Download or read book The Opera Houses of Iowa written by George D. Glenn and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opera Houses of Iowa written by George D. Glenn and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collection of Programs and Playbills of the Grand Opera House Burlington Iowa written by Grand Opera House (Burlington, Iowa) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Glories written by Ann Satterthwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and far more interesting-history than that stereotype implies. In Local Glories, Ann Satterthwaite explores the creative, social, and communal roles of the thousands of opera houses that flourished in small towns across the country. By 1900, opera houses were everywhere: on second floors over hardware stores, in grand independent buildings, in the back rooms of New England town halls, and even in the bowels of a Mississippi department store. With travel made easier by the newly expanded rail lines, Sarah Bernhardt, Mark Twain, and John Philip Sousa entertained thousands of townspeople, as did countless actors, theater and opera companies, innumerable minor league magicians, circuses, and lecturers, and even 500 troupes that performed nothing but Uncle Tom's Cabin. Often the town's only large space for public assembly, the local opera house served as a place for local activities such as school graduations, recitations, sports, town meetings, elections, political rallies, and even social dances and roller skating parties. Considered local landmarks, often in distinctive architect-designed buildings, they aroused considerable pride and reinforced town identity. By considering states with distinctly different histories--principally Maine, Nebraska, Vermont, New York, and Colorado--Satterthwaite describes the diversity of opera houses, programs, audiences, buildings, promoters, and supporters--and their hopes, dreams, and ambitions. In the twentieth century, radio and movies, and later television and changing tastes made these opera houses seem obsolete. Some were demolished, while others languished for decades until stalwart revivers discovered them again in the 1970s. The resuscitation of these opera houses today, an example of historic preservation and creative reuse, reflects the timeless quest for cultural inspiration and for local engagement to counter the anonymity of the larger world. These "local glories" are where art and community meet, forging connections and making communities today, just as they did in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Grand Opera House Burlington Iowa Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jno B Jeffery s Guide and Directory to the Opera Houses Theatres Public Halls Bill Posters Etc of the Cities and Towns of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grand Opera House Decorah Iowa written by Dirk Darnell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Theater Structures in Iowa and Nebraska 1857 1900 written by Reynolds Keith Allen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Donaldson Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corning Opera House written by Tracy A. Cunning and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corning Opera House, built in 1902, is a second floor theater located above first floor businesses at the upper end of the central business district. It is a brick building of rectangular plan, with a hipped roof behind a low parapet, and two public facades, west and south, that are divided by a pedimented cut corner with a semi-circular bay window at the second floor level.
Download or read book Elkader Opera House written by Marjorie C.. Costigan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Elkader Opera House is a historic building located in Elkader, Iowa, United States. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 2012 it was included as a contributing property in the Elkader Downtown Historic District. The Opera House opened on November 27, 1903 replacing a previous opera house on the same location that was destroyed by fire the previous year. The three-story brick building features a symmetrical facade. The center bay has three round arch windows that are flanked above and below with ornamental brickwork. There is also brickwork near the cornice level of the side bays. The three bays are separated by brick pilasters. An entrance on the side of the building was created for city hall."--Wikipedia, 30 March 1923.
Download or read book The Theatre in Southeastern Iowa written by Barbara Carleen Brice Fay and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warren Opera House Block Hetherington Block written by Martha H. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 the Warren Cultural Center opened as a multi-use facility, consisting of the former Warren Opera House Block and the Hetherington Block, which were erected almost simultaneously in 1896 and shared a common entrance and staircase. Both buildings are 2 1/2 stories, on full basements, of solid brick construction and common small town late 19th century Romanesque revival style. Original owners were E. E. Warren, dry goods store owner/operator and John J. Hetherington's real estate, etc. business.
Download or read book Local Glories written by Ann Satterthwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 Symbols of Pride -- Part Four Born Again: Revived Opera Houses and Their Communities -- 15 The Phoenix Rises -- 16 Successes -- 17 Engines for Regeneration -- 18 Like Family -- 19 Connecting Again -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Listing of Extant Opera Houses by State -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Download or read book A New History of Iowa written by Jeff Bremer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. It’s thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely as New York and California, and Iowa’s history is more dynamic, complicated, and influential than commonly imagined. Jeff Bremer’s A New History of Iowa offers the most comprehensive history of the Hawkeye State ever written, surveying Iowa from the last ice age through the COVID-19 pandemic. It tells a new and vibrant story, examining the state’s small-town culture, politics, social and economic development, and its many diverse inhabitants. Bremer features well-known individuals, such as Sauk leader Black Hawk, artist Grant Wood, botanist George Washington Carver, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, and President Herbert Hoover. But Bremer broadens the state’s story by including new voices—among them, runaway enslaved men who joined Iowa’s 60th Colored Regiment in the Civil War, young female pearl button factory workers, Latino railroad workers who migrated to the state in the early twentieth century, and recent refugees from Southeast Asia and the Balkans. This new story of Iowa provides a brisk, readable narrative written for a broad audience, from high school and college students to teachers and scholars to general readers. It tells the story of ordinary and extraordinary people of all backgrounds and greatly improves our knowledge of a state whose history has been neglected. A New History of Iowa is for everyone who wants to learn about Iowa’s surprising, complex, and remarkable past.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Performance Project in Solo Vocal Literature with an Essay Entitled Steam Heat Gas Lamps and Hot Wieners written by Gayle Beth Hartwig and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
