and Franz Werfel. Starr gives a fascinating account of how many of them attempted to recreate their European world in California and how others, like Samuel Goldwyn, provided stories and dreams for their adopted nation. Starr reserves his greatest attention and most memorable writing for San Francisco. For Starr, despite the city's beauty and commercial importance, San Francisco's most important achievement was the sense of well-being it conferred on its citizens. It was a city that "magically belonged to everyone." Whether discussing photographers like Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, "hard-boiled fiction" writers, or the new breed of female star--Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and the improbable Mae West--The Dream Endures is a brilliant social and cultural history--in many ways the most far-reaching and important of Starr's California books.
Author : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521426978
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Singers of Italian Opera written by John Rosselli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
Author : San Francisco Opera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (198 download)
Download or read book San Francisco Opera Association and War Memorial Opera House written by San Francisco Opera and published by . This book was released on 1937* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Chatfield-Taylor
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811813686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (136 download)
Download or read book San Francisco Opera written by Joan Chatfield-Taylor and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated retrospective profiles the lively history of the San Francisco Opera. In the fall of 1997, the prestigious company returns to its original, newly renovated performance space, the War Memorial Opera House, and at the same time celebrates its seventy-fifth season. A spectacular chronicle of glamour, glory, and years of hard work, this book rediscovers the illustrious directors, the young singers, the brilliant costume and set designers, and, of course, the stars who have made the San Francisco Opera an institution. Many of the world's greatest voices, including Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tibaldi, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras, are pictured in breathtaking photographs, along with spectacular reproductions of stage sets and original costume sketches from the Opera's archives. Including a chronological list of every performance since 1922, this lavish celebration is a must-have for all opera fans and theater lovers.
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113557801X
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Opera written by Guy A. Marco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Author : San Francisco Opera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (198 download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Opera--double Anniversary Season, 1957 written by San Francisco Opera and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Bloomfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of the San Francisco Opera written by Arthur Bloomfield and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert H. Cowden
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Opera Companies of the World written by Robert H. Cowden and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-02-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time are in-depth profiles of 139 major opera companies from around the globe, representing 35 countries, from Argentina to Yugoslavia, and including little-known information on opera in the People's Republic of China, Israel, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, and Turkey. Briefly noted in an appendix are an additional 24 companies from ten countries, three of them not included in the main section. The profiles provide directory and access information, a survey of the company's history, and, wherever possible, a chronological listing of directors and managers, and a concise bibliography for further reference. An annotated research bibliography contains general sources, such as reference books, opera annals, architectural studies, discographies, and relevant studies of conductors and performers. A chronology of the foundings of the opera companies and an index complete the volume. Much of the information is singularly available in this source, which will be welcomed by scholars, researchers, and opera lovers.
