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| Author | : John Evans |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2010-10-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0571274641 |
Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. Journeying Boy is a selection of his diaries that offer the reader an unseen insight into this complex man. Encompassing the years 1928-1938, they explore some key periods of Britten's life - his early compositions, his education first under composer Frank Bridge and then at the Royal College of Music, an unhappy but productive period studying under John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his reluctant and often painful process of parting from the warm, safe environment of his family home and his beloved mother. The diaries cast light on an often misrepresented musician whose technique, originality and musical prowess have entranced audiences for generations and who continues to inspire composers and musicians around the world.
| Author | : Michael Innes |
| Publisher | : House of Stratus |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2010-02-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0755118138 |
Humphrey Paxton has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor, Mr Thewless, suggests he might be overdoing it somewhat. But when a man is found shot dead Thewless is plunged into a nightmare world of lies, kidnapping and murder - and grave matters of national security.
| Author | : Mark Bostridge |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2013-06-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1441151869 |
2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event. Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song. Biographically, this book moves on beyond the relationship with Peter Pears and the salacious speculation about his infatuation with various boys, to a consideration of Britten's experience as a homosexual man living in a largely homophobic society. Another area here which is often overlooked is the view of Britten from outside the British Isles - the USA and Italy, where his operas have long been extremely popular.
| Author | : Harold Bloom |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : 1604138076 |
- A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study- A useful chronology of the writer's life- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.
| Author | : John Bridcut |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2011-04-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0571260926 |
Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, 'this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it'. Since making the film, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. The documentary Britten's Children won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2005 Award for Creative Communication: 'this serious and beautiful film explored one aspect of a composer's life in great depth. Avoiding the temptation of sensationalism, Britten's Children was imaginatively researched and both touching and revelatory'.
| Author | : Ludovic Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2015-07-13 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1784972738 |
Train travel always leads to great adventures; the countryside, like a moving picture show, unrolls itself before one's eyes. One is transported to the wild places of earth – forest, mountain, desert; and always there is the counterpoint between life within the train and life without. Train travel, being both constrictred in time and space, magnifies character, intensifies relationships, unites the disparate. Ordinary people become extra-ordinary, larger then life; and in the knowledge that they will not meet again, expansive, confiding, intimate. A BOOK OF RAILWAY JOURNEYS is a collection of Ludovic Kennedy's favourite train-journey literature. The anthology takes us on a round-the-world tour, through 155 years of train travel. It conjures up grand old trains and historic journeys; recalls horrific wartime adventures and spectacular crashes; and dwells on the romance of rail travel – its most unlikely encounters and unexpected events.
| Author | : Paul Negri |
| Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2014-11-10 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0486801233 |
Great Short PoemsThis outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others. Includes three selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias." Songs for the Open RoadCollection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, and many others. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The New Colossus" and "The Railway Train."
| Author | : G. Harvey |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1986-09-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1349183644 |
| Author | : Various |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 607 |
| Release | : 2021-11-05 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
This book was an anthology of poems and prose edited by an award-winning author Walter John de la Mare, an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. It has a frame story and can be read on several levels. The book was first published in 1923 and was a remarkable success. Alongside children's literature, it includes a selection of the leading Georgian poets (from de la Mare's perspective).
| Author | : Michael L. Klein |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0253006449 |
This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century. Contributors challenge the broadly held opinion that the loss of tonality in some music after 1900 also meant the loss of narrative in that music. To the contrary, the editors and essayists in this book demonstrate how experiments in approaching narrative in other media, such as fiction and cinema, suggested fresh possibilities for musical narrative, which composers were quick to exploit. The new conceptions of time, narrative voice, plot, and character that accompanied these experiments also had a significant impact on contemporary music. The repertoire explored in the collection ranges across a wide variety of genres and includes composers from Charles Ives and the Pet Shop Boys to Thomas Adès and Dmitri Shostakovich.
