Samuel Barber : his life and legacy / by Pollack, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Samuel Barber and His Family -- A Musical Education -- Personal Matters: Early Years -- Other Formative Experiences -- Early Works through 1932 -- More Adventures at Home and Abroad, 1933-1939 -- Music for a Scene from Shelley and One Day of Spring -- Songs and Choruses, 1934-1940 -- The First Symphony and the String Quartet -- The Adagio for Strings and the First Essay -- The Violin Concerto and the Second Essay -- Wartime Service -- The Second Symphony and Excursions -- The Capricorn Concerto, Horizon, and the Cello Concerto -- Barber and His Contemporaries -- Medea -- Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and "Nuvoletta" -- The Piano Sonata and Mélodies passagères -- Personal Matters: Later Years -- A Composer's Life -- Souvenirs and the Hermit Songs -- Prayers of Kierkegaard, Adventure, and Summer Music -- Vanessa -- From the Nocturne to Die Natali -- The Piano Concerto and Andromache's Farewell -- The Creation of Antony and Cleopatra -- Antony and Cleopatra in Performance -- From the Chorale for Ascension Day to The Lovers -- From Fadograph of a Yestern Scene to the Canzonetta.…”
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Dancing revelations : Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture / by DeFrantz, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE: Revelations 1962 -- Why Revelations Worked -- BREAK: Black Modernism -- Situating Revelations in African American Cultural Life -- TWO: Early Dances -- Ailey's Childhood: Race Matters -- BREAK: Unquenchable Racial Desire -- Blues Suite -- Ailey's Early Dances -- Hermit Songs -- THREE: Early Company -- Early Years in New York -- Early Residencies -- Southeast Asia Tour -- BREAK: "Official" African American Culture -- Riedaiglia -- FOUR: Revelations II: 1969 -- BREAK: Versioning -- Multiracial Concert Dance -- Revelations 1975 -- FIVE: Touring, Touring, Touring -- Quintet -- Swelling Popularity -- BREAK: Jazz Dance -- Flowers -- The Popular Audience -- BREAK: No Exit from Racism -- SIX: Reflecting a Spectrum of Experience -- Masekela Language -- The Lark Ascending -- Hidden Rites -- SEVEN: Other Dances -- Feast of Ashes -- BREAK: Black Dancer, White Dance -- The River -- EIGHT: Ailey Celebrates Ellington -- The Ellington Connection -- BREAK: Heroes -- Ailey Celebrates Ellington -- Pas de "Duke" -- Ellingtonia -- NINE: Gender and Spectatorship -- Cry -- Love Songs -- Masked Spectatorship: Ailey's Representation of Sexuality -- BREAK: Sex -- Streams -- BREAK: Black Atlantic Dance -- TEN: Later Dances -- Memoria -- Au Bord du Precipice -- Survivors -- BREAK: Alvin Ailey, Public and Private -- ELEVEN: Concluding Moves -- The Ailey after Ailey -- Revelations 2003 -- APPENDIX: Choreography by Alvin Ailey -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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