Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : City planning, American
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington
Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning, American
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Pennsylvania Avenue in the City of Washington
Author: Pennsylvania Avenue
Author: Christopher P. CavasPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666628
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The Grand Avenue, America's Main Street, a National Embarrassment--Pennsylvania Avenue has been known by these names and more since it was laid out across farmland in the 1790s. From the beginning, the one-mile stretch between the Capitol building and the White House was intended to be a symbolic link between the key branches of government, but over more than two centuries, it has witnessed grandeur and squalor, national pride and neglect, and crowds full of celebration and rage. While the pillars of government at either end have stood watch, the avenue has seen buildings, institutions, and neighborhoods rise, prosper, decay, and fall. A grand marketplace, a major train station, dozens of hotels and restaurants--all thrived, yet only a handful remain. Once a teeming city thoroughfare, then a bland, nearly lifeless area dominated by hulking federal buildings, the avenue today is regaining some of the vitality that marked its earlier years even as it remains one of the nation's best-known streets.
The Streets of the World
Author: George Augustus SalaPublisher:
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC
Author: Daniel AbrahamPublisher: Eastman Studies in Music
ISBN: 1580469736
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Composer, conductor, activist, and icon of twentieth-century America, Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) had a rich association with Washington, DC. Although he never lived there, the U.S. capital was the site of some of the most important moments in his life and work, as he engaged with the nation's struggles and triumphs. By examining Bernstein through the lens of DC, this book offers new insights into his life and music from the 1940s through the 1980s, including his role in building DC's artistic landscape, his political-diplomatic aims, his works that received premieres and other early performances in DC, and his relationships with the nation's liberal and conservative political elites. The collection also contributes new perspectives on twentieth-century American history, government, and culture, helping to elucidate the political function of music in American democracy. The essays in Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC, all newly written by leading authorities, situate this important American cultural figure in the seat of United States government. The result is a fresh new angle on Leonard Bernstein, American politics, and American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Daniel Abraham is Professor of Music at American University, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University, and Andrew H. Weaver is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America.
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
Author: At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Author: Crystal WirthPublisher:
ISBN: 9780439351089
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Raleigh, Pennsylvania Avenue and Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C.
Author: Oregon Blue Book
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Avenue Hotel, Washington
Author: Laura J. RohrbachPublisher:
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Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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