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Kyra Kyralina
The first volume in a series of volumes indebted to Oriental modes of storytelling, such as found in The Thousand and One Nights, Kyra Kyralina is a book of great charm and profound insight into the human condition.
Walter Legge
For the dedicated record collector and music lover this discography provides invaluable information about Legge himself and a crucial periodin recording history, from his issuance of discs on a subscripion basis tothe creation of the Philharmonia Orchestra to the systematic recording of the greatest musical artists of the world. Alan Sanders provides session-by-session data on works prepared under Legge's supervision, with the date of the recording, the location, the name(s) of the artist(s), and even the progress of the recording schedules. Also provided are serial and matrix numbers, the takes, catalog numbers, secondary issue numbers, and other data. To afford easy access to all this info...
La Scala West
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Ronald L. Davis tells the story of a regional opera company that won international recognition with dazzling productions during its first season and sustained the attention of opera lovers around the world for nearly two decades. In the late 1950s in Dallas, Texas, general manager Lawrence Kelly and artistic director Nicola Rescigno envisioned gorgeous music for the eye and ear. Their intent was to breathe new life into the traditional Italian and French repertory and to spice it with offerings of American premieres of lesser-known works. Although the fledgling company's seasons were short, they were "production for production" of a quality to match those...
Strange Child of Chaos
This is the fascinating story of one of America's greatest singers, Norman Treigle (1927-1975). Born in the South's most exotic city, New Orleans, he was acclaimed as one of history's finest singing-actors, specialising in rôles that evoked villainy and terror, and was a resident star at the adventurous New York City Opera. In this, the first biography of the legendary bass-baritone, you will read of his colourful life in New Orleans, his self-destructive life-style, the seeming contradictions in his complex character, his passion for the race-track, his enormous voice and emaciated physique, his electrifying stage-presence and astonishing acting ability, why he never sang at the Metropolit...
Maria Callas
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