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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
North's Philadelphia Musical Journal
Author: Thomas Eakins
Author: Elizabeth JohnsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820251
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? With a rich discussion of the cultural and vocational context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elizabeth Johns answers this question.
Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania
Author: John Augustus SmullPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania
Author: Philadelphia Musical Journal and Review
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013694257
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Smull's Legislative Hand Book
Author: Pennsylvania State Manual
Author: N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Opera for the People
Author: Katherine K. PrestonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199371660
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.
Philadelphia Musical Journal and Review, Vol. 1
Author: John M. EvansPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365514664
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Excerpt from Philadelphia Musical Journal and Review, Vol. 1: March 12th, 1856 Musical Pretension, The Deluge. A Sacred Oratorio. In three Parts, Music and the Poets, The Encore Swindle, Music Committees, The Necessity for Educated music-teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.