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Author : Amy Martin
Publisher : McSweeneys Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1936365391
When a young girl gets lost in a big city, she makes her way home by following the rich and vibrant music of the streets.
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763680541
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and—eventually—one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens—the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power—and layered meaning—of music in beleaguered lives. Symphony for the City of the Dead is a masterwork thrillingly told and impeccably researched by National Book Award–winning author M. T. Anderson.
Author : Steven Jacobs,Eva Hielscher,Anthony Kinik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317215578
The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover, interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented, oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern life, and they organized their urban-industrial images through rhythmic and associative montage that evoke musical structures. In this comprehensive volume, contributors consider the full 80 film corpus, from Manhatta and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations.
Author : National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015014548674
Reports for 1980- include also the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
Author : Janna Jones
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781609177294
Marshall Fredericks’s Detroit sculptures capture the spirit of the Motor City and its dramatic transformation from the 1950s to the present day. In this book, Janna Jones analyzes eight of these enormous works of public art, situating them and their structures in metro Detroit’s distinctive midcentury milieu and bringing much-needed critical attention to this sculptor’s oeuvre. Sadly, some of these artworks have suffered along with the city as it shrank from its postwar zenith. Both the buildings and the sculptures erected for them deserve to be rescued from neglect, and then maintained and preserved for the future.
Author : Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317040873
The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States. Likewise, Australian composers produced a steady stream of symphonies throughout the period from Federation (1901) through to the end of the 1950s. Stylistically, these works ranged from essays in late nineteenth-century romanticism, twentieth-century nationalism, neo-classicism and near-atonality. Australian symphonies were most prolific during the 1950s, with 36 local entries in the 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Symphony competition. This extensive repertoire was overshadowed by the emergence of a new generation of composers and critics during the 1960s who tended to regard older Australian music as old-fashioned and derivative. The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 is the first study of this neglected genre and has four aims: firstly, to show the development of symphonic composition in Australia from Federation to 1960; secondly, to highlight the achievement of the main composers who wrote symphonies; thirdly, to advocate the restoration and revival of this repertory; and, lastly, to take a step towards a recasting of the narrative of Australian concert music from Federation to the present. In particular, symphonies by Marshall-Hall, Hart, Bainton, Hughes, Le Gallienne and Morgan emerge as works of particular note.
Author : Laurie Lanzen Harris,Paul Ganson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780814340622
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Grace, Grit, and Glory details the history of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as seen through the prism of the city it has called home for nearly 130 years. Now one of America’s finest orchestras, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra began in 1887 as a rather small ensemble of around thirty-five players in a city that was just emerging as an industrial powerhouse. Since then, both the city and its orchestra have known great success in musical artistry for the symphony and economic influence for the city. They have each faced crises as well—financial, social, and cultural—that have forced the DSO into closure three times, and the city to the brink of dissolution. Yet somehow, in the face of adversity, the DSO stands strong today, a beacon of perseverance and rebirth in a city of second chances. This is the first history of the DSO to document the orchestra from its earliest incarnation in the late nineteenth century to its current status as one of the top orchestras in the country. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra tells the story of the organization—the musicians, the musical directors, the boards, and the management—as they strove for musical excellence, and the consistent funding and leadership to achieve it in the changing economic and cultural landscape of Detroit. Author Laurie Lanzen Harris, with Paul Ganson, explores the cycles of glory, collapse, and renewal of the orchestra in light of the city’s own dynamic economic, demographic, and cultural changes. Any reader with an interest in Detroit history or the history of American symphony orchestras should have this book on his or her shelf.
Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593704233
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown makes his picture book debut with this mindful, humorous, musical, and uniquely entertaining book! The author will be donating all US royalties due to him to support music education for children worldwide, through the New Hampshire Charitable foundation. Travel through the trees and across the seas with Maestro Mouse and his musical friends! Young readers will meet a big blue whale and speedy cheetahs, tiny beetles and graceful swans. Each has a special secret to share. Along the way, you might spot the surprises Maestro Mouse has left for you- a hiding buzzy bee, jumbled letters that spell out clues, and even a coded message to solve! Children and adults can enjoy this timeless picture book as a traditional read-along, or can choose to listen to original musical compositions as they read--one for each animal--with a free interactive smartphone app, which uses augmented reality to play the appropriate song for each page when a phone's camera is held over it.
Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : School music
ISBN : UOM:39015009457592
An analysis of the report The organization, administration, and presentation of symphony orchestra youth concert activities for music educational purposes in selected cities, by T.H. Hill and H.M. Thompson, published 1968.
Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521884983
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.
Author : Larry Rothe
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781452110240
In Music for a City, Music for the World, Larry Rothe shares how the San Francisco Bay Area's love of music, rooted in the Gold Rush, gave birth to a Grammy-winning and internationally acclaimed orchestra. Released in time for the San Francisco Symphony's celebration of its 100th anniversary, this definitive history replete with hundreds of archival photos and images gives readers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of the world's foremost orchestras and, in so doing, illuminates the cultural life of a city.
Author : Neil Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429789441
First published in 1998, this volume is the first book to focus on the American symphony. Neil Butterworth surveys the development of the symphony in the United States from early European influences in the last century to the present day, and asks why American composers have shown such allegiance to a musical form which their European contemporaries appear to have discarded. An overview of the growth of musical societies in America during the eighteenth century and the establishment of the first professional orchestras during the early part of the nineteenth century is followed by chronological analyses of the works of those composers who have played important parts in the progress of symphony in the United States, from Charles Ives, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, to contemporary figures such as William Bolcom and John Harbison. Complete with a comprehensive catalogue of symphonies and an extensive discography, this book is an indispensable reference work.
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763629502
When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces. 75,000 first printing.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119519812
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
ISBN : LOC:00186342380