Download or read book Enesco Then and Now written by Kathleen Deel and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enesco*r is one of the oldest importing companies in the United States, with a history dating back to the late 1800s. This book features a huge array of Enesco's gift, collectible, and decorative items, including figurines, planters, kitchenware, bells, banks, and head vases -- all shown with current market values. Included are early lines like Beaver Dam*r, Dearie is Weary*r, and Golden Girls*r, plus contemporary favorites like Country Cousins*r, Human Beans*r, and Precious Moments*r. Over 1,500 items illustrated.
Download or read book Journal written by Philadelphia Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Menuhin written by Sir Humphrey Burton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens in the decades after the death of a popular performing artist. Far from it: the centenary of his birth, April 22, 1916, is being marked by celebrations around the world.Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York of Russian Jewish immigrants. Prodigiously gifted, the 'Miracle Boy' gave his first solo recital aged eight and within five years was world-famous. Menuhin was a visionary individualist, who didn't mind shocking the establishment. His post-war support for the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, and his determination to build bridges with the defeated German nation, brought him into sharp conflict with the Jewish establishment and DPs in Berlin. Later he spoke out against apartheid in South Africa and denounced the Soviet Union's oppressive policy towards writers and dissidents.Drawing on contemporary sources, unpublished family correspondence and radio interviews, Burton creates a compelling portrait of an extraordinary human being - one of the best-loved classical musicians of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Enesco written by Boris I︠A︡kovlevich Kotli︠a︡rov and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the great composer, violin virtuoso, piano virtuoso, and conductor (one of the most versatile musicians of our time), who is considered the father of Romanian nationalism in high-art music. Even after his death, young Romanian composers have turned to his scores in order to better understand the Romanian soul. In fact, his countrymen hold his memory in such regard that his hometown has been renamed after him. Nevertheless, his compositional style was cosmopolitan, with a distinctly Parisian flavor. (Indeed, we know his name in the spelling he adopted while living in France.) His most ambitious work was his four-act opera Oedipe, based on the Sophocles tragedy, but ending - unlike the original - on a note of triumph. This opera is extensively analyzed by the author, who has included in the text more than 80 musical examples from Enesco's works, making this book a must for music lovers who wish to become better acquainted with one of the masters of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Musical America written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Icons of American Protestantism written by David Morgan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although American Protestants often claim that they are opposed to the use of devotional images in their religious life, they in fact draw on a vast body of religious icons to disseminate confessional views, to teach, and to celebrate birthdays, baptisms, confirmations, and sacred holidays. This fascinating book focuses on the production, marketing, and reception of one such set of religious illustrations, the art of Warner Sallman (1892-1968), whose 1940 Head of Christ has been reproduced an estimated five hundred million times. Five scholars--three art historians, a church historian, and a historian of material culture--investigate various aspects of Sallman's career and art, in the process revealing much about the role of imagery in the everyday devotional life of American Protestants since the 1940s. The chapters examine Sallman's work in terms of the visual sources, media, and forms of use that shaped its making; its mass production, marketing, and distribution by publishers and vendors; and the commercial nature of Sallman's training and his work as an illustrator. Other chapters explore the reception of his religious imagery among those who admired it and saw in it a vision of the world as they would have it exist; the religious and theological context of conservative American Protestantism in which the imagery flourished; and its critical reception among liberal Protestant intelligentsia who despised Sallman's work and what it represented in popular Christianity. By placing Sallman's art in theological, ecclesiastical, and aesthetic perspective, the book sheds light on the evolving shape of twentieth-century American evangelicalism and its influence on modern American culture.
Download or read book Nurtured by Love written by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the cornerstone upon which to build any Suzuki-oriented library. In it the author presents the philosophy and principles of Suzuki's teaching methods. Through the examples from his own life and teaching, Suzuki establishes his case for early childhood education and the high potential of every human being, not just those seemingly gifted.
Download or read book The Official Precious Moments Collectors Guide to Figurines written by John Bomm and published by . This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable resource presents information on 2,500 bisque Precious Moments figurines, with full-color photos, item numbers, dates of issues, availability, and current market value for each.
Download or read book Rosie s Secondary Market Price Guide for Enesco s Precious Moments Collection written by Rosalie J Wells and published by . This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosie's secondary market price guide for Enesco's Precious moments collection.
Download or read book After Some Tomorrow written by Mack Reynolds and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POWER! Perhaps the rarest gift in the world is that ability to read the future, to know what will happen to a person, a group, even a country, and when it will happen! EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION The year is some indeterminate time in the future; Mickey Grant and Anna Enesco are involved in special studies for people who have shown extraordinary ESP talent. Their progress is as frightening as it is incredible. But when our government sends them on missions that become increasingly dangerous and difficult, are their lives the price of their special pre-knowledge?
Download or read book Arthur Honegger written by Harry Halbreich and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Honegger (1892--1955), Swiss by nationality, French by education and residence, was a major composer of the 20th century. Although he earned popular acclaim early in his career, in his later years his consistently tonal musical language was considered outmoded. His most significant works include five symphonies, a large body of chamber music, and several large-scale oratorios that combine choral and instrumental writing with declaimed narrative in a uniquely effective way. HARDCOVER
Download or read book Americas English Ed written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ravel written by Roger Nichols and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the composer’s friends and associates. As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, the book explores new evidence to present radical views of the composer’s background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual preferences, and his long final illness. It also contains the most detailed account so far published of his hugely successful American tour of 1928. The world of Maurice Ravel—including friendships (and some fallings-out) with Debussy, Faur�, Diaghilev, Gershwin, and Toscanini—is deftly uncovered in this sensitive portrait.
Download or read book The Dawn of Indian Music in the West written by Peter Lavezzoli and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology, an
Download or read book Journal of the Philadelphia Orchestra written by Philadelphia Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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