Mephisto A Rhapsody

Author : Samuel Gallet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786829542

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Mephisto (A Rhapsody) by Samuel Gallet Pdf

In the town of Balbek the far right are about to seize power. At the local theatre, Aymeric dreams of celebrity; Lucas longs for a liberal revolution; Michael is seduced by the extremists; Juliette Demba is in fear for her life. As this political earthquake ripples through the town, Aymeric must make his choice: resist the forces of hatred or harness them for his own success. Based on the real life story of Gustaf Gründgens, whose dreams of fame led him to betray everything, and at the peak of his career, perform Faust for Hitler, Mephisto [A Rhapsody] is a searing contemporary response to Klaus Mann's banned, and fiercely political cult novel. Samuel Gallet's urgent new play asks: what would you sacrifice to do the right thing?

Author : Lynn M. Hooker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199908851

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Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók by Lynn M. Hooker Pdf

Some of the most popular works of nineteenth-century music were labeled either "Hungarian" or "Gypsy" in style, including many of the best-known and least-respected of Liszt's compositions. In the early twentieth century, Béla Bartók and his colleagues questioned not only the Hungarianness but also the good taste of that style. Bartók argued that it should be discarded in favor of a national style based in the "genuine" folk music of the rural peasantry. Between the heyday of the nineteenth-century Hungarian-Gypsy style and its replacement by a new paradigm of "authentic" national style was a vigorous decades-long debate-one little known inside or outside Hungary-over what it meant to be Hungarian, European, and modern. Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók traces the historical process that defined the conventions of Hungarian-Gypsy style. Author Lynn M. Hooker frames her study around the 1911 celebration of Liszt's centennial. In so doing, she analyzes Liszt's problematic role as a Hungarian-born composer and leader of Hungarian art music who spent most of his life outside of Hungary and questioned whether Hungary's national music was more the creation of Hungarians or Roma (Gypsies). The themes of race and nation that emerge in the discussion of Liszt are further developed in an analysis of discourse on Hungarian national music throughout the Hungarian press in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Showing how the "discovery" of "genuine" folk music by Bartók and Kodály, often depicted as a purely "scientific" matter, responds directly to concerns raised by earlier writers about the "problem of Hungarian music," Hooker argues that the innovations of Bartók and Kodály and their circle are not so much in correcting a flawed concept of the national as in using the idea of national authenticity to open up freedom for composers to explore more stylistic options, including the exploration of modernist musical language. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók is essential reading for musicologists, musicians, and concertgoers alike.

Author : Bruno Monsaingeon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691095493

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Sviatoslav Richter by Bruno Monsaingeon Pdf

"Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. Fascinated, author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately his friendship. This book is the product of that friendship. It offers readers the sizable pleasure of lingering in the thoughts and words of one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century. Sviatoslav Richter belongs on the shelves of everyone with a classical music collection and will also appeal to lovers of autobiography and admirers of Russian musical culture." -- Back cover

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
ISBN : 9780197603901

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La Nijinska by Anonim Pdf

La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer, shedding new light on the modern history of ballet, and recuperating the memory of lost works and forgotten artists, all while revealing the sexism that still confronts women choreographers in the ballet world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : UCAL:B3418219

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Index to Record and Tape Reviews by Anonim Pdf

Author : Larry Sitsky
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781760465940

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The Compleat Busoni, Volume 1 by Larry Sitsky Pdf

Larry Sitsky, professor emeritus at The Australian National University, is an internationally known composer, pianist, scholar, and teacher. His books are fundamental reference works on subjects such as Australian piano music, the 20th-century avant-garde, the piano music of Anton Rubinstein, the early 20th-century Russian avant-garde, and the classical reproducing piano roll. The Compleat Busoni is the result of Sitsky’s lifelong focus on the composer Ferruccio Busoni. Over three volumes, Sitsky surveys Busoni’s vast output, provides an ending to the unfinished opera Dr. Faust, and presents definitive realisations of the Fantasia Contrappuntistica in two-piano and orchestral versions. New insights into Busoni’s style and aesthetics are an integral aspect of this work.

Author : Wandsworth Public Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042383690

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Catalogue of Gramophone Records by Wandsworth Public Libraries Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989-05
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : UVA:X002171656

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Schwann CD. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004295072

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Schwann Compact Disc Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eva Stachniak
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385678568

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The Chosen Maiden by Eva Stachniak Pdf

The lush, sweeping story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with fact, The Chosen Maiden plunges readers into an artistic world upended by modernity, immersing them in the experiences of the era's giants, from Anna Pavlova and Serge Diaghilev to Coco Chanel and Pablo Picasso. From their earliest days, the Nijinsky siblings appear destined for the stage. Bronia is a gifted young ballerina, but she is quickly eclipsed by her brother Vaslav. Deemed a prodigy, Vaslav Nijinsky will grow into the greatest, and most provocative, dancer of his time. To prove herself her brother's equal in the rigid world of ballet, Bronia will need to be more than extraordinary, defying society's expectations of what a female dancer can and should be. The real-life muse behind one of the most spectacular roles in dance, The Rite of Spring's Chosen Maiden, Bronia rises to the heights of modern ballet through grit, resilience and fervor. But when the First World War erupts and rebellion sparks in Russia, Bronia—caught between old and new, traditional and ground-breaking, safe and passionate—must begin her own search for what it means to be modern.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Audiocassettes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011430100

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Schwann Opus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anton Seidl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082188693

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Seidl Society Concerts by Anton Seidl Pdf

Author : Michael S. Barrett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476632759

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Foreign Language Films and the Oscar by Michael S. Barrett Pdf

The Academy Awards—that yearly Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour and glitz of the international film industry—is highly revered yet has been minimally explored beyond the category of Best Picture. Over the last decade, more than 2,000 films have been submitted for the title of Best Foreign Language Film. Of those, 312—including Italy’s 8 1⁄2, Sweden’s Through a Glass Darkly and Mexico’s Pan’s Labyrinth, as well as Denmark’s lesser-known Harry and the Butler, Yugoslavia’s I Even Met Happy Gypsies and Nicaragua’s Alsino and the Condor—have received nominations. This guide lists each nominee—from the first-honored Shoeshine in 1948 through Iran’s second Oscar winner, The Salesman, in 2017—chronologically and includes synopses, basic facts about personnel and production qualities, and rankings among annual competitors that often differ from those of the Academy.

Author : John K. Sherman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1952-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780816658695

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Music and Maestros by John K. Sherman Pdf

Music and Maestros was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Music lovers all over the United States as well as in other countries have heard the music of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of such noted conductors as Dimitri Mitropoulos and Eugene Ormandy. Now they can enjoy the story behind those concerts, records, and radio broadcasts through this intimate history of the men and music that have made the orchestra famous. The story begins with the lively musical activities of a frontier town, the antecedents of the symphony orchestra that took shape at the turn of the century. From the early years of the organization under the batons of Emil Oberhoffer and Henri Verbrugghen, the chronicle rises to the period of the great contemporaries, Ormandy, Mitropoulos, and Antal Dorati. There is a wealth of detail on the career of Mitropoulos, the renowned New York Philharmonic conductor who reached his present stature during his leadership of the Minneapolis orchestra.The extensive concert tours that have earned for the Minneapolis symphony the nickname of "orchestra on wheels" are recalled in anecdotes that will evoke many a chuckle and plenty of amazement. Accounts of early recording sessions offer fascinating sidelights on this aspect of musical history. A complete list of the works performed by the orchestra during the past fifty years provides a significant record of changing trends in musical tastes. A roster of al the players who have been members of the orchestra is given, and the reference section also includes a complete list of out-of-town engagements and a list of the orchestra's recordings which are available.

Author : Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015024175302

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Dictionary Catalog of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound by Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound Pdf