A season of opera : from Orpheus to Ariadne / by Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019

Table of Contents: “…: Lucia di Lammermoor -- Elemental, furious, wholly true : Il trovatore -- The requisite miracle : La traviata -- The whole checkered play of life : La forza del destino -- Melt Egypt into Nile : Aida -- A figure as old as comedy : Falstaff -- The exasperated eagle and the stoic saint : Les troyens -- The sins of Wagner's youth : Rienzi -- Long day's journey into night : Tristan und Isolde -- The making of a musical legend : Palestrina -- The moon is like the moon : Salome -- Genius and morbidezza : Manon Lescaut -- Mists, sails, sounds, and impressions : Pelléas et Mélisande -- It is your turn to speak : Dialogues des Carmélites -- An opera made of songs : Porgy and Bess -- The music wrote itself : Oklahoma! -- Hurry up please its [sic] time.…”
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Broadway musicals : the 101 greatest shows of all time / by Bloom, Ken, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Pal Joey -- Peter Pan -- Phantom of the Opera -- Flops, part 2 -- Porgy and Bess -- Promises, Promises -- Ragtime -- The Red Mill -- Rose-Marie -- T & A, part 2 -- Sally -- 1776 -- She Loves Me -- Show Boat -- Shuffle Along -- The Sound of Music -- South Pacific -- The Student Prince in Heidelberg -- Off Broadway, part 2 -- Sweeney Todd -- Sweet Charity -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- West Side Story -- Great scores from so-so shows, part 2 -- Wonderful Town -- Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 -- Zorba.…”

Gil Evans : out of the cool : his life and music / by Stein Crease, Stephanie

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Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks / by Larson, Jennifer, 1977-

Sportin' life : John W. Bubbles, an American classic / by Harker, Brian

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Disintegrating the Musical : Black Performance and American Musical Film / by Knight, Arthur

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The Singer's musical theatre anthology. a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpte...

Table of Contents: “…: Many a new day ; Out of my dreams / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- 110 in the shade : Old maid / Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones -- Porgy and Bess : Summertime / George Gershwin -- Roberta : Smoke gets in your eyes / Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach -- Show boat : Bill ; Can't help lovin' dat man / Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II -- The sound of music : Climb ev'ry mountain / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- Street scene : Somehow I never could believe ; What good would the moon be? …”

Music, American made : essays in honor of John Graziano /

Table of Contents: “…Everett ; The Jenkins Orphanage band and Porgy and Bess / Wayne D. Shirley -- Part 5. Traditional music and art music adaptations. …”

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Table of Contents: “…, K. 583 / composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Act I, Scene V; No. 6: Aria 'Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio' from 'Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492' / composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Alma grande e nobil core from 'Aria, K. 578' / composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Giunse alfin il momento - Al desio di chi t'adora from 'Le Nozze di Figaro', K. 492 / composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / composed by Philip Glass -- Concerto Grosso No. 5 / composed by Alfred Schnittke -- Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330 / composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 / composed by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin -- Kinderszenen, Op. 15 / composed by Robert Schumann -- Rhapsody in Blue / composed by George Gershwin -- Cuban Overture / composed by George Gershwin -- Porgy and Bess Suite / composed by George Gershwin -- An American in Paris / composed by George Gershwin.…”
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The Red Army Chorus = Choeur de l'Armée rouge.

Table of Contents: “…Rimsky-Korsakov (1:51) -- Porgy and Bess: I got plenty of nothing / G. Gershwin (2:40) -- Granada / Augustin Lara (3:57) -- National anthem of the USSR = Hymne nationale de l'USSR / Alexander Alexandrov (1:47).…”
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Opera in America : a cultural history / by Dizikes, John, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Chicago and Samuel Insull ; Otto Kahn and the Metropolitan ; After the crash ; The Nordic winged victory ; Four saints and Porgy and Bess ; New Deal America in peace and war -- Interlude : Milton Cross -- Act six : Empire, 1950- The new audience ; Marian Anderson ; New York opera ; The new places ; The song of the thrush ; Three operatic monuments ; Sarah Caldwell presents ; Mozart in America -- Finale : Maria Callas.…”
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Soloists & conductors

Table of Contents: “…Preludio/Bach (Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano) -- Etude in A minor, op. 25 no. 11 "Winter wind"/Chopin (Josef Lhevinne, piano) -- Jalousie--Tango tzigone/Gade (Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, conductor) -- Violoncello concerto no. 2 in E minor, op. 30--II: Lento-Andante tranquillo (abridged)/Herbert (Emanuel Feuermann, violoncello) -- Schon Rosmarin/Kreisler (William Primrose, viola) -- Serenade for strings in C, op. 48--II: Waltz/Tchaikovsky (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor) -- Beatrice et Benedict-Overture/Berlioz (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, conductor) -- Messiah, part II, no. 44--Hallelujah Chorus/Handel (Robert Shaw Chorale) -- The swan (from Carnival of the animals)/Saint-Saens (Gregor Piatigorsky, violoncello) -- Don Pasquale-overture/Donizetti (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, conductor) -- Mazurka in A minor, op. 7 no. 2/Chopin (William Kapell, piano) -- Cancion de cuna (Cradle song)/Iturbi (Jose Iturbi, piano) -- Disc 2: Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 45/Chopin (Arthur Rubinstein, piano) -- Fantasy on themes from Bizet's Carmen/Horowitz (Vladimir Horowitz, piano) -- Fantasia in C minor, BWV 906/Bach (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord) -- Coppelia--Prelude, Mazurka/Delibes (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, conductor) -- Colas Breugnon, op. 24: overture/Kabelevsky (Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Fritz Reiner, conductor) -- Porgy and Bess: Summertime/Gershwin (Jascha Heifetz, violin) -- A woman is a sometime thing -- Five Bagatelles--no. 1, Allegro/Walton (Julian Bream, guitar) -- I vespri siciliano--Ballet: The four seasons: winter/Verdi (New Philharmonia Orchestra, James Levine, conductor) -- L'Isle joyeuse/ Debussy (Van Cliburn, piano) -- Pan and the birds (from La flute de Pan)/Mouquet (James Galway, flute) -- Rosamunde, D 797-Ballet music no. …”

The cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960 /

Table of Contents: “…Goldstein -- 'He is a cripple an' needs my love' : Porgy and Bess as Cold War propaganda / David Monod.…”
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Broadway, the American musical.

Rolling along in song : a chronological survey of American Negro music, with eighty-seven arrangements of Negro songs,. by Johnson, J. Rosamond 1873-1954

Table of Contents: “…-- Short'nin' Bread -- De Camptown Races -- Po' Boy -- Yonder Comes the High Sheriff -- Bird in a Cage -- Been in de Pen So Long -- Seven Long Years in State Prison -- The Midnight Special -- He's A-Choppin' in de New Groun' -- John Henry -- Casey Jones -- Drivin' Steel (Hammer Man Song) -- Don't Let Yo' Watch Run Down -- Florida Cakewalk --Watermelons -- Sweet Oranges - Chimney Sweeper -- Blueberries --The Broom Man -- My Baby's in Memphis, Layin' Aroun' -- Stagolee -- Stagolee Done Kill de Bully -- Honey, Take One on Me -- Satisfied --Them Lonesome Moanin' Blues --De Chain Gang: Gwine Down Dat Lonesome Road -- De Chain Gang: Water Me from de Lime Rock --De Chain Gang: Workin' on de Chain Gang -- De Chain Gang: One Mo' Mile to Go -- De Chain Gang: Rainbow Roun' My Shoulder -- De Chain Gang: You Gotta Bus' Dis Rock -- De Chain Gang: Back to de Jail -- De Chain Gang: Dis Am de Hammer -- Excerpt from George Gershwin's American Opera 'Porgy and Bess' -- Li'l' Gal (Negro Love Song).…”
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The book of Broadway : the 150 definitive plays and musicals / by Grode, Eric

Table of Contents: “…-- On the town -- Our town -- Pal Joey -- The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade -- Peter pan (play) -- The phantom of the opera -- The Philadelphia story -- Picnic -- Pippin -- The pirates of Penzance -- The playboy of the western world -- Porgy and Bess -- Private lives -- The producers -- Promises, promises -- Pygmalion -- Ragtime -- A raisin in the sun -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- 1776 -- She loves me -- Show boat -- The show-off -- Shuffle along -- Six degrees of separation -- The skin of our teeth -- Sleuth -- The sound of music -- South Pacific -- Spring awakening -- A streetcar named desire -- The student prince in Heidelberg -- Sweeney Todd -- The time of your life -- Tobacco road -- Torch song triology -- A trip to Chinatown -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Very good Eddie -- Waiting for Godot -- Waiting for Lefty -- Watch your step -- West Side story -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? …”
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Literary sisters : Dorothy West and her circle : a biography of the Harlem Renaissance / by Mitchell, Verner D., 1957-

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Charleston and the Great Depression : a documentary history, 1929-1941 /

Table of Contents: “…Roosevelt, 27 September 1935; DuBose Heyward, "Porgy and Bess Return on Wings of Song," October 1935; Elijah J. …”
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The Book of Broadway / by Grode, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Pal joeythe persecution and assassination of jean-paul marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of charenton under the direction of the marquis de sade; peter pan (play); peter pan (musical); the phantom of the opera; the philadelphia story; picnic; pippin; the pirates of penzance; the playboy of the western world; porgy and bess; private lives; the producers; promises, promises; pygmalion; ragtime; a raisin in the sun; rent; rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead; 1776; she loves me; show boat; the show-off; shuffle along; six degrees of separation; the skin of our teeth; sleuth.…”
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The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945 : Propaganda, Myth and Reality /

Table of Contents: “…Karnes 13 The music of Čiurlionis in the context of resistance and Lithuanian national identity during the Nazi occupation (1941-1944) Vytautė Markeliūnienė14 Power through music: strategies of the German occupation authorities in Estonia Kristel Pappel and Anu KolarSection 5 The limits of tolerance 15 Getting away with Cultural Bolshevism: the first European performance of Porgy and Bess in Copenhagen, 1943 Michael Fjeldsoe16 Music criticism in the Swedish Nazi daily press: the case of Dagsposten Henrik RosengrenSection 6 Damaged careers 17 (Re)visiting the (Jewish) archive of Gideon Klein -- Terezin, 1941-1944 David Fligg18 Eugeniusz Morawski: life under the Nazi occupation of Warsaw Oskar ŁapetaSection 7 Symphonies of war and resistance 19 Religious patriotism and grotesque ridicule: responses to Nazi oppression in Pavel Haas's unfinished war-time Symphony Martin Čurda20 Paul von Klenau's Ninth Symphony: a case study Niels Krabbe21 Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony: music of endurance David Fanning and Michelle AssaySection 8 Complex and uneasy legacies 22 Listening in the Grey Zone Michael Beckerman23 The marketing of backstories: approaches to the legacies of music composed in fraught circumstances Mirjam Frank24 Nazism, music and Tyrolean identity Kurt Drexel25 Bartok against the Nazis: the Italian premieres of Bluebeard's Castle (1938) and The Miraculous Mandarin (1942) Nicolo Palazzetti26 Contemporary music and cultural politics in Switzerland during World War II: between neutrality and nationalism Simeon Thompson…”
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