Classical
epub |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Dr Ronald Blythe [Ronald Blythe]

Those who live in the North are used to keeping out the cold by singing with half-closed vowel sounds to prevent the gale-force wind from giving them toothache, and by ...
( Category: Classical October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-04 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

II. In order to describe properly what an event my first look into Schopenhauer's writings was for me, I must dwell for a minute on an idea, that recurred more ...
( Category: Classical July 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Fred Kronacher

Near the end of my second visit to this city, six or seven of us attended a concert at the Musikverein, the famed concert hall which serves as the home ...
( Category: Piano April 5,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Alex Ross [Ross, Alex]

On January 30, 1939, Hitler celebrated the sixth anniversary of his regime by delivering a major address to the Reichstag. Since the burning of the Reichstag building in 1933, the ...
( Category: Classical March 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Gibbs, Christopher H., Solvik, Morten

Figure 1. Playbill of Alfonso und Estrella, Weimar 1854. Contrary to Liszt’s view, composition of the opera proceeded with somewhat less haste and spontaneity than was often the case with ...
( Category: Classical January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Blair Tindall

Arts funding kept pace with spending growth during the phenomenal economy of the mid-1980s. Over twenty-five thousand leveraged mergers had driven the stock market to spectacular heights. The net worth ...
( Category: Classical January 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-04 | Author:Rick Phillips [Phillips, Rick]

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 & Academic Festival Overture Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Claudio Abbado DGG Eloquence 469 685-2 JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897): Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), ...
( Category: Appreciation January 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Affron, Charles & Affron, Mirella Jona [Affron, Charles]

Made in USA Two weeks before his first night, Giulio Gatti-Casaza announced that the Met would at last present an American opera, Frederick S. Converse’s The Pipe of Desire. Soon ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm]

An Epode - Among Friends 1. It's nice, in silence together, Even nicer, laughing together -- Underneath the silken skies Amidst moss and books, here lie Friends, our joyous laughter ...
( Category: Existentialism November 11,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-10-02 | Author:Cott, Jonathan [Cott, Jonathan]

4 Bis 2011 Cheftheaterkritiker der New York Times. 5 Geboren 1930, schrieb die Texte der West Side Story. 6 Sie wurden unter dem Titel »The Unanswered Question« [dt. Musik – ...
( Category: Classical November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | 2012-08-30 | Author:Geck, Martin [Geck, Martin]

Indem Wagner auf engstem Raum von as-Moll nach E-Dur moduliert, bedient er sich nicht von ungefähr des Mittels der enharmonischen Verwechslung: Gleich dieser hat auch Wotans Seelenlage im Augenblick seiner ...
( Category: Classical November 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Matthew Guerrieri [Guerrieri, Matthew]

BEETHOVEN’S MUSIC would soon enough retake its place at the center of the canon. But the war—an upheaval to bookend the Industrial Revolution—meant that a catholic narrative of the Fifth ...
( Category: Classical August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:Gioia, Ted [Gioia, Ted]

MODERN JAZZ PIANO As it is commonly told, the history of jazz piano mirrors the evolution of the music as a whole. Earl Hines is said to have developed a ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-16 | Author:Edward W. Said [Barenboim, Daniel]

EWS: So, to incorporate the sound rather than let it . . . DB: Yes. And in fact, the conductors that have had difficulties acoustically in the pit at Bayreuth ...
( Category: Classical April 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Joseph P. Swain [Swain, Joseph P.]

The Operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully Opera First performance Librettists and sources Les Fêtes de l’Amour et de Bacchus 11 November 1672 Philippe Quinault after Molière Cadmus et Hermione April 1673 ...
( Category: Classical March 26,2014 )