Author: James GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Dick Rodney, Or, The Adventures of an Eton Boy
Author: James GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician
Author: Paul HarrisPublisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857125885
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in the enormous diversity of his activities, is arguably the most complete musician of all time. Not only does he have a remarkable 300 commissioned concert works to his credit, which have established him among the leading British twentieth-century composers, yet at the same time, with supreme success, he has also contrived to lead several completely different musical lives. For some, he is the ultimate exponent of 'crossover', as epitomised in his remarkable Concerto for Stan Getz and concert works for Cleo Laine. Others remember him as a concert pianist with a special enthusiasm for pioneering contemporary music, his partnerships with Susan Bradshaw, Jane Manning and Barry Tuckwell being particularly notable. Meanwhile, he also has over 70 film and television scores to his credit, the many classic titles ranging from Murder on the Orient Express and Far From the Madding Crowd to Equus and Four Weddings and a Funeral. For cabaret and jazz club devotees, he is, again, something completely different: one of the finest and most knowledgeable of all exponents of the Great American Songbook, a much-in-demand singer and accompanist over the past thirty-five years, and, as such, the stage partner of some of the most glamorous performers in the business. This, then, is a book about a uniquely gifted musician. It is also a study of a most engaging personality and a fascinatingly complex human being. Anthony Meredith, whose two previous collaborations with co-researcher Paul Harris were the highly praised biographies of Malcolm Arnold and Malcolm Williamson, has been a widely published writer over the past twenty-five years. He is a member of MCC, a Friend of Covent Garden and Northern Ballet. His co-researcher, Paul Harris, is a leading music educationalist, well-known for his seminars, workshops and masterclasses, with over 500 books to his name.
Dick
Author: Godfrey Fox BradbyRodney, the Overseer
Author: Harry CastlemonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734061458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Rodney, the Overseer by Harry Castlemon
Dick Rodney; Or, The Adventures of an Eton Boy
Author: James GrantPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387095309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Later Operetta 2
Author: Orly Leah KrasnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113555370X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The most successful American-born composer of operetta at the end of the nineteenth century was Reginald de Koven. The work reprinted in this volume, The Highwayman, is arguably his best work, although he is better known for the earlier Robin Hoodwixh its evergreen wedding ballad "Oh Promise Me." (Robin Hood is available as a reprint in the 1990 volume American Opera and Music for the Stage, in the G.K. Hall series Three Centuries of American Music.) The editor of this volume, Orly Leah Krasner, is a leading scholar of de Koven’s music. She teaches at the City University of New York, and her Ph.D. dissertation, "Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) and American Comic Opera at the Turn of the Century," is also from that university. Her introduction places the work in the tenor of contemporary critical reaction, and lists the sources available for further study. The Highwayman is one of the few complete operettas of its era for which we are fortunate enough to have original performing materials in the composer’s own hand. As the penultimate volume (number 15) in this series, de Koven’s work of 1897 contrasts with two works of the previous year, Walter Damrosch’s opera The Scarlet Letter (volume 16) and John Philip Sousa’s operetta El Capitan (volume 14).
The Field Dog Stud Book
Author: Finding List
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: George Flavel DanforthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description