Author: William Murray
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307525066
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song. In Fortissimo, Murray follows twelve young singers in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s training program, the prestigious Opera Center for American Artists, through the 2003–2004 season. In the course of the year, these singers attend countless coaching sessions, inspiring master classes, nerve-racking auditions and grueling rehearsals—and finally perform with some of the most celebrated names (and spectacular egos) in opera, from Samuel Ramey to José Cura and Natalie Dessay. While chronicling their progress, Murray offers an insider’s look at the different aspects of the opera world that influence a young singer’s success, a world filled with temperamental maestros, ambitious directors, old-world tradition and sacred monsters. Weaving recollections of his own days training in New York, Rome and Milan in the 1950s with the personal and artistic struggles of the young singers in Chicago today, Murray lays bare the staggering ambition and relentless will required to achieve a career in the arts. As he writes, “Becoming a successful opera singer—stepping out on a huge stage to try to fill the house with your voice, to bring an audience of thirty-six hundred people to its feet—is as risky in its own peculiar way as embarking on a career as a matador. You can triumph, you can struggle to survive or you can perish from your wounds.” Fortissimo is a delicious tale of rising talents, angst and heartache and small triumphs, and the music that inspires it all.
Fortissimo
Author: William Murray
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307525066
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song. In Fortissimo, Murray follows twelve young singers in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s training program, the prestigious Opera Center for American Artists, through the 2003–2004 season. In the course of the year, these singers attend countless coaching sessions, inspiring master classes, nerve-racking auditions and grueling rehearsals—and finally perform with some of the most celebrated names (and spectacular egos) in opera, from Samuel Ramey to José Cura and Natalie Dessay. While chronicling their progress, Murray offers an insider’s look at the different aspects of the opera world that influence a young singer’s success, a world filled with temperamental maestros, ambitious directors, old-world tradition and sacred monsters. Weaving recollections of his own days training in New York, Rome and Milan in the 1950s with the personal and artistic struggles of the young singers in Chicago today, Murray lays bare the staggering ambition and relentless will required to achieve a career in the arts. As he writes, “Becoming a successful opera singer—stepping out on a huge stage to try to fill the house with your voice, to bring an audience of thirty-six hundred people to its feet—is as risky in its own peculiar way as embarking on a career as a matador. You can triumph, you can struggle to survive or you can perish from your wounds.” Fortissimo is a delicious tale of rising talents, angst and heartache and small triumphs, and the music that inspires it all.
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307525066
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song. In Fortissimo, Murray follows twelve young singers in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s training program, the prestigious Opera Center for American Artists, through the 2003–2004 season. In the course of the year, these singers attend countless coaching sessions, inspiring master classes, nerve-racking auditions and grueling rehearsals—and finally perform with some of the most celebrated names (and spectacular egos) in opera, from Samuel Ramey to José Cura and Natalie Dessay. While chronicling their progress, Murray offers an insider’s look at the different aspects of the opera world that influence a young singer’s success, a world filled with temperamental maestros, ambitious directors, old-world tradition and sacred monsters. Weaving recollections of his own days training in New York, Rome and Milan in the 1950s with the personal and artistic struggles of the young singers in Chicago today, Murray lays bare the staggering ambition and relentless will required to achieve a career in the arts. As he writes, “Becoming a successful opera singer—stepping out on a huge stage to try to fill the house with your voice, to bring an audience of thirty-six hundred people to its feet—is as risky in its own peculiar way as embarking on a career as a matador. You can triumph, you can struggle to survive or you can perish from your wounds.” Fortissimo is a delicious tale of rising talents, angst and heartache and small triumphs, and the music that inspires it all.
Fortissimo
Author: William Murray
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This insider look at what it takes to make it in the world of opera is unveiled through the lives of 12 young singers at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This insider look at what it takes to make it in the world of opera is unveiled through the lives of 12 young singers at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Fortissimo Heroi Cardinali Eminentissimo Duci Richelio Philippus Codurcus. [An address to Cardinal Richelieu, requesting him to accept the dedication to him of a translation of Ecclesiastes from the Hebrew.]
The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo - the Carloforte Trilogy, Episode 1
Author: Andrea Dow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781725571617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo is the Bam, the Zzzwap, and the Kapow for teaching children who crave action to love piano lessons. Each book in the collection turns original piano pieces into the backdrop for a thrilling comic adventure. As your children learn the music they become the driving force behind the story. Drawn into the tale, they will be keen to perfect each new piece to help the story unfold.The Carloforte Trilogy, Episode 1 is the first of three books in The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo, Series 1. The 10 piano pieces are composed for children aged nine to twelve who are working in a Level 2 method book.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781725571617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo is the Bam, the Zzzwap, and the Kapow for teaching children who crave action to love piano lessons. Each book in the collection turns original piano pieces into the backdrop for a thrilling comic adventure. As your children learn the music they become the driving force behind the story. Drawn into the tale, they will be keen to perfect each new piece to help the story unfold.The Carloforte Trilogy, Episode 1 is the first of three books in The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo, Series 1. The 10 piano pieces are composed for children aged nine to twelve who are working in a Level 2 method book.
The Fortissimo Music Society
Author: Grace Hilton Chamberlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Bravo Fortissimo Glenn Gould
Author: Helen Mesaros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
"Bravo Fortissimo Glen Gould" is an exceptionally written psychobiography of piano virtuoso Glenn Gould, the musical genius who was said to hold a magical power over his audience. His untimely death at age fifty prompted the author to conduct extensive research into Gould's life. Richly nformative, entertaining, and wonderfully thought-provoking, readers will find it to be a truly "human" sotry that uncovers Gould's life one layer at a time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
"Bravo Fortissimo Glen Gould" is an exceptionally written psychobiography of piano virtuoso Glenn Gould, the musical genius who was said to hold a magical power over his audience. His untimely death at age fifty prompted the author to conduct extensive research into Gould's life. Richly nformative, entertaining, and wonderfully thought-provoking, readers will find it to be a truly "human" sotry that uncovers Gould's life one layer at a time.
Fortissimo!
Author: Richard Brown Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Fortissimo
Author: Jonathan Harvey
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Easy Steps to the Band
Author: Maurice D Taylor
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780757991028
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A progressive course for teaching full band, any combination of band instruments, or for individual use.
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780757991028
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A progressive course for teaching full band, any combination of band instruments, or for individual use.
Hi Fi/stereo Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High fidelity sound systems
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High fidelity sound systems
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description