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This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
Issues for 1914-67 include "Notable productions and important revivals of the London stage from the earliest times."
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
Alfred Sutro (1863-1933) was a British playwright and translator who has been all but forgotten by literary history. The subtitle of this biography refers to what Sutro considered to be one of his best plays. Sawin is a professor emeritus of English, U. of Colorado. Annotation copyright Book News, I
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Illustrated throughout with many of Van Gogh's best loved works including 'Orchard In Blossom' and 'Wheat Field With Cypresses', this title contains new research on the early British collectors of paintings by this artist.
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Arranged alphabetically from Alvar Aalto to Eva Zumwalt, each author biography includes personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, and more.