The Secrets of a Savoyard

The Secrets of a Savoyard
Author: Henry A. Lytton
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"The Secrets of a Savoyard" penned by Henry A. Lytton provides a charming and personal glimpse into the life and experiences of a Savoyard. With wit and warmth, Lytton's narrative captures the essence of being a Savoyard and the cultural nuances that define this group. From anecdotes to reflections, the author's engaging storytelling invites readers into a world that is both nostalgic and illuminating.

The Secrets of a Savoyard

The Secrets of a Savoyard
Author: Henry Lytton
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2015-05-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781512026375

"The Secrets of a Savoyard" from Henry Lytton. English actor and singer (1865-1936).

The Secrets of a Savoyard

The Secrets of a Savoyard
Author: Lytton Henry A
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781318030262

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Secret Life of the Savoy

The Secret Life of the Savoy
Author: Olivia Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1643137395

The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel’s founders, told through three generations—and one hundred years—of glamour and high society. For the gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and as a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five-foot high birthday cake. In three generations, the D'Oyly Carte family and London's Savoy Hotel pioneered the idea of the luxury hotel and the modern theater, propelled Gilbert and Sullivan to lasting stardom, made Oscar Wilde a transatlantic celebrity, inspired a P. G. Wodehouse series, and popularized early jazz, electric lights, and Art Deco. Following the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel through three generations of the D'Oyly Carte family, The Secret Life of the Savoy brings to life the extraordinary cultural legacy of the most famous hotel in the world.

The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan

The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
Author: Ian Bradley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1284
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199392439

Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a single-volume comprehensive compendium, hailed widely as "easily the best annotated Gilbert & Sullivan available" (Gayden Wren, New York Times) was published by Oxford University Press in 1996. This brand new 20th anniversary edition includes Thespis, Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration which is now being increasingly performed, despite the loss of the vocal and orchestral scores. It also features a completely new introduction, reflecting on the state of Gilbert and Sullivan nearly 150 years after the pair began their legendary collaboration, and new annotations addressing recent performance history, newly discovered 'lost' songs and dialogue, and, for the first time, Gilbert and Sullivan references in contemporary popular culture. Scholars, performers, and fans are sure to rejoice in this indispensable companion to the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire, newly updated for the present day.

Book of Musical Anecdotes

Book of Musical Anecdotes
Author: Norman Lebrecht
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1985-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0029187109

A collection of anecdotes about great composers and performers, as told by themselves, their friends and loved ones, and their colleagues; arranged chronologically by date of birth, from approximately 991 to 1928.

Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers

Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers
Author: Ian Bradley
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-07-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0334049938

Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas. Sullivan was regarded as the nation's leading composer of sacred oratorios on a par with Mendelssohn and Brahms. Ian Bradley provides the first detailed, comprehensive, critical study and review of Sullivan's church and sacred music.

Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts

Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts
Author: Claire Mabilat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351555553

Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential. The author uses this theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering in order to analyse primary source materials, and in conjunction with musicological, literary and art theories, thus explores ways in which ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between different genres and artists. Part I, The Musical Stage, discusses elements of the libretti of popular musical stage works in this period, and the occasionally contradictory ways in which 'racial' Others was represented through text and music; a particular focus is the depiction of 'Oriental' women and ideas of sexuality. Through examination of this collection of libretti, the ways in which the writers of these works filter and romanticize the changing intellectual ideas of this era are explored. Part II, Works of Fiction, is a close study of the works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, using other examples of popular fiction by his contemporary writers as contextualizing material, with the primary concern being to investigate how music is utilized in popular fiction to represent Other non-Europeans and in the creation of orientalized gender constructions. Part III, Visual Culture, is an analysis of images of music and the 'Orient' in examples of British 'high art', illustration and photography, investigating how the musical Other was visualized.