Charles Mackerras

Author : Nigel Simeone,John Tyrrell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843839668

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Charles Mackerras by Nigel Simeone,John Tyrrell Pdf

By the time of his death in 2010 at the age of 84, Sir Charles Mackerras had achieved widespread recognition, recorded extensively and developed into a conductor of major international significance. In addition to areas in which he already had forged a distinctive and definitive profile (Janacek, Mozart, Handel, Sullivan) he revisited - and rethought - much of the standard repertoire. The last thirty years were particularly momentous in the coming to fruition of so many cherished projects: not only the Janacek operas but the Gilbert and Sullivan series, the Mozart operas, the two Beethoven cycles, other projects with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Schumann and Brahms at Edinburgh; the outstanding late Mozart) and at the Royal Opera House and the Met. Unspoilt by fame, and undeterred by personal tragedies and increasing physical frailty, he remained productive and inventive: for him music-making, whether with world-class professionals or with students, was a kind of joyous oxygen that kept him going right to the end. A detailed narrative account of his life by Nigel Simeone is complemented by chapters written by performers and scholars who worked closely with him: Alfred Brendel, Dame Janet Baker, David Lloyd-Jones, Dame Anne Evans, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Nicholas Hytner, John Tyrrell and Jiri Zahradka. There are also chapters based on interviews with his family. The book is illustrated with photographs, both informal and professional, and is supplemented by an up-to-date discography, by listings of all the performances of Janacek operas Sir Charles conducted and of all his concerts in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. While Sir Charles' whole life is considered, emphasis is given to his final quarter century in which so many important projects were realized. This book celebrates and epitomizes an exceptional life. NIGEL SIMEONE has published books on Janacek, Messiaen and Bernstein. JOHN TYRRELL has published books on Janacek and Czech opera and, with Sir Charles Mackerras, edited two Janacek operas. Contributors: Janet Baker, Alfred Brendel, Ales Brezina, Rosenna East, Anne Evans, Nicholas Hytner, Simon Keenlyside, David Lloyd-Jones, David Mackie, Chi-chi Nwanoku, Antonio Pappano, Nigel Simeone, John Stein, Heinz Stolba, Patrick Summers, John Tyrrell, Malcolm Walker, David Whelton, Jiri Zahradka

Author : Stephen Alomes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521629780

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When London Calls by Stephen Alomes Pdf

For thousands of young Australians the tearful dockside farewell was a rite of passage as they boarded ships bound for London. For some the journey was an extended holiday, but for many actors, painters, musicians, writers and journalists, leaving Australia seemed to be the only path to personal and professional fulfilment. This book, first published in 2000, is a collective biography of those people who found themselves categorised as expatriates - people such as Leo McKern, Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Tuckwell, Don Banks, Phillip Knightley, John Pilger, Peter Porter, Richard Neville, Jill Neville and 'megastars' Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James. The book tells of choices they made about career and country, yet it is also a cultural history that traces shifts in the complex relationship between Australia and Britain, as the supposed colonial backwater began to develop its own cultural identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Music calendars
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130075703

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International Music Calendar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clifford Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3189 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135939618

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Contemporary World Musicians by Clifford Thompson Pdf

Music lovers, researchers, students, librarians, and teachers can trace the personal and artistic influences behind music makers from Elton John to Leontyne Price. Individual entries on over 400 of the world's most renowned and accomplished living performers, composers, conductors, and band leaders in musical genres from opera to hip-hop. Also includes an in-depth Index covering musicians of all eras, so that readers can learn which artists, alive or dead, influenced the work of today's most important figures in the music industry.

Author : Robert Reilly
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781681497044

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Surprised by Beauty by Robert Reilly Pdf

The best music of the 20th century "developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life' ". — from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise—and its acceptance as music—was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music. It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen—because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces "is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human". The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true.

Author : Charles Affron,Mirella Jona Affron
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520958975

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Grand Opera by Charles Affron,Mirella Jona Affron Pdf

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this first new history of the company in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire and brings to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. From the opening night Faust to the recent controversial production of Wagner’s "Ring," Grand Opera is a remarkable account of management and audience response to the push and pull of tradition and reinvention. Spanning the decades between the Gilded Age and the age of new media, this story of the Met concludes by tipping its hat to the hugely successful "Live in HD" simulcasts and other twenty-first-century innovations. Grand Opera’s appeal extends far beyond the large circle of opera enthusiasts. Drawing on unpublished documents from the Metropolitan Opera Archives, reviews, recordings, and much more, this richly detailed book looks at the Met in the broad context of national and international issues and events.

Author : Kenyon C. Rosenberg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810820412

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A Basic Classical and Operatic Recordings Collection for Libraries by Kenyon C. Rosenberg Pdf

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Author : Dorottya Fabian,John Napier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527520660

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Diversity in Australia’s Music by Dorottya Fabian,John Napier Pdf

This volume showcases academic research into the rich diversity of music in Australia from colonial times to the present. Starting with an overview of developments during the past 50 years, the contributions discuss Western and non-western genres (opera, film, dance, choral, chamber); the history of music-making in particular cosmopolitan and regional centres (Canberra, Brisbane, the Hunter Valley, Alice Springs); old, new, and experimental compositions; and a variety of performers and ensembles active at particular points in time. In addition, cultural tropes and music as social practice are also explored, providing a rich tapestry of music and music-making in the country. The volume thus serves as a model for representing and approaching multicultural musical societies in an inclusive and comprehensive manner.

Author : Susie Gilbert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571268658

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Opera for Everybody by Susie Gilbert Pdf

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the ever-changing theatrical style, Gilbert provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years. Inspired by the idealism of Lilian Baylis, the company has been based on the belief that opera in the vernacular can not only reach out to even the least privileged members of society but also create a potent and immediate communication with its audience. With full access to ENO's archive, Gilbert has unearthed a rich range of material and held numerous interviews with a fascinating array of personalities, to weave an absorbing tale of life both in front and behind the scenes of ENO as it developed over the years.

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761869498

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Recalling Childhood by Nicholas Tarling Pdf

What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book. Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, playmates, teachers, classmates, pets; their manners, training, rewards and punishments; food; play, toys; likes, dislikes; schools, kindergarten, elementary; outings, holidays, travel; notable experiences; dreams, nightmares, pleasures, fears. They were also invited to give an account of their physical surroundings, their home, and the context of everyday life, what they took for granted; and to draw attention to a past in which so much of what is now common was then absent: TV, cell-phones, ubiquitous motor cars, air travel. The question was directed to and accepted by people from a number of countries and with a range of experiences. Several are or were academics, and the introduction contains some comments on memory and points to commonalities among the remembered experiences, as well as differences. But the book is mainly for the general reader, who may want to ask: what can I remember of my childhood? - Let me try!

Author : Clyde T. McCants
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786419520

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American Opera Singers and Their Recordings by Clyde T. McCants Pdf

This book focuses on American opera singers and what their recordings say about their artistry. It is not a book about all American opera singers, since many who had important careers on stage, made few, if any, recordings. And many of those who did make recordings, did so prior to the introduction of electrical recording in 1925 (and the resulting advances in the reproduction of the human voice). Opera enthusiasts can only imagine the sound of Farinelli's voice or read what his contemporaries have written about it, but with almost any famous or near-famous singer of recent years, enthusiasts do not have to imagine. Their voices are available through the technology of sound recording. There are 53 entries, one each for 52 singers and a composite entry for a group of Hollywood vocalists. Each entry contains biographical information and is followed by a discography of operatic recordings to be used in conjunction with the critical commentaries. The entries are in alphabetical order by the singer's last name and provide critical analyses of key recordings and of the artists' gifts and limitations.

Author : Nancy Phelan,Charles Mackerras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Conductors
ISBN : 0195548833

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Charles Mackerras by Nancy Phelan,Charles Mackerras Pdf

Author : David Littlejohn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520325579

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The Ultimate Art by David Littlejohn Pdf

Author : Tanya Buchdahl Tintner
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Conductors (Music)
ISBN : 1742582567

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Out of Time by Tanya Buchdahl Tintner Pdf

Conductor composer Georg Tintner is best known to music lovers for his stunning interpretations of Bruckners symphonies, recorded in the 1990s. A man who lived and breathed music, his long and eventful career began at the age of eight, when he was the first Jew to join the Vienna Boys Choir.

Author : Judith Barger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781666957358

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The Nurse in History and Opera: From Servant to Sister by Judith Barger Pdf

This book explores the role of the ubiquitous nurse character found in over one hundred operas and provides insight into opera nurses’ unique musical and dramatic journey from servant to sister, and women’s perceived place and status on the opera stage and in society.