Download or read book Bidu written by Denis Daniel and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bidú Sayao was a renowned, world-famous opera singer in the midtwentieth century. In his meticulously researched biography Bidú Sayao: Passion and Determination, Denis Allan Daniel provides a fascinating insight into this Brazilian operatic star with never-before-revealed details about her life. It is stated that "she was not pleased with any biography about her and therefore decided to write her autobiography but this never materialized." This book admirably supplies the definitive biography of this diminutive diva. The first chapter explains her family background in Rio de Janeiro and how and why she began having singing lessons. Chapter two deals with the exact date and place of Bidú's birth. Painstaking research eventually discovered a birth certificate to end any conjecture. The third chapter details her travels abroad, designed to perfect her singing voice and to gain the experience required of singing in operas. Chapter four concerns her early reviews and triumphs abroad. In 1936, she signs a contract with the Metropolitan Opera. However, when returning to Brazil, she is booed at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilians, at the time, liked their stars to remain in Brazil and not become "Americanized." The fifth chapter illustrates the influence of Toscanini and how he supported her in gaining roles at the Met and how she won over the severe New York critics. Chapter six provides detailed accounts of some of these reviews. In Jussi Bjorling, the Swedish tenor, she found her perfect partner for several roles at the Met. The seventh chapter includes more reviews of this highly successful period. Returning to her private life, chapter eight provides an insight on her two marriages, both with older men, who "resembled my father, helped me with my career and protected me." The ninth chapter deals with her resentments, grief, and disillusions. In Brazil, she was often unfairly describes as being unpatriotic. The actions taken by the authorities that so upset her are recorded in detail. Chapter ten concerns her postcareer struggles. In the span of three years, in the 1960s, she lost her second husband and her mother. "I almost died with her. I think I did die a little. It was horrible. The worst time in my life. I had money but no happiness. I began to have heart problems, irregular heartbeats, palpitations and cold sweats." An interesting anecdote about the power of redemption closes the chapter. The eleventh chapter is about her love for Brazil and her pride of being Brazilian. She once said, "I am a Brazilian from the bottom of my heart and it deeply offends me to hear that I am antipatriotic." The next chapter covers her vanity, distinctions, and honors. Bidú used whatever vanity she had for the benefit of her art. She felt and acted as a true star should feel and act. The distinctions and honors that she was awarded are listed chronologically. Chapter thirteen concerns her American citizenship even though she always maintained her Brazilian citizenship. The next chapter discusses her relationship with Villa-Lobos, whose Bachianas No. 5 was definitively performed by Bidú. This became the greatest world success of both of their careers. It became the best-selling record in the United States of America for two consecutive years. The fifteenth chapter relates her successful return to Rio to appear as the star of the Beija-Flor samba school parade, at the age of ninety-two! Her death two years later is described in the next chapter with a full description of her last will and testament. It ends with quotations by Bidú about her life and opera. In conclusion, the author explains how she had to overcome enormous obstacles and the basic limitation of a fine light soprano voice and that her exceptional human and professional qualities, as a leading star of the opera world, should never be forgotten. As one critic wrote, "This was a voice such as one doesn't often hear in this world. Pure and effortless it ranged from a silver trickle to a golden torrent. Sometimes her voice soared to almost unbelievable heights and hung there--hung there like a skylark pouring its heart out in the sky." Finally, the addenda provide extensive details of reviews of Bidú's performances abroad, at the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, operas sang by Bidú at the Met, at the San Francisco Opera, a bibliography, a comprehensive discography, and finally, a list of compositions by Villa-Lobos. This book, a labor of love by the author, is undoubtedly now the definitive biography of Bidú Sayao. Her life has finally been given the due attention it has always deserved.

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Download or read book Geology of North West Borneo written by C.S. Hutchison and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Geology of North-West Borneo Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- History of Geological Investigation -- Early exploration -- Netherlands East Indies geological and mining department -- The oil company era -- The Geological Survey (European era 1949-1968) -- The Geological Survey (Malaysian era 1969-onwards) -- Regional Tectonic Setting -- Part A Sarawak -- Regional Geology Concepts -- Palaeomagnetism of Sarawak -- Geomorphology -- Mesa Topography -- Karst Topography -- Rajang Group Inliers in Miri Zone -- Synclines of Sandy Formations -- Mud Volcanoes -- The Kuching Zone -- Basement Schists -- Correlatives -- Terbat Formation -- Thickness and relationships -- Lithology -- Palaeontology and age -- Correlatives -- Upper Triassic Formations -- Serian Volcanic Formation -- Jagoi Granodiorite -- Sadong Formation -- Regional palaeogeography -- Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous Formations -- Kedadom Formation -- Bau Limestone Formation -- Pedawan ...

Download or read book Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China 1948 1953 written by Hua-Yu Li and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first systematic study of its kind, Hua-yu Li tackles one of the most important unresolved mysteries of the early history of the People's Republic of China_the economic policy shift of 1953. As a result of this policy shift, the moderate economic policies of 'New Democracy' were abruptly terminated_much sooner than specified by the official party line_and replaced with a radical Stalinist economic program called the 'general line for socialist transition.' Utilizing the rich archival materials released in China since the mid-1980s and Russian archival information released since the early 1990s, Li presents a compelling explanation for the policy shift. Placing the analysis within the larger context of the world communist movement, communist ideology, and Mao's complicated relationship with Stalin, this book makes it clear that the policy shift was initiated by Mao and that he did so for two reasons. First, he was committed to a history text compiled under Stalin's guidance that purported to describe the Soviet experience of building socialism in the 1920s and 1930s. Mao relied heavily on this text as a road map for China to follow in building socialism in the early 1950s. Second, Mao was driven by feelings of personal rivalry with Stalin and of national rivalry with the Soviet Union: he wanted China to achieve socialism faster than the Soviet Union had. The precise timing of the change, Li argues, resulted from Mao's belief that China was economically ready to build socialism and from his decision to interpret an ambiguous statement made by Stalin in October 1952 as a clear endorsement of a policy shift. Li asserts that Mao was a committed Stalinist, that he dominated domestic policy decision-making, and that he skillfully maneuvered his way through his negotiations with Stalin in advancing his own agenda. Situating its analysis within the larger context of the world communist movement, this carefully researched book will have a profound impact on the fields of communist studies and Sino-Soviet relations and in studies of Mao, Stalin, and their relationship.

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Download or read book Engmawi written by Stephan C. Hmar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Engmawi, a village girl from the North East, is hired as a hostess in Hotel Alpha by Abhay, her joy is inexplicable. However, what she doesn’t know is that Abhay is a gangster, a sex-maniac, the son-in-law of a powerful don Rocky and the son of Dhruv, who’ll do anything to take revenge. Naive but pure-hearted, Engmawi is shocked to find the real intention of Abhay right from the first day at the hotel. The more she keeps her distance, the more it makes him want her. Engmawi’s world suddenly takes a terrifying turn when she witnesses Dhruv killing Damodar. Though Dan, her crazy lover, saves her life from Dhruv’s men, Engmawi has no choice. She needs to work and earn for her poor parents back in the village. Despite warnings from Sharon D’souza, Abhay’s girlfriend, that her life is in danger, Engmawi chooses her way and lands in a trap of kidnap, rape and murder. Who’ll save her from the bad guys? Will she ever see her parents again?

Download or read book Patients and Performative Identities written by J. Cale Johnson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The missing piece in so many histories of Mesopotamian technical disciplines is the client, who often goes unnoticed by present-day scholars seeking to reconstruct ancient disciplines in the Near East over millennia. The contributions to this volume investigate how Mesopotamian medical specialists interacted with their patients and, in doing so, forged their social and professional identities. The chapters in this book explore rituals for success at court, the social classes who made use of such rituals, and depictions of technical specialists on seal impressions and in later Greco-Roman iconography. Several essays focus on Egalkura: rituals of entering the court, meant to invoke a favorable impression from the sovereign. These include detailed surveys and comparative studies of the genre and its roots in the emergent astrological paradigm of the late first millennium BC. The different media and modalities of interaction between technical specialists and their clients are also a central theme explored in detailed studies of the sickbed scene in the iconography of Mesopotamian cylinder seals and the transmission of specialized pharmaceutical knowledge from the Mesopotamian to the Greco-Roman world. Offering an encyclopedic survey of ritual clients attested in the cuneiform textual record, this volume outlines both the Mesopotamian and the Greco-Roman social contexts in which these rituals were used. It will be of interest to students of the history of medicine, as well as to students and scholars of ancient Mesopotamia. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Netanel Anor, Siam Bhayro, Strahil V. Panayotov, Maddalena Rumor, Marvin Schreiber, JoAnn Scurlock, and Ulrike Steinert.

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Certain Native Tribes of the Northern Territory written by Baldwin Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinship classification, terms of relationship of Larrakya, Worgait, Port Essington, Melville Island, Djauan, Mungarai and Nullakun tribes; full account of initiation ceremonies (Larrakya, Worgait, Djauan, Mungarai, Nullakun, Melville Island, Port Essington); totemic systems (Melville Island, Port Essington, Larrakya, Worgait, Djauan, Mungarai, Mara, Nullakun, Yungman); sacred sticks and traditions associated with them; traditions associated with ancestral heroes; myths concerning Kunapippi (Mungarai), Sugar Bag man (Yungman), Snake man & Thunder man (Mungarai), Rainbow man (Nullakun); beliefs regarding origin of children and reincarnation; burial rites (Larrakya, Melville Island, Mungarai, Mara); mutilation of the body, camps, shelters etc.

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