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Author: Melinda Bargreen Publisher: ISBN: 9780615998701 Category : Opera Languages : en Pages : 176
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This beautiful book offers a treasure trove of rare photos plus the vivid narration of Melinda Bargreen, who covered Seattle Opera for The Seattle Times for close to 40 of the company's 50 years. Bargreen's compelling chronicle begins with the pioneering days of opera in Seattle and covers the power struggles at Seattle Opera's inception; details founding General Director Glynn Ross's friendships with superstars Joan Sutherland and Beverly Sills, and his pie-in-the-sky idea of presenting Wagner's Ring in Seattle; follows Speight Jenkins from his first Seattle appearance (as a speaker on the Ring) to the triumph of operatic glasnost he engineered when Seattle Opera gave War and Peace for the 1990 Goodwill Games, to the creation of McCaw Hall. The book features a "Who's Who" of more than 50 key players including Marion Oliver McCaw, Henry Holt, Archie Drake, Perry Lorenzo, Vinson Cole, Jane Eaglen, Greer Grimsley, and many others.
Author: Melinda Bargreen Publisher: ISBN: 9780615998701 Category : Opera Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
This beautiful book offers a treasure trove of rare photos plus the vivid narration of Melinda Bargreen, who covered Seattle Opera for The Seattle Times for close to 40 of the company's 50 years. Bargreen's compelling chronicle begins with the pioneering days of opera in Seattle and covers the power struggles at Seattle Opera's inception; details founding General Director Glynn Ross's friendships with superstars Joan Sutherland and Beverly Sills, and his pie-in-the-sky idea of presenting Wagner's Ring in Seattle; follows Speight Jenkins from his first Seattle appearance (as a speaker on the Ring) to the triumph of operatic glasnost he engineered when Seattle Opera gave War and Peace for the 1990 Goodwill Games, to the creation of McCaw Hall. The book features a "Who's Who" of more than 50 key players including Marion Oliver McCaw, Henry Holt, Archie Drake, Perry Lorenzo, Vinson Cole, Jane Eaglen, Greer Grimsley, and many others.
Author: Philip Gossett Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226304884 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 699
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Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas. Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design. Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it—in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure.
Author: Alice Hoffman Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476799261 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate. Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion—from dark suffering to true happiness—a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls—including an angel who’s been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night. Here is a character you will fall in love with, so believable and real and endearing, that she captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding yourself at last. For anyone who’s ever been a hurt teenager, for every mother of a daughter who has lost her way, Faithful is a roadmap. Alice Hoffman’s “trademark alchemy” (USA TODAY) and her ability to write about the “delicate balance between the everyday world and the extraordinary” (WBUR) make this an unforgettable story. With beautifully crafted prose, Alice Hoffman spins hope from heartbreak in this profoundly moving novel.
Author: Demar Irvine Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9781574670240 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 424
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(Amadeus). This superbly detailed biography examines the life of Jules Massenet (1842-1912), who was at the heart of Parisian musical life during a period of extraordinary artistic vitality.
Author: Mike Sedam, Barbara Sleeper Publisher: ISBN: 9781610604826 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 104
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Whether you're a life-long resident of Seattle, a recent transplant, a visitor, or an armchair traveler, you'll cherish this tribute to the Emerald City. Covering everything from the people to the mountains and parks, from the boat locks to the skyscrapers, Our Seattle combines readable text and first-rate photos to capture the spirit of this remarkable area and its many contributions to American culture. Covering not only Seattle but the region around the city, including Puget Sound, the North Cascades, Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, and the Olympic Peninsula, this book showcases the unique and magnificent scenery of the Pacific Northwest. For nearly thirty years, Seattle-based photographer Mike Sedam has specialized in travel photography around the world.
Author: Bill (William) Mullins Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295804734 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 361
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Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond. Bill Mullins focuses on the acquisition and loss, after only one year, of the Seattle Pilots and documents their on-the-field exploits in lively play-by-play sections. The Pilots' underfunded ownership, led by Seattle's Dewey and Max Soriano and William Daley of Cleveland, struggled to make the team a success. They were savvy baseball men, but they made mistakes and wrangled with the city. By the end of the first season, the team was in bankruptcy. The Pilots were sold to a contingent from Milwaukee led by Bud Selig, who moved the franchise to Wisconsin and rechristened the team the Brewers. Becoming Big League describes the character of Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s, explains how the operation of a major league baseball franchise fits into the life of a city, charts Seattle's long history of fraught stadium politics, and examines the business of baseball. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwhl5sLoQs&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=1&feature=plcp
Author: Melinda Bargreen
Author: Melinda Bargreen
Author: Philip Gossett
Author: Alice Hoffman
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Author: Demar Irvine
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Author: Bill (William) Mullins
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