Télécharger le livre :  Pick a Pocket Or Two
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From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is the story of the British musical: where it began and how it developed. In Pick a Pocket Or Two, acclaimed author Ethan...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  The New Book of Opera Anecdotes
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Building on the long-established success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing into view the new corps of major singers that arose after the first book's publication in 1985 -- artists such as...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-08-04

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Télécharger le livre :  On Streisand
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She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-04-11

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Télécharger le livre :  All That Jazz
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In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (two of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-06-01

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Télécharger le livre :  When Broadway Went to Hollywood
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When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  On Sondheim
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In On Sondheim, renowned author Ethan Mordden takes the reader on a tour of Stephen Sondheim's work, arguing for the importance and appeal of the composer-lyricist in American theater and, even more, in American culture. Over the course of eighteen shows, Mordden...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-11-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Anything Goes
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Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-08-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Anything Goes
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Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-08-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Beautiful Mornin'
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"Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline form its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a formula for the assembly of spare...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1999-10-07

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