Author: Harold Earle JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911772647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
First Performances in America to 1900
Author: Harold Earle JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911772647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
First Performances in America to 1900
Author: Harold Earle JohnsonPublisher: Detroit : Published for the College Music Society by Information Coordinators
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
An American Musical Dynasty
Author: Paul LarsonPublisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"For the span of one hundred years, Peter, Theodore, and J. Fred. Wolle formed an American musical dynasty. While each musician was rooted in the Moravian musical tradition, particularly through the innovations of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, their influence extended beyond the Moravian Church and became a major force in Bach performance in America. The early characterization of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as the American Bayreuth remains an apt one to this day." "The musical tradition that shaped these musicians was centered in Nazareth (1740) and Bethlehem (1742), the first Moravian communities founded in Pennsylvania. In addition to schools for young children, the Moravians established academies for young men in Nazareth and for young women in Bethlehem. These academies became well known for their excellence. Music was central in both schools, and each had faculties of fine musicians trained in Europe who transplanted European musical excellence to American soil. As a result, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, each academy provided a music education unsurpassed in America. In addition, each institution was closely attached to the vital music-making that pervaded all Moravian communities. Thus, this deep reverence for music in Nazareth and Bethlehem nourished and trained many fine musicians. For generations members of the same families sang, played musical instruments, and composed sacred music together." "This book is also about Moravian cultural patterns that produced so many musically productive men, women, and children who still shape life in the city of Bethlehem."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918
Author: Michael SafflePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135598010
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its own unique social and cultural institutions.
Some First Performances in America
Author: Harold Earle JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Mechanical Smile
Author: Caroline EvansPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300189537
Category : Fashion shows
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A superlative study of the roots of the modern fashion show In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. The Mechanical Smile traces the history of the earliest fashion shows in France and the United States from their origins in the 1880s to 1929, situating them in the context of modernism and the rationalization of the body. Fashion shows came into being concurrently with film, and this book explores the connections between fashion and early cinema, which arguably functioned as what Walter Benjamin called "new velocities"--forces that altered the rhythms of modern life. Using significant new archival evidence, The Mechanical Smile shows how so-called "mannequin parades" employed the visual language of modernism to translate business and management methods into visual seduction. Caroline Evans, a leading fashion historian, argues for an expanded definition of modernism as both gestural and performative, drawing on literary and performance theory rather than relying on art and design history. The fashion show, Evans posits, is a singular nodal point where the disparate histories of commerce, modernism, gender, and the body converge.
The Cambridge History of American Literature
Author: Plays of the Present
Author: John Bouvé ClappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Programme
Author: Boston Symphony OrchestraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1674
Book Description
American History and Encyclopedia of Music
Author: William Lines HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description