The Nightingale's Sonata - 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 Nightingale's Sonata write by Thomas Wolf. This book was released on 2019-06-04. The Nightingale's Sonata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.
A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy - 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 House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy write by Tennessee Williams. This book was released on 2008-04-17. A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. Cornelius, who has political ambitions and a litany of health problems, is trying to find a large amount of moonshine money his gentle wife Bella has hidden somewhere in their collapsing house, but his noisy efforts are disrupted by a stream of remarkable characters, both living and dead. While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.
Music for the End of Time
Music for the End of Time - 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 Music for the End of Time write by Jennifer Bryant. This book was released on 2005. Music for the End of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.
The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett
The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett - 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 Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett write by Kenneth Gloag. This book was released on 2013-01-17. The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera - 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 Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera write by Sarah Kay. This book was released on 2022-07-15. Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality—as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils—Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard. Kay understands song in terms of breath, the constellations, the animal soul, and life itself. Her method also draws inspiration from opera, especially those that inventively recreate medieval song, arguing for a perspective on the manuscripts that transmit medieval song as instances of multimedia, quasi-operatic performances. Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera features a companion website (cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/medieval-song) hosting twenty-four audio or video recordings, realized by professional musicians specializing in early music, of pieces discussed in the book, together with performance scores, performance reflections, and translations of all recorded texts. These audiovisual materials represent an extension in practice of the research aims of the book—to better understand the sung dimension of medieval song.
