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15 produkter
Disciple
A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age
Häftad, 2026
246 kr
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Cloaked in mystery, Anton Seidl materialized in the New World as Wagner's personal emissary. A sorcerer, he commanded musical New York and toured widely, everywhere received with awed deference. In Brooklyn, Laura Langford's Seidl Society presented summertime Seidl concerts on Coney Island fourteen …
Artists in Exile: How Refugees from the Twentieth Century War and Revolu tion Transformed the American Performing Arts
How Refugees from the Twentieth Century War and Revolu tion Transformed the American Performing Arts
Häftad, 2009
177 kr
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Artists in Exile
How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts
E-bok, 2009
113 kr
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During the first half of the twentieth century—decades of war and revolution in Europe—an "intellectual migration" relocated thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States, including some of Europe''s supreme performing artists, filmmakers, playwrights, and choreographers. For them, America …
Propaganda of Freedom
JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War
Inbunden, 2023
411 kr
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The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence--to say …
"On My Way"
The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess
Inbunden, 2013
277 kr
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"Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he’s determined to find her. When his request is met with astonishment—New York is a great distance from South Carolina’s Catfish Row—Porgy remains undaunted. …
Classical Music in America
A History
Häftad, 2007
470 kr
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“An opinionated, stimulating account of how classical music failed to establish fruitful roots in America,” Classical Music in America chronicles “a cultural attitude that has produced many fine artists and striking moments—but no institutional or intellectual support to sustain them” (Kirkus …
Dvorak's Prophecy
And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Inbunden, 2021
300 kr
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In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble” school of American classical music based on the searing “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular genres known the world over, it never …
Moral Fire
Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle
Inbunden, 2012
603 kr
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Joseph Horowitz writes in "Moral Fire": "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions …
Moral Fire
Musical Portraits from America''s Fin de Siècle
E-bok, 2012
714 kr
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Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions …
Die Mahlers in New York
E-bok, 2024
354 kr
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»Gustav Mahler war für Amerika nicht bestimmt. Fernab seines gewohnten Ambientes wirft Mahlers holprige New Yorker Karriere – an der Metropolitan Opera und bei den New Yorker Philharmonikern (1907–1911) – ein überdeutliches Schlaglicht auf seine Eigenheiten. Über den Menschen Mahler lernt man in …
