In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director in the history of the American theater (22 Tony Awards and counting), looks back over his 70-year (and counting!) career. Featuring original material from Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre, Prince provides a fresh, new perspective on his writing from the vantage point of today. Sense of Occasion gives an insider's recollection...

Manuel de Falla, born in Cádiz, Andalusia, was the founding father of twentieth-century Spanish music. Following the Romanticism of Albéniz and Granados, Falla came to be appreciated as a true representative of the modern age. His operas, ballets, orchestral music, songs and instrumental works have been acknowledged internationally as being among the greatest artistic contributions to Spanish culture. His creative genius profoundly influenced the...

The miraculous triumvirate of 1685 (Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, all born that year) made a curious threesome. The German Handel went to Italy and became the greatest composer of Italian operas, Bach stayed at home to be outshone by his son, while Scarlatti fled Italy to escape his father's fame and became Spain's greatest undercover flamenco guitarist − all without leaving the keyboard. Secretive to a fault, Scarlatti's life is as elusive as his...

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the most exciting and provocative composers at work in the world today. His Eight Songs for a Mad King set the dizzying pace for Britain's 1960s avant-garde, and the recent Naxos Quartets bear witness to his continuing innovative spirit. Audio samples are contained in the text: just tap to listen while you read.

Unlike most books on rock music, Music of Yes does not focus on personalities, but instead on musical structures, lyrical vision, and cultural and historical context. Bill Martin situates one of the most creative groups from the progressive rock period, Yes, within the utopian ideals of the sixties and the experimental trend in rock music initiated by the Beatles and taken up by groups such as King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and others. Working...

Primer libro didáctico relativo al Book Scoring, el innovador sector para compositores que transforma las novelas en álbumes originales de bandas sonoras (original soundtrack álbum). Giuseppe Centonze, compositor, productor e ingeniero de sonido de la compañía Age Of Chronicles Music Productions, ha escrito y desarrollado este libro a petición de varios compositores absortos a emprender un recorrido en este nuevo sector.

Les dix opéras de Wagner inscrits au répertoire mettent en musique des légendes médiévales et des mythes germaniques ou scandinaves: de la trahison de Lohengrin à l'hymne à l'amour que chante Tristan à Isolde, en passant par l'engloutissement des dieux dans la Tétralogie et la rédemption de Parsifal. Mais le défenseur de « l'œuvre d'art de l'avenir » est également très préoccupé des principes poétiques qui gouvernent leur création....

Un peculiar análisis histórico y estético del mejor grupo de la historia. Álbumes, efemérides, cumpleaños o conciertos relacionados con los Beatles son motivo de íntimo júbilo y celebración casi cada día del año. Y de entre todos ellos destaca el acontecimiento más importante, el decisivo, el imprescindible, del que se ha celebrado hace poco su 60º aniversario. Y no es otro que el día en que se conocieron Paul McCartney y John Lennon...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is felt by many people to be the greatest composer who ever lived. Dominated and shaped by a highly intelligent but frustrated and ambitious father, his story sees the development of a unique genius, from precocious and often endearing childhood to liberated fulfilment, unexpected poverty as money slipped through his fingers, and a tragically early death. Generously illustrated by Mozart's music, from his fifth to his final...

Pink Floyd - The Music And The Mystery is the ultimate illustrated discography of Pink Floyd. From their very first single Arnold Layne to the most recent special editions of their ground-breaking mid-seventies albums, this is an album-by-album, track-by-track catalogue of every song ever released by The Pink Floyd! Includes: • A Chronology of key events in the life of the great progressive rock band • Separate sections on compilation albums...