Author: Stephen Fry
Publisher: Boxtree
ISBN: 9780752225340
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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'Hello, I'm Stephen the Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on The Incomplete and Utter History of Classic Music... putting some unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.' In his Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music, Stephen Fry presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it. Along this musical journey he casually throws in references to pretty much whatever takes his fancy, from the Mongol invasion of Russia and Mr Khan (Genghis to his Friends), the founding of the MCC, the Black Death (which once again became the new black in England) to the heady revolutionary atmosphere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the deep doo-doo that Louis XVI got into (or 'du-du' as the French would say). It's all here - Ambrose and early-English plainsong, Bach, Mozart (beloved of mobile phones everywhere), Beethoven, Debussy, Wagner (the old romantic), right up to the present day. Entertaining and brilliantly written, this is a pretty reckless romp of a history through classical music and much much more.
Author: Stephen Fry
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141039809
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 499
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Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director, and also a bestselling author. He has been in show business for over 30 years and now regularly appears on our screens as the host of the popular panel game 'QI'. This title is the second part of Stephen's autobiography.
Author: Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Author: Thomas Marshall Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Historic Families of Kentucky is a basic history of the state, with considerable emphasis on the accomplishments of the pioneer families, including their public service in the nation's struggle for independence and existence. The objective of the book is to trace from their origin in this country a number of Kentucky families of Scotch-Irish extraction whose ancestors immigrated to America in the early 18th century and became pioneers of the Valley of Virginia. Descendants of these families of the Valley were among the early pioneers of Kentucky.
Author: Flavell Edmunds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Author: Ricky Jay
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374525705
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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A popular magician offers a guide to the most exotic entertainers in the history of showbusiness--from the amazing feats of handicapped individuals to the unusual talents of trained animals
Author: John Latimer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Author: William Owen Pughe
Publisher:
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Category : Welsh language
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Author: Bitmap Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838019143
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Reyner Banham
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520923200
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings. The volume, which includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus as well as explorations of contemporary architecture by Frank Gehry, James Stirling, and Norman Foster, conveys the full range of Banham's belief in industrial and technological development as the motor of architectural evolution. Banham's interests and passions ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. In brilliant analyses of automobile styling, mobile homes, science fiction films, and the American predilection for gadgets, he anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary cultural studies. Los Angeles, the city that Banham commemorated in a book and a film, receives extensive attention in essays on the Santa Monica Pier, the Getty Museum, Forest Lawn cemetery, and the ubiquitous freeway system. Eminently readable, provocative, and entertaining, this book is certain to consolidate Banham's reputation among architects and students of contemporary culture. For those acquainted with his writing, it offers welcome surprises as well as familiar delights. For those encountering Banham for the first time, it comprises the perfect introduction.
