A Thousand and One Nights of Opera
Author: Frederick Herman Martens
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 508
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 508
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Published: 1935
Total Pages: 487
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Barth
Publisher: American Literature
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781564789181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957. It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide. Having picked up some sense of the French Existentialist writers from the postwar Zeitgeist, this novel questions life's value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man.
Author: Jason Grote
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 0573663882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First produced in January 2007 at The Denver Center Theater, Denver, Colorado.
Author: Ibrahim Akel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-04-28
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9004429034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights in all of their static and dynamic complexity. They follow the trajectory of the Nights’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science.
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780300091052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.
Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1408826046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 888
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Author: Mary Zimmerman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005-02-15
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0810120941
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