Author: Anna Cabot Lowell Waterston
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385343992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Adelaide Phillipps. A Record
Author: Anna Cabot Lowell Waterston
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385343992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385343992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Kate Field
Author: Lilian Whiting
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Musical Record and Review
Author: Dexter Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Opera for the People
Author: Katherine K. Preston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199371660
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199371660
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.
Dwight's Journal of Music
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years
Author: Henry James
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what he regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge. The family letters (the initial inspiration for this autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the early career of William James at Harvard and in Germany, also reveal Henry James Sr.’s views on the intellectual, philosophical, and social issues of the time. Henry Jr., aspiring to be "just literary," acknowledges his indebtedness to the widely cultured artist John La Farge, whose friendship he enjoyed during adolescence. The Civil War is recorded through the letters of his younger brother, Wilky, while Henry recalls a Whitmanesque longing for the Union soldiers he met and talked to. The death of a beloved cousin, Mary Temple, who would become the inspiration for some of his greatest fictional heroines, is documented through the passionate, questioning letters she wrote in her final year of life. In The Middle Years James, newly resident in London, gives his impressions of some of the literary "lions" of the time, most notably George Eliot and Tennyson. This first fully annotated critical edition of Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years both offers the reader extensive support in appreciating the demands of James’s late prose and illuminates the context in which one of literature’s most influential figures developed a characteristic voice.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what he regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge. The family letters (the initial inspiration for this autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the early career of William James at Harvard and in Germany, also reveal Henry James Sr.’s views on the intellectual, philosophical, and social issues of the time. Henry Jr., aspiring to be "just literary," acknowledges his indebtedness to the widely cultured artist John La Farge, whose friendship he enjoyed during adolescence. The Civil War is recorded through the letters of his younger brother, Wilky, while Henry recalls a Whitmanesque longing for the Union soldiers he met and talked to. The death of a beloved cousin, Mary Temple, who would become the inspiration for some of his greatest fictional heroines, is documented through the passionate, questioning letters she wrote in her final year of life. In The Middle Years James, newly resident in London, gives his impressions of some of the literary "lions" of the time, most notably George Eliot and Tennyson. This first fully annotated critical edition of Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years both offers the reader extensive support in appreciating the demands of James’s late prose and illuminates the context in which one of literature’s most influential figures developed a characteristic voice.
The Musical Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography: Lodge-Pickens
Author: James Grant Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description