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First Nights

2000-01-01 Music
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Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis First Nights by : Thomas Forrest Kelly

Download or read book First Nights written by Thomas Forrest Kelly. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.

First Nights

2016-11-08 Poetry
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Release : 2016-11-08
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 951/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis First Nights by : Niall Campbell

Download or read book First Nights written by Niall Campbell. This book was released on 2016-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetry The Scottish poet Niall Campbell's first book, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, the largest such prize in the United Kingdom, was named the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for both the Fenton Aldeburgh and Forward prizes for best first collection. First Nights—which includes all the poems in Moontide and sixteen new ones—marks the North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetry. First Nights offers vivid descriptions of the natural world, and the joy found in moments of quiet, alongside intimate depictions of new parenthood. Campbell grew up on the remote, sparsely populated islands of South Uist and Eriskay in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and First Nights is filled with images of the islands’ seascapes, myths, wildlife, and long, dark winters. But the poems widen beyond their immediate locations to include thoughts on sculpture and mythology, Zola and Dostoevsky, and life in English cities and French villages. In the poems on early fatherhood, the geography shifts from coastal stretches to bare, dimly lit rooms. Stripped back, honest, and immediate, these poems capture moments of vulnerability, when the only answer is to love. Combining skilled storytelling, precise language, an allegiance to meter and form, and a quiet musicality, these poems resonate with silence and song, mystery and wonder, exploring ideas of companionship and withdrawal, love, and the stillness of solitude. The result is a collection that promises to be a classic.

Charley's First Night

2012-10-09 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2012-10-09
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Charley's First Night by : Amy Hest

Download or read book Charley's First Night written by Amy Hest. This book was released on 2012-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of our most beloved picture book creators team up to tell a classic story of a child, his new puppy, and a first night home. On Charley’s first night, Henry carries his new puppy in his old baby blanket all the way to his house. He shows Charley every room, saying, "This is home, Charley." He says that a lot so that Charley will know that he is home. Henry’s parents are very clear about who will be walking and feeding Charley (Henry will, and he can’t wait). They are also very clear about where Charley will be sleeping: Charley will be sleeping in the kitchen. But when the crying starts in the middle of the night, Henry knows right away that it’s Charley! And it looks like his parents’ idea about where Charley is going to sleep may have to change. With warmth, humor, and endearing simplicity, Amy Hest tells a tale familiar to everyone who has loved a puppy, while Helen Oxenbury renders each tender gesture and charming detail in a beauty of a book that children will be eager to take home.

Tooth Fairy's First Night

2014-01-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2014-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 325/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Tooth Fairy's First Night by : Anne Bowen

Download or read book Tooth Fairy's First Night written by Anne Bowen. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally has always longed to be a tooth fairy. On her seventh birthday, she is finally going off to get her first tooth, with the most important rule—“You must never wake a sleeping child!” running through her mind. When she reaches the house, she finds the job is not as easy as she’d hoped. A good tooth fairy always gets her tooth—but will Sally get hers? This warm and playful tale about a determined tooth fairy will have children of all ages sleeping with one eye open, hoping to catch their own tooth fairy in the act.

First Nights at the Opera

2006-05-01 Music
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Release : 2006-05-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 260/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis First Nights at the Opera by : Thomas Forrest Kelly

Download or read book First Nights at the Opera written by Thomas Forrest Kelly. This book was released on 2006-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned music scholar narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries by taking readers behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas. 88 illustrations.

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