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Book Synopsis Gilbert & Sullivan's Christmas by : John Van der Kiste
Download or read book Gilbert & Sullivan's Christmas written by John Van der Kiste and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While they may not be associated with Christmas to the same degree as Charles Dickens, Gilbert and Sullivan have become part of the Christmas season. The former began his career as a dramatist writing Christmas stories and children's plays, while the latter's prolific output as a composer included music for several carols. The two dominated English culture for much of the Victorian age.
Book Synopsis Gilbert and Sullivan by : Michael Ainger
Download or read book Gilbert and Sullivan written by Michael Ainger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan.' With these words, W.S. Gilbert summed up his reasons for persisting in his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan despite the combative nature of their relationship. In fact, Michael Ainger suggests in Gilbert and Sullivan the success of the pair's work is a direct result of their personality clash, as each partner challenged the other to produce his best work. After exhaustive research into the D'Oyly Carte collection of documents, Ainger offers the most detailed account to date of Gilbert and Sullivan's starkly different backgrounds and long working partnership. Having survived an impoverished and insecure childhood, Gilbert flourished as a financially successful theater professional, married happily and established himself as a property owner. His sense of proprietorship extended beyond real estate, and he fought tenaciously to protect the integrity of his musical works. Sullivan, the product of a supportive family who nourished his talent, was much less satisfied with stability than his collaborator. His creative self-doubts and self-demands led to nervous and physical breakdowns, but it also propelled the team to break the successful mode of their earliest work to produce more ambitious pieces of theater, including The Mikado and The Yeoman of the Guards . Offering previously-unpublished draft libretti and personal letters, this thorough double-biography will be an essential addition to the library of any Gilbert and Sullivan fan.
Book Synopsis A Most Ingenious Paradox by : Gayden Wren
Download or read book A Most Ingenious Paradox written by Gayden Wren and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books written on Gilbert and Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than on their work. Examining all 14 operas in detail, this book offers a fresh look at the works themselves.
Book Synopsis Gilbert and Sullivan by : Carolyn Williams
Download or read book Gilbert and Sullivan written by Carolyn Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
Book Synopsis Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan by : Andrew Crowther
Download or read book Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan written by Andrew Crowther and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert was witty, caustic and disrespectful, one of the celebrities of the late Victorian era. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time, and with Arthur Sullivan he wrote comic operas that defined the age. He became richer and more famous than he could have imagined, but at the price of his artistic freedom. In his time Gilbert had been many things: journalist, theatre critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, writer of short stories, dramatist. Andrew Crowther examines W.S. Gilbert from all these angles, using a wealth of sources to tell the story of an angry and quarrelsome man, discontented with himself and the age he lived in, raging at life's absurdities and laughing at them. In this book Gilbert's glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life.
Download or read book The Gilbert & Sullivan Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pocket Guide to Gilbert and Sullivan by : Diane Canwell
Download or read book The Pocket Guide to Gilbert and Sullivan written by Diane Canwell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librettist William S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan teamed up to make some of the most memorable operettas of all time which still sell out to todays audience at opera houses and theaters around the world and at the cinema. This detailed book explores the themes around each operetta, setting them in the context of the day. It celebrates their biggest stars and what made the characters so memorable and recognizable.
Book Synopsis The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan by : Arthur Sullivan
Download or read book The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan written by Arthur Sullivan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas. From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, to lesser-performed gems such as the fanciful The Sorcerer and the acerbic lampoon Patience, Gilbert’s libretti are collected here in their most accurate and faithful form. There is a fascinating commentary on each work, telling the extraordinary stories behind the inspiration for the opera and its performance history, and giving plot summaries and original cast lists.
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis And Today Is Only Monday by : Vern Thornton
Download or read book And Today Is Only Monday written by Vern Thornton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going back to the 1920s the book follows the life of a man in a small New England town as he gives up a secure government job to become a newspaper reporter, then an editor, with dramatic and often humorous accounts of events of the times. Hoodwinked into a new profession, this time in law enforcement, examine his career in Connecticut and Florida that followed. His final career takes him to the Florida Attorney General's office where he becomes founder of a nationally acclaimed program. But all is not just work in the life of this man. The second part of the book recalls his various world trips of unusual circumstances and when he meets some of the most fascinating people to be found anywhere.
Book Synopsis Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography by : Hesketh Pearson
Download or read book Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography written by Hesketh Pearson and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson’s biography is of the two men who had individual, quite different, personalities – and their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works.
Book Synopsis The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan by : Isaac Goldberg
Download or read book The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan written by Isaac Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recording Broadway by : Thomas Z. Shepard
Download or read book Recording Broadway written by Thomas Z. Shepard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Grammy Award–winning producer Shepard throws open the door to the recording booth in his exuberant and fine-grained debut memoir.... Broadway aficionados will find plenty to enjoy.” - Publishers Weekly RECORDING BROADWAY: A LIFE IN CAST ALBUMS of the making of fifty-plus years’ worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with pretty much everyone who was anyone on Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein (“truly awesome but very complicated”), Sheldon Harnick (“as warm and decent as he was talented”), Barbara Cook (“one of my favorites”), Placido Domingo, Gregory Hines, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury (“so gifted and so easy to be with and to work with”), Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim (“a genius, and very easily bruised”), Barbra Streisand (“as professional at 24 as any veteran I’ve ever worked with”), Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more. Alongside this unforgettable saga is the tale of Shepard’s childhood as a small-in-stature piano prodigy from East Orange, New Jersey, and his emergence into the world as a recording producer of, first, classical music and then Broadway cast recordings. Told with verve in Shepard’s inimitable voice— a striking combination of Broadway glitz and classical-music elegance—his journey makes for a uniquely compelling story, whether or not you’re among the millions of musical lovers around the world for whom his recordings are a vital link to Broadway at its best.
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the American Musical Theatre by : Nathan Hurwitz
Download or read book A History of the American Musical Theatre written by Nathan Hurwitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the ‘20s, the ‘true musicals’ of the ‘40s, the politicisation of the ‘60s and the ‘mega-musicals’ of the ‘80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors. Nathan Hurwitz uses these factors to explain the output of each decade in turn, showing how the most popular productions spoke directly to the audiences of the time. He explores the function of musical theatre as commerce, tying each big success to the social and economic realities in which it flourished. This study spans from the earliest spectacles and minstrel shows to contemporary musicals such as Avenue Q and Spiderman. It traces the trends of this most commercial of art forms from the perspective of its audiences, explaining how staying in touch with writers and producers strove to stay in touch with these changing moods. Each chapter deals with a specific decade, introducing the main players, the key productions and the major developments in musical theatre during that period.
Book Synopsis The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan by : Ian C. Bradley
Download or read book The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan written by Ian C. Bradley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thespis -- Trial by jury -- The sorcerer -- H.M.S. Pinafore -- The pirates of penzance -- Patience -- Iolanthe -- Princess Ida -- The mikado -- Ruddigore -- The yeomen of the guard -- The gondoliers -- Utopia limited -- The grand duke
Download or read book The Gasbag written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
