Yvonne Printemps
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The Complete Book Of 1930s Broadway Musicals
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Author : Dan Dietz
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-03-29
The Complete Book Of 1930s Broadway Musicals written by Dan Dietz and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-29 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
A Theatrical Feast In Paris
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Author : Elizabeth Sharland
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005-11
A Theatrical Feast In Paris written by Elizabeth Sharland and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11 with Actors categories.
Read where British, American and French writers, actors and authors wined and dined in Paris. From Moliere to Deneuve, from Hemingway to Sedaris. Find out the theatre scene there, today and yesterday. Follow their footsteps in the City of Light and discover fabulous places including the setting of the Da Vinci Code in the Louvre.
Daphne Du Maurier
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Author : Oriel Malet
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-08-18
Daphne Du Maurier written by Oriel Malet and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Daphne du Maurier’s correspondence with Oriel Malet began in the early 1950s, after they met at a cocktail party in London. At least twenty years separated them: Oriel was a gauche young writer while Daphne was the famous, much-fêted author of bestselling novels including Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel, and Rebecca. The friendship flourished for thirty years, fed by the letters that arrived faithfully from Menabilly, the du Maurier house in Cornwall. While Oriel tasted life on a houseboat on the Seine and mixed with the aristocratic Who’s Who of Paris, Daphne’s letters tell of her family, past and present, her marriage to General Sir Frederick Browning—a war hero known privately as ‘Moper’ whose fits of melancholy caused many a crisis at Menabilly—and events like Prince Philip coming for dinner: ‘We’ve got only four knives with handles, and one silver candlestick must be glued!’ Most of all, her letters are a valuable record of the complex and rigorous art of a fine and well-loved writer: the ‘brewing’ of a plot, the research, and the ‘pegging’ of secret fantasies onto a living person in order to create classical characters such as Cousin Rachel and Roger Kylmerth. Disarmingly frank about sex, an earnest seeker after spiritual and psychological truth, Daphne du Maurier is revealed in her letters as an inspiring and delightful correspondent—as well as a once-in-a-lifetime friend.
Yvonne Printemps
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Author : Claude Dufresne
language : fr
Publisher: FeniXX
Release Date : 1994-01-01T00:00:00+01:00
Yvonne Printemps written by Claude Dufresne and has been published by FeniXX this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
"En écoutant ses chansons, avec une sorte d’émerveillement devant tant de dons et de grâce, on songe à des jardins, à des rosiers, à des sources, à des oiseaux, à tout ce qui embaume, séduit ou désaltère, à tout ce qui monte, vibre et s’envole..." De fait, rien ne saurait mieux résumer le charme d’Yvonne Printemps, que ce jugement porté par un journaliste du Gaulois. Elle est si belle et chante tellement à ravir, la jolie gamine d’Ermont, le charmant Gavroche qui enflamma le cœur du héros Guynemer, le plus exquis chef-d’œuvre qu’ait jamais conçu Sacha Guitry (son mari durant quinze ans), l’ardente et tumultueuse compagne de Pierre Fresnais, la dernière reine de Paris, celle qui déchaîna tant d’amour, qui enfiévra tant d’imaginations et qui fit jaillir tant de bravos, bref l’éternelle Printemps ! Tout en nous relatant sa vie passionnée – par ailleurs illustrée de nombreux documents originaux -, Claude Dufresne a suscité les témoignages de ceux qui, comme lui, ont approché et connu cette femme hors du commun.
Yvonne Printemps
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Author : Karine Ciupa
language : fr
Publisher: FeniXX
Release Date : 1989-01-01T00:00:00+01:00
Yvonne Printemps written by Karine Ciupa and has been published by FeniXX this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
Capricieuse, injuste et abusive, Yvonne Printemps n’a pas volé la réputation de femme infernale et facile qui lui colle à la peau. Elle est en partie responsable de l’image outrée qu’elle a donnée d’elle-même. C’était une femme secrète, fabulatrice, parfois à bon escient, ne mélangeant ni les gens ni les genres. Élevée à la dure sur les scènes de music-hall, elle devient une étoile. Amoureuse de Guynemer, elle choisit pourtant Sacha Guitry qui fait d’elle une star et écrit des rôles sur mesure pour cette chanteuse qui joue aussi la comédie. Après quinze ans de vie commune et trente-quatre créations, Yvonne Printemps, professionnellement comblée, quitte Sacha Guitry pour Pierre Fresnay. Amants terribles, ils ont emporté dans la tombe les secrets de leur intimité. Mais il est resté des témoins pour comprendre la comédienne qui a eu la sagesse de renoncer aux planches en 1958 et pour connaître la femme dont les deux armes étaient le flair et la séduction. Elle était travailleuse et volontaire, courageuse et drôle, fidèle à sa façon, absolue, sincère et chaleureuse. Anxieuse et insatisfaite. A jamais indomptable.
The Music Of Francis Poulenc 1899 1963
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Author : Carl B. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1995-10-19
The Music Of Francis Poulenc 1899 1963 written by Carl B. Schmidt and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10-19 with Music categories.
The name of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was first brought to prominence in the 1920s as a member of Les Six, a group of young French composers encouraged by Satie and Cocteau. His subsequent fame spread well beyond France, and he is coming to be regarded as one of this century's most significant composers. His compositions are heard constantly in concert halls the world over, and numerous recordings, including complete sets of songs and piano music, have been released. Books, articles and more than a dozen doctoral dissertations have discussed his music. Carl Schmidt's catalogue of Poulenc's works represents the first comprehensive attempt to list an oeuvre which numbers approximately 185 compositions written from his teenage years until his death at the age of 63. The Catalogue indentifies a number of unpublished works, and adds a small group of compositions to his musical canon for the first time. Each work, whether complete or unfinished, published or unpublished, is described fully. Catalogue entries list and describe all known printed editions (including reprints) and manuscript copies of each work. In addition, they provide detailed compositional histories based on numerous letters, documents, and press accounts, many of which have not been published previously. Russian interest in Poulenc's music, manifested in press runs exceeding one million copies, is also revealed for the first time.
The Marriage Between Perfume And The Lyric Stage
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Author : Mary May Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-09-22
The Marriage Between Perfume And The Lyric Stage written by Mary May Robertson and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-22 with Music categories.
“But what is this scent of balmy air? What this ray of light in my tomb? I seem to see an angel, amid a scent of roses” sings Florestan in Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera. The role of scents, smells, fragrances, and odours in opera has long been neglected, just as how much opera and its stars have influenced the world of perfumery from the nineteenth century to the present day. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the relationship between opera, perfumes, and their respective protagonists in order to map out the previously undiscussed connection between the two. Through compelling close readings of librettos and rigorous research through thousands of bottles of perfume, the reader will come to appreciate and recognise the influences and exchanges between operas and perfumes and their ultimate marriage in the previously unrecognised genre of Operatic Perfumes, which is to say, perfumes named after operas, composers, and their divas.
The Letters Of No L Coward
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Author : Noël Coward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-31
The Letters Of No L Coward written by Noël Coward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that there is.' Stephen Fry 'Precise, witty, remarkably observed and gloriously English' Dame Judi Dench 'Barry Day's analysis is both perceptive and irresistible' Lord Richard Attenborough With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a war-time spy(!), brought him into close contact with the great, the good and the merely ambitious in film, literature and politics.With letters to and from the likes of: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examination of the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving and often surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait of a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.
Dress Vanity Fair
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Dress Vanity Fair written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with categories.
Operetta
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Author : Richard Traubner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-06
Operetta written by Richard Traubner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06 with Music categories.
Considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon.