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Book Richard Rodney Bennett Collection

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Book Richard Rodney Bennett  The Complete Musician

Download or read book Richard Rodney Bennett The Complete Musician written by Paul Harris and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in the enormous diversity of his activities, is arguably the most complete musician of all time. Not only does he have a remarkable 300 commissioned concert works to his credit, which have established him among the leading British twentieth-century composers, yet at the same time, with supreme success, he has also contrived to lead several completely different musical lives. For some, he is the ultimate exponent of 'crossover', as epitomised in his remarkable Concerto for Stan Getz and concert works for Cleo Laine. Others remember him as a concert pianist with a special enthusiasm for pioneering contemporary music, his partnerships with Susan Bradshaw, Jane Manning and Barry Tuckwell being particularly notable. Meanwhile, he also has over 70 film and television scores to his credit, the many classic titles ranging from Murder on the Orient Express and Far From the Madding Crowd to Equus and Four Weddings and a Funeral. For cabaret and jazz club devotees, he is, again, something completely different: one of the finest and most knowledgeable of all exponents of the Great American Songbook, a much-in-demand singer and accompanist over the past thirty-five years, and, as such, the stage partner of some of the most glamorous performers in the business. This, then, is a book about a uniquely gifted musician. It is also a study of a most engaging personality and a fascinatingly complex human being. Anthony Meredith, whose two previous collaborations with co-researcher Paul Harris were the highly praised biographies of Malcolm Arnold and Malcolm Williamson, has been a widely published writer over the past twenty-five years. He is a member of MCC, a Friend of Covent Garden and Northern Ballet. His co-researcher, Paul Harris, is a leading music educationalist, well-known for his seminars, workshops and masterclasses, with over 500 books to his name.

Book Richard Rodney Bennett

Download or read book Richard Rodney Bennett written by and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Rodney Bennett

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stewart R. Craggs
  • Publisher : Greenwood
  • Release : 1990-02-08
  • ISBN : 0313261792
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Richard Rodney Bennett written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. Schirmer, Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, Inc. present a biographical sketch of the British composer Richard Rodney Bennett (1936- ). The composer studied at the Royal Academy of Music and has made several recordings with jazz artists. Bennett's works include pieces for solo instruments, symphonies, and operas. Novello & Co. publishes Bennett's music.

Book A Composer s Insight  Richard Rodney Bennett

Download or read book A Composer s Insight Richard Rodney Bennett written by Timothy Salzman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this initial volume are rare, behind-the-notes perspectives acquired from personal interviews with each composer. An excellent resource for conductors, composers or enthusiasts interested in acquiring a richer musical understanding of the composers' training, compositional approach, musical influences and interpretative ideas. Features the music of: Timothy Broege, Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, David Gillingham, John Harbison, Karel Husa, Alfred Reed and others.

Book Composer Portraits  Richard Rodney Bennett

Download or read book Composer Portraits Richard Rodney Bennett written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the English composer Richard Rodney Bennett, with notes by Anthony Meredith. Songlist: - Eustace And Hilda (Theme) - Excursions - II. Andante lento - Impromptu on the name of Haydn - Little Elegy - Memento - Partridge Pie - VIII. Eight Maids a-Milking - Rosemary's Waltz (from Tender Is The Night) - Tango After Syrinx - Three Romantic Pieces - III. Andante semplice

Book The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals

Download or read book The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals written by Dan Dietz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the stock market crash of October 1929, thousands of theatregoers still flocked to the Great White Way throughout the country’s darkest years. In keeping with the Depression and the events leading up to World War II, 1930s Broadway was distinguished by numerous political revues and musicals, including three by George Gershwin (Strike Up the Band, Of Thee I Sing, and Let ’Em Eat Cake). The decade also saw the last musicals by Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Vincent Youmans; found Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in full flower; and introduced both Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen’s music to Broadway. In The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every musical that opened on Broadway from 1930 through 1939. This book discusses the era’s major successes, notorious failures, and musicals that closed during their pre-Broadway tryouts. It includes such shows as Anything Goes, As Thousands Cheer, Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse, The Cradle Will Rock, The Green Pastures, Hellzapoppin, Hot Mikado, Porgy and Bess, Roberta, and various editions of Ziegfeld Follies. Each entry contains the following information: Plot summary Cast members Names of all important personnel, including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors Opening and closing dates Number of performances Critical commentary Musical numbers and the performers who introduced the songs Production data, including information about tryouts Source material Details about London and other foreign productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, including a discography, filmography, and list of published scripts, as well as lists of black-themed and Jewish-themed productions. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of information and provides a comprehensive view of each show. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.

Book Boulez on Music Today

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  • Author : Pierre Boulez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780571094202
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Boulez on Music Today written by Pierre Boulez and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sea Change

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  • Author : Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Sea Change written by Richard Rodney Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Poems

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  • Author : Fran Landesman
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-04-14
  • ISBN : 1504011031
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Collected Poems written by Fran Landesman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and lyricist Fran Landesman occupies the ironic territory between Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Landesman’s work combines pathos and humor and glows with the tough wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of riding in fast convertibles and hanging out in smoky bars. This ebook contains Landesman’s books Invade My Privacy, The Ballad of the Sad Young Men and Other Verse, and More Truth Than Poetry.

Book Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning  Creativity and Horn Performance

Download or read book Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning Creativity and Horn Performance written by Douglas Hill and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Hill is professor of music and horn at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as well as a past President of the International Horn Society, and a respected teacher and clinician. The 27 chapters of Collected Thoughts cover topics ranging from getting started to preparing for college and professional auditions, and include other subjects such as composing and improvising. There are seven chapters on repertoire that include reviews of music and texts that are the most comprehensive of any horn (or other instrumental) text to date. The process of learning and teaching is extremely insightful for everyone, from the serious student to the most experienced instructor. This book is a must for anyone interested in the horn. It is invaluable!!

Book British Musical Modernism

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  • Author : Philip Rupprecht
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015-07-09
  • ISBN : 1316297985
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book British Musical Modernism written by Philip Rupprecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Musical Modernism explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British art music in the post-war period. Responding to radical avant-garde developments in post-war Europe, the Manchester Group composers - Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Harrison Birtwistle - and their contemporaries assimilated the serial-structuralist preoccupations of mid-century internationalism to an art grounded in resurgent local traditions. In close readings of some thirty-five scores, Philip Rupprecht traces a modernism suffused with the formal elegance of the 1950s, the exuberant theatricality of the 1960s, and - in the works of David Bedford and Tim Souster - the pop, minimalist, and live-electronic directions of the early 1970s. Setting music-analytic insights against a broader social-historical backdrop, Rupprecht traces a British musical modernism that was at once a collective artistic endeavor, and a sounding myth of national identity.

Book New Classics To Moderns  3rd Series  Book 3

Download or read book New Classics To Moderns 3rd Series Book 3 written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Classics To Moderns, 3rd Series: Book 3 presents a selection of original Piano music by the master composers of the past four centuries. Inspired by the popular series by Denes Agay, each of the six books in the New Classics To Moderns collection contains pieces by a wide range of composers, from old masters to contemporary writers. These easy arrangements are perfect for students, teachers, and indeed all pianists; a priceless source of study material, recital pieces, sight reading exercises — as well as relaxing musical entertainment. Songlist: - Passepied (from Pièces de Clavessin, Suite I) [Le Roux] - 2–Part Invention No.10 in G Major [J.S. Bach] - Musette [J.S. Bach] - Giga (from Sonata in D Minor) [Seixas] - Menuet and Trio (from Sonata in A Major) [Haydn] - Sonatina in F Major, 1st Movement [Clementi] - Rondo, K.15d (No.4 from The London Sketchbook) [Mozart] - Promenade (from Pictures At An Exhibition) [Mussorgsky] - Maman (from Album For the Young) [Tchaikovsky] - Mazurka in F Major [Chopin] - No.1 (from Piano Music For Young And Old) [Nielsen] - In Solitude (from Five Pastels, Op.51) [Swinstead] - Allegretto (No.3 from Les Cinq Doigts) [Stravinsky] - There Is A Path There Is (from Folk Melodies) [Lutosławski ] - Little Elegy [Bennett] - Far From Home (from In The Pink) [Chapple] - Contrasts (from Bagatelles) [Hurd]

Book Music  Books on Music  and Sound Recordings

Download or read book Music Books on Music and Sound Recordings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book George Gershwin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Pollack
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2007-01-15
  • ISBN : 0520933141
  • Pages : 938 pages

Download or read book George Gershwin written by Howard Pollack and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his music. Gershwin created some of the most beloved music of the twentieth century and, along with Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter, helped make the golden age of Broadway golden. Howard Pollack draws from a wealth of sketches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, books, articles, recordings, films, and other materials—including a large cache of Gershwin scores discovered in a Warner Brothers warehouse in 1982—to create an expansive chronicle of Gershwin’s meteoric rise to fame. He also traces Gershwin’s powerful presence that, even today, extends from Broadway, jazz clubs, and film scores to symphony halls and opera houses. Pollack’s lively narrative describes Gershwin’s family, childhood, and education; his early career as a pianist; his friendships and romantic life; his relation to various musical trends; his writings on music; his working methods; and his tragic death at the age of 38. Unlike Kern, Berlin, and Porter, who mostly worked within the confines of Broadway and Hollywood, Gershwin actively sought to cross the boundaries between high and low, and wrote works that crossed over into a realm where art music, jazz, and Broadway met and merged. The author surveys Gershwin’s entire oeuvre, from his first surviving compositions to the melodies that his brother and principal collaborator, Ira Gershwin, lyricized after his death. Pollack concludes with an exploration of the performances and critical reception of Gershwin's music over the years, from his time to ours.

Book Richard Rodney Bennett

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  • Author : Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-06
  • ISBN : 9781783053827
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Richard Rodney Bennett written by Richard Rodney Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written byexperts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the English composer Richard Rodney Bennett. Edited by Sam Lung, with notes by Anthony Meredith.

Book Northerners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sefton Samuels
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-05-31
  • ISBN : 1409033856
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Northerners written by Sefton Samuels and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'northern' conjures plenty of stereotypical images; men in flat caps, cobbled streets, pies and rain. But beyond the clichés lies a region rich in its diversity, devilish in its humour and fertile in its culture, and it is these characteristics that iconic photographer Sefton Samuels has captured faithfully over four decades, and are compiled here in Northerners. Described by the Guardian as 'the photographic equivalent of Ken Loach', Samuels shot legendary figures of northern life, from Alan Bennett to Morrissey, LS Lowry to George Best and Sir Ben Kingsley, but most famously and vividly he captured the realities of everyday life across the north. With snatched shots of children cheekily mugging to his camera, pictures of the more grandiose members of society at the local hunt, photos of the bleaker side of life with the riots in Moss Side, and snaps of the young and fashionable posing as they hang around with nothing to do, Northerners reveals a photographer at one with his subject; and a region whose open character was meant to be captured through a lens.