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225) Tár
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1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
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This is Volume II of the improved 2nd edition.
There are 6 volumes in all comprising some 900 composers and 40,000 compositions.
Included is the founding and demise of music ensembles, institutions, venues and festivals.
With musicians, performers, conductors, entrepreneurs, educators, administrators, instrument makers, musicologists, music critics and philanthropists part of the broad narrative.
Touring artists in Australia are admitted at the...
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This book, which was first published in 1895, is a wonderful collection of some 300 anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers since time began. In the author's own words, "[I]n the search for what this volume comprises, much material has been examined. I have attempted to cull from the mass of material that came to my notice such anecdotes as have two features,-that of being characteristic of the person referred to, and...
234) Ecstasy: a novel
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"In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era ... Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as "one of the very few magical women that exist." But who was this woman who brought these most...
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The operas of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi are among the greatest achievements of nineteenth century culture and remain at the heart of the opera repertory today. His extraordinary works took the opera world by storm, transforming and dominating the world of opera for over 30 years. Verdi modified the rigid conventions of the bel canto style, which had previously depended on the showcasing of singers at the expense of dramatic values. He changed...
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The Italian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto, influencing the emerging style of late Baroque music. In spite of his widespread popularity today, Vivaldi was largely forgotten after death and his reputation was only re-established in the 1920's. Vivaldi's greatest contribution to the history of classical music was his development of the ritornello form, where recurrent restatements of a refrain...
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