Author: Michael H. Kater
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873924
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Both a narrative of Lehmann's life and an analysis of the artist and society.
Never Sang for Hitler
Author: Michael H. Kater
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873924
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Both a narrative of Lehmann's life and an analysis of the artist and society.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873924
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Both a narrative of Lehmann's life and an analysis of the artist and society.
Fifty-five Years in Five Acts
Author: Astrid Varnay
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
One of the world's greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
One of the world's greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades.
The Grove Book of Opera Singers
Author: Laura Williams Macy
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195337654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Covering over 1500 singers from the birth of opera to the present day, this marvelous volume will be an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas. The most comprehensive guide to opera singers ever produced, this volume offers an alphabetically arranged collection of authoritative biographies that range from Marion Anderson (the first African American to perform at the Met) to Benedict Zak (the classical tenor and close friend and colleague of Mozart). Readers will find fascinating articles on such opera stars as Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso, Ezio Pinza and Fyodor Chaliapin, Lotte Lehmann and Jenny Lind, Lily Pons and Luciano Pavarotti. The profiles offer basic information such as birth date, vocal style, first debut, most memorable roles, and much more. But these articles often go well beyond basic biographical information to offer colorful portraits of the singer's personality and vocal style, plus astute evaluations of their place in operatic history and many other intriguing observations. Many entries also include suggestions for further reading, so that anyone interested in a particular performer can explore their life and career in more depth. In addition, there are indexes of singers by voice type and by opera role premiers. The articles are mostly drawn from the acclaimed Grove Music Online and have been fully revised, and the book is further supplemented by more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers. A superb new guide from the first name in opera reference, The Grove Book of Opera Singers is a lively and authoritative work, beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white pictures. It is an essential volume--and the perfect gift--for opera lovers everywhere.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195337654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Covering over 1500 singers from the birth of opera to the present day, this marvelous volume will be an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas. The most comprehensive guide to opera singers ever produced, this volume offers an alphabetically arranged collection of authoritative biographies that range from Marion Anderson (the first African American to perform at the Met) to Benedict Zak (the classical tenor and close friend and colleague of Mozart). Readers will find fascinating articles on such opera stars as Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso, Ezio Pinza and Fyodor Chaliapin, Lotte Lehmann and Jenny Lind, Lily Pons and Luciano Pavarotti. The profiles offer basic information such as birth date, vocal style, first debut, most memorable roles, and much more. But these articles often go well beyond basic biographical information to offer colorful portraits of the singer's personality and vocal style, plus astute evaluations of their place in operatic history and many other intriguing observations. Many entries also include suggestions for further reading, so that anyone interested in a particular performer can explore their life and career in more depth. In addition, there are indexes of singers by voice type and by opera role premiers. The articles are mostly drawn from the acclaimed Grove Music Online and have been fully revised, and the book is further supplemented by more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers. A superb new guide from the first name in opera reference, The Grove Book of Opera Singers is a lively and authoritative work, beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white pictures. It is an essential volume--and the perfect gift--for opera lovers everywhere.
How to Sing
Author: Lilli Lehmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singing
Languages : eu
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singing
Languages : eu
Pages : 306
Book Description
Richard Hageman
Author: Nico de Villiers
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781433154737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Richard Hageman: From Holland to Hollywood is the first critical biography to reconstruct Hageman's colorful life while recreating the cultural milieu in which he flourished: opera in America during the first half of the twentieth century and film scoring in Hollywood in the heyday of the studio system.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781433154737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Richard Hageman: From Holland to Hollywood is the first critical biography to reconstruct Hageman's colorful life while recreating the cultural milieu in which he flourished: opera in America during the first half of the twentieth century and film scoring in Hollywood in the heyday of the studio system.
Forbidden Music
Author: Michael Haas
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154313
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154313
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div
Eighteen Song Cycles
Author: Lotte Lehmann
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Marilyn Horne
Author: Marilyn Horne
Publisher: Baskerville Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781880909713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This completely rewritten autobiography has been brought up to date with new material covering the last twenty years, all new pictures, and a CD of live recordings chosen by Mme. Horne as the best to exemplify her talent.
Publisher: Baskerville Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781880909713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This completely rewritten autobiography has been brought up to date with new material covering the last twenty years, all new pictures, and a CD of live recordings chosen by Mme. Horne as the best to exemplify her talent.
Lotte Lehmann, a Life in Opera & Song
Author: Beaumont Glass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Rest Is Noise
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.