Leopold Stokowski 1882 1977

Author : John Hunt
Publisher : John Hunt
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011426181

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Leopold Stokowski, 1882-1977 by John Hunt Pdf

This edition includes the Concert Register. About the compiler: John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music Societies. In his capacity as Chairman of the Furtwängler Society UK, John Hunt has attended conventions in Rome, Paris and Zürich and has contributed to important reference works about Furtwängler by John Ardoin and Joachim Matzner. He has also translated from the German Jürgen Kesting's important monograph on Maria Callas. John Hunt has published discographies of over 80 performing artists, several of which have run into two or more editions.

Author : Preben Opperby
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042435573

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Leopold Stokowski by Preben Opperby Pdf

Studie over het leven van de Amerikaanse dirigent (1882-1977).

Author : Rollin Smith
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1576471039

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Stokowski and the Organ by Rollin Smith Pdf

Leopold Stokowski began his career in England as an organist and choirmaster. This first major study of Stokowski's early years covers his education at the Royal College of Music, his church posts in London, and his three years spent as director of music at New York's prestigious St. Bartholomew's Church. An examination of the programs of his organ recitals (played on the third largest organ in America), a list of his repertoire, facsimiles of his original choral works, an analysis of his Aeolian player organ roll of Bach's Passacaglia, and a detailed study of his famous orchestral transcriptions of Bach's organ works, reveals a new and unique insight into Stokowski's unparalleled career in music.

Author : William H. Young,Nancy K. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313027352

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Music of the Great Depression by William H. Young,Nancy K. Young Pdf

Prior to the stock market crash of 1929 American music still possessed a distinct tendency towards elitism, as songwriters and composers sought to avoid the mass appeal that critics scorned. During the Depression, however, radio came to dominate the other musical media of the time, and a new era of truly popular music was born. Under the guidance of the great Duke Ellington and a number of other talented and charismatic performers, swing music unified the public consciousness like no other musical form before or since. At the same time the enduring legacies of Woody Guthrie in folk, Aaron Copeland in classical, and George and Ira Gershwin on Broadway stand as a testament to the great diversity of tastes and interests that subsisted throughout the Great Depression, and play a part still in our lives today. The lives of these and many other great musicians come alive in this insightful study of the works, artists, and circumstances that contributed to making and performing the music that helped America through one of its most difficult times. The American History through Music series examines the many different styles of music that have played a significant part in our nation's history. While volumes in this series show the multifaceted roles of music in our culture, they also use music as a lens through which readers may study American social history. The authors present in-depth analysis of American musical genres, significant musicians, technological innovations, and the many connections between music and the realms of art, politics, and daily life.

Author : John Hunt,Leopold Stokowski Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:603133749

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Leopold Stokowski - Discography, Concert Register by John Hunt,Leopold Stokowski Society Pdf

Author : Steven Skiena,Charles B. Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107041370

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Who's Bigger? by Steven Skiena,Charles B. Ward Pdf

In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions, just as Google ranks webpages. They present rankings of more than one thousand of history's most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.

Author : Discover Classical Music (Firm)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : MP3 (Audio coding standard)
ISBN : 9781906392376

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Discover Classical Music by Discover Classical Music (Firm) Pdf

"Is this a book with a CD or a CD with a book? ... a 350 page book with a CD of 152 tracks and over nineteen hours of music, not to mention the website with classical concert listings, news, releases and offers ... " -- Publishers note p. 3.

Author : Wayne Cottrell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780578472430

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Top Popular Music of the Early 20th Century: 1900 - 1949 -- Rankings, Artists & Links by Wayne Cottrell Pdf

This book features by-decade rankings of music singles and albums, in six different genres, covering the first half of the 20th century. The decade of the 1890s is also included. The rankings pertain to U.S. music charts, wherein a typical week's chart would be based on sales, radio airplays, jukebox plays, and-or a combination of one or more of these. The genres include children's, classical, country, instrumental, popular, and rhythm & blues music. Short biographies on a selection of artists are located throughout the book. The artists index includes some vital statistics.

Author : Bibi Pelic
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783746062853

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Music and Leadership by Bibi Pelic Pdf

The classical music conductor is considered by many to be the perfect representation of the successful, empowering leader. Leading a classical music orchestra demands exceptional leadership qualities and styles. Twenty-first century thought leaders point out to the importance of interdisciplinary learning as key to leading businesses and other professional fields forward. Knowledge and experiences from leaders in other disciplines open new visions as to the art of leadership. Music & Leadership is a novel leadership concept, answering the current business world call for new concepts and frameworks within which to understand leadership of today and tomorrow. Exploring and discovering leadership through the lens of the classical music conductor and orchestra, the objective of this book is to trigger your ability to think creatively and critically appraise your own leadership style and behavioural patterns and how you can implement lessons learned from this book in your working environment. By looking into the work of the music conductor and orchestra, the executive is offered a new way of thinking about business and leadership.

Author : Cormac Newark,William Weber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190224219

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The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon by Cormac Newark,William Weber Pdf

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has become the concrete edifice it was never meant to be, by tracing its evolution from a market entirely driven by novelty to one of the most canonic art forms still in existence. Throughout the book, a lively assembly of musicologists, historians, and industry professionals tackle key questions of opera's past, present, and future. Why did its canon evolve so differently from that of concert music? Why do its top ten titles, all more than a century old, now account for nearly a quarter of all performances worldwide? Why is this system of production becoming still more top-heavy, even while the repertory seemingly expands, notably to include early music? Topics range from the seventeenth century to the present day, from Russia to England and continental Europe to the Americas. To reflect the contested nature of many of them, each is addressed in paired chapters. These complement each other in different ways: by treating the same geographical location in different periods, by providing different national or regional perspectives on the same period, or by thinking through similar conceptual issues in contrasting or changing contexts. Posing its questions in fresh, provocative terms, The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon challenges scholarly assumptions in music and cultural history, and reinvigorates the dialogue with an industry that is, despite everything, still growing.

Author : José Antonio Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521527910

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The Cambridge Companion to Conducting by José Antonio Bowen Pdf

In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.

Author : Judith Tick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195139884

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Music in the USA by Judith Tick Pdf

Presents a compilation of primary source materials on American music, from 1540-2000, including some facsimiles.

Author : Andrea Olmstead
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538118092

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Vincent Persichetti by Andrea Olmstead Pdf

Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold is the first critical biography of the esteemed American composer, bringing together scholarly work and short contributed essays of prominent performers. Andrea Olmstead weaves a captivating narrative of the composer from his early life to his musical activities at Juilliard and death in 1987.

Author : Christopher Dyment
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271009

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Conducting the Brahms Symphonies by Christopher Dyment Pdf

How did Brahms conduct his four symphonies? What did he want from other conductors when they performed these works, and to which among them did he give his approval? And crucially, are there any stylistic pointers to these performances in early recordings of the symphonies made in the first half of the twentieth century? For the first time, Christopher Dyment provides a comprehensive and in-depth answer to these important issues. Drawing together thestrands of existing research with extensive new material from a wide range of sources - the views of musicians, contemporary journals, memoirs, biographies and other critical literature - Dyment presents a vivid picture of historic performance practice in Brahms's era and the half-century that followed. Here is a remarkable panorama showcasing Brahms himself conducting, together with those conductors whom he heard, among them Levi, Richter, Nikisch, Weingartner and Fritz Steinbach, and their disciples, such as Toscanini, Stokowski, Boult and Fritz Busch. Here, too, are other famed Brahms conductors of the early twentieth century, including Furtwängler and Abendroth, whose connections with the Brahms tradition are closely examined. Dyment then analyses recordings of the symphonies by these conductors and highlights aspects which the composer might well have commended. Finally, Dyment suggests the importanceof his conclusions for those contemporary conductors who are currently attempting to rediscover genuine performance traditions in their own re-creations of the symphonies. This major study is complemented with forty photographs and a frontispiece. It is sure to fascinate musicians, Brahms enthusiasts and those interested in the history of recorded music. CHRISTOPHER DYMENT is author of Felix Weingartner: Recollections and Recordings(Triad Press 1976) and Toscanini in Britain (The Boydell Press 2012). He has published many articles about historic conductors over the last forty years.

Author : Lincoln Ballard,Matthew Bengtson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442232624

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The Alexander Scriabin Companion by Lincoln Ballard,Matthew Bengtson Pdf

This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists – all experts in Russian music – takes a fresh look at the supercharged music and polarizing reception of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. From his Chopin-inspired miniatures to his genre-bending symphonies and avant-garde late works, Scriabin left a unique mark on music history. Scriabin’s death centennial in 2015 brought wider exposure and renewed attention to this pioneering composer. Music lovers who are curious about Scriabin have been torn between specialized academic studies and popular sources that glamorize his interests and activities, often at the expense of historical accuracy. This book bridges the divide between these two branches of literature, and brings a modern perspective to his music and legacy. Drawing on archival materials, primary sources in Russian, and recently published books and articles, Part One details the reception and performance history of Scriabin’s solo piano and orchestral music. High quality recordings are recommended for each piece. Part Two explores four topics in Scriabin’s reception: the myths generated by Scriabin’s biographers, his claims to synaesthesia or “color-hearing,” his revival in 1960s America as a proto-Flower Child, and the charges of anti-Russianness leveled against his music. Part Three investigates stylistic context and performance practice in the piano music, and considers the domains of sound, rhythm, and harmony. It offers interpretive strategies for deciphering Scriabin’s challenging scores at the keyboard. Students, scholars, and music enthusiasts will benefit from the historical insights offered in this interdisciplinary book. Armed with this knowledge, readers will be able to better appreciate the stylistic innovations and colorful imagination of this extraordinary composer.