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Author: Barry Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the most fascinating and most enigmatic of the 20th centuries composers, this tells of a brilliant, yet unhappy young man. It tells of his dangerous involvement in the occult and its disturbing and long-lasting effects, of his passionate loves and hates, of dramas of intrigue and mystery, all of which ended in a gas-filled flat in 1930.
Author: Brian Inglis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-05
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1351068784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are reflected in the unique corpus of letters from Anglo-Parsi composer-critic Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (1894-1930): a fascinating primary source for the period 1913-1922 available in a complete scholarly edition for the first time. The volume also provides a new contextual, critical and interpretative framework, incorporating a myriad of perspectives: identities, social geographies, style construction, and mutual interests and influences. Pertinent period documents, including evidence of Heseltine’s reactions, enhance the sense of narrative and expand on aesthetic discussions. Through the letters’ entertaining and perceptive lens, Sorabji’s early life and compositions are vividly illuminated and Heseltine’s own intriguing life and work recontextualised. What emerges takes us beyond tropes of otherness and eccentricity to reveal a persona and a narrative with great relevance to modern-day debates on canonicity and identity, especially the nexus of ethnicity, queer identities and Western art music. Scholars, performers and admirers of early twentieth-century music in Britain, and beyond, will find this a valuable addition to the literature. The book will appeal to those studying or interested in early musical modernism and its reception; cultural life in London around and after the First World War; music, nationality and race; Commonwealth studies; and music and sexuality.
Author: James Swain
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780765367914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While hiding his membership in an underground group of psychics who predict and prevent crimes, magician Peter Warlock foresees an act of violence targeting the city and finds his efforts thwarted by a psychic cult.
Author: Frederick Delius
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780198167068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In their often frank writing, the characters and interaction of the two men is highlighted and in their informal and often gossipy way, they illuminate the musical life and many personalities of the time."--Jacket.
Author: B. C. Stone
Publisher:
Published: 2013-08-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781491085486
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1949. The smell of orange groves and honeysuckle. The good guys are (mostly) good and the bad guys easy to recognize -or are they? An unlikely hero, who has come in from the cold, literally, now finds himself enmeshed in a very personal Cold War heart of darkness.
Author: Cecil Gray
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited etc. 1926.
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Newman
Publisher: Abraxas Editions
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781898343110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE TREGERTHEN HORROR: Aleister Crowley, D. H. Lawrence & Peter Warlock Involving murder, mayhem, espionage, sexual scandal and the Beast 666, this bizarre and tragic investigation into the death of Ka Cox at a lonely, haunted cottage in Zennor is one of the strangest stories to have ever come out of Cornwall and took many years of scrupulous research on the part of the author. Involving a large and larger-than-life cast of characters, including the 'handsomest young man in England', Rupert Brooke, the climber George Mallory, the mad, babbling psychotherapist, Meredith Starr, and the rip-roaring composer, Peter Warlock, the narrative unwinds a tangled tale that enlists the embattled remnants of the Bloomsbury Group, the decadent acolytes of Fitzrovia, a young woman's involvement with a notorious magician, occult orgies in the grounds of a great house climaxing in a flourish of grand guignol when Bob Fabian, ace sleuth of Scotland Yard, joins the ensemble as he seeks to find the perpetrator of the horrific 'witchcraft murder' of Lower Quinton.
Author: Oakley Hall
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2014-08-05
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1590178238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction. "Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named Blaisdell who . . . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . . . Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with—the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power—the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall." —Thomas Pynchon
