Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals write by Michael Hurd. This book was released on 1993. Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The English composer Rutland Boughton (1878-1960) is remembered as the composer of The Immortal Hour, the opera which enjoyed the greatest number of consecutive performances the world has ever known. But his contribution to modern music goes beyond this famous piece. In 1914 he established his own Beyreuth at Glastonbury where, against all odds, he ran a series of increasingly ambitious festivals until, in 1927, he allowed his socialist principles to undermine everything he had achieved. His unconventional views on life and marriage earned him notoriety in his lifetime and made him one of England's most colorful and courageous composers. Michael Hurd has radically revised and significantly expanded his 1962 biography of Boughton. With the help of his friends and colleagues, including a hilarious series from George Bernard Shaw, he charts the career of the most significant and innovative British opera composer of his day. Catalogues of Boughton's compositions and literary works, together with complete cast lists of the Glastonbury Festivals, 62 music examples, and numerous photographs, complete this definitive account of an extraordinary man and his music.
The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914
The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 write by Pippa Drummond. This book was released on 2016-02-24. The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.
Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals
Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals write by Michael Hurd. This book was released on 2014. Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000)
A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000) write by Ann F. Howey. This book was released on 2006. A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Annotated bibliography of the Arthurian legend in modern English-language fiction, not only in literary texts, but in television, music, and art. The legend of Arthur has been a source of fascination for writers and artists in English since the fifteenth century, when Thomas Malory drew together for the first time in English a variety of Arthurian stories from a number of sources to form the Morte Darthur. It increased in popularity during the Victorian era, when after Tennyson's treatment of the legend, not only authors and dramatists, but painters, musicians, and film-makers found a sourceof inspiration in the Arthurian material. This interdisciplinary, annotated bibliography lists the Arthurian legend in modern English-language fiction, from 1500 to 2000, including literary texts, film, television, music, visual art, and games. It will prove an invaluable source of reference for students of literary and visual arts, general readers, collectors, librarians, and cultural historians--indeed, by anyone interested in the history of the waysin which Camelot has figured in post-medieval English-speaking cultures. ANN F. HOWEY is Assistant Professor at Brock University, Canada; STEPHEN R. REIMER is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada
A Green and Pagan Land
A Green and Pagan Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Green and Pagan Land write by David Huckvale. This book was released on 2018-01-12. A Green and Pagan Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows informed later British films and television dramas such as The Owl Service (1969-70), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), The Wicker Man (1973), Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). The author analyzes the evocative language and esthetics of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, and how "psycho-geography" is used to explore the influence of the past on the present.
