Author: Barry Smith
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198166061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic of twentieth-century British composers. He was by turns a sensitive songwriter of remarkable genius, a witty and caustic critic, a rare scholar of early music, and a friend of some of the leading figures of the day--including William Walton, Jacob Epstein, and D. H. Lawrence. This is a complete account of this mercurial musician. Barry Smith uses new and often controversial material in telling his real, and frequently outrageous story. Here is the man, the composer, writer, and scholar, from his dangerous involvement in the occult to his long lasting loves and hates--all of which ended by his own hand in a gas-filled London flat on a cold winter's morning in 1930.
Peter Warlock
Author: Barry Smith
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198166061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic of twentieth-century British composers. He was by turns a sensitive songwriter of remarkable genius, a witty and caustic critic, a rare scholar of early music, and a friend of some of the leading figures of the day--including William Walton, Jacob Epstein, and D. H. Lawrence. This is a complete account of this mercurial musician. Barry Smith uses new and often controversial material in telling his real, and frequently outrageous story. Here is the man, the composer, writer, and scholar, from his dangerous involvement in the occult to his long lasting loves and hates--all of which ended by his own hand in a gas-filled London flat on a cold winter's morning in 1930.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198166061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic of twentieth-century British composers. He was by turns a sensitive songwriter of remarkable genius, a witty and caustic critic, a rare scholar of early music, and a friend of some of the leading figures of the day--including William Walton, Jacob Epstein, and D. H. Lawrence. This is a complete account of this mercurial musician. Barry Smith uses new and often controversial material in telling his real, and frequently outrageous story. Here is the man, the composer, writer, and scholar, from his dangerous involvement in the occult to his long lasting loves and hates--all of which ended by his own hand in a gas-filled London flat on a cold winter's morning in 1930.
Dark Magic
Author: James Swain
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765367914
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765367914
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Kaikhosru Sorabji's Letters to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock)
Author: Brian Inglis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351068784
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351068784
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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.
Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock
Author: Frederick Delius
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198167068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198167068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
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.
Peter Warlock
Author: Barry Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
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.
Coda in Black
Author: B. C. Stone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781491085486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781491085486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Musician and Murderer
Author: Cecil Gray
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited etc. 1926.
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited etc. 1926.
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Warlock
Author: Oakley Hall
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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
The Warlock's Book
Author: Peter Haining
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Merry-go-down
Author: Peter Warlock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description