Author: University of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: University of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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History of Virginia
Author: Historical Outlook
Author: The Ballad of John Latouche
Author: Howard PollackPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190458305
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and librettist. The wit and skill of his lyrics elicited comparisons with the likes of Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, and Cole Porter, but he had too, noted Stephen Sondheim, "a large vision of what musical theater could be," and he proved especially venturesome in helping to develop a lyric theater that innovatively combined music, word, dance, and costume and set design. Many of his pieces, even if not commonly known today, remain high points in the history of American musical theater. "A great American genius" in the words of Duke Ellington, Latouche initially came to wide public attention in his early twenties with his cantata for soloist and chorus, Ballad for Americans (1939), with music by Earl Robinson-a work that swept the nation during the Second World War. Other milestones in his career included the all-black musical fable, Cabin in the Sky (1940), with Vernon Duke; an interracial updating of John Gay's classic, The Beggar's Opera, as Beggar's Holiday (1946), with Duke Ellington; two acclaimed Broadway operas with Jerome Moross: Ballet Ballads (1948) and The Golden Apple (1954); one of the most enduring operas in the American canon, The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956), with Douglas Moore; and the operetta Candide (1956), with Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman. Extremely versatile, he also wrote cabaret songs, participated in documentary and avant-garde film, translated poetry, adapted plays, and much else. Meanwhile, as one of Manhattan's most celebrated raconteurs and hosts, he developed a wide range of friends in the arts, including, to name only a few, Paul and Jane Bowles (whom he introduced to each other), Yul Brynner, John Cage, Jack Kerouac, Frederick Kiesler, Carson McCullers, Frank O'Hara, Dawn Powell, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams-a dazzling constellation of diverse artists working in sundry fields, all attracted to Latouche's brilliance and joie de vivre, not to mention his support for their work. This book draws widely on archival collections both at home and abroad, including Latouche's diaries and the papers of Bernstein, Ellington, Moore, Moross, and many others, to tell for the first time, the story of this fascinating man and his work.
Virginia Journal of Education
Author: Fiftieth anniversary yearbook and list of active members of the National Educational Association
Author: National Education Association of the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Yearbook and List of Active Members of the National Education Association
Author: National Education Association of the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Harvard University Catalogue
Author: Harvard UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Catalog of the Officers and Students of the University in Cambridge
Author: Harvard UniversityN.E.A. Bulletin
Author: National Education Association of the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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