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...

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.

Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered Mahler more than 40 years earlier, when he served as the composer's assistant conductor in Hamburg. He worked with Mahler again at the Vienna Opera, and after the composer's...

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.

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...

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....

David Bowie was a master of artifice and reinvention. In that same spirit, illustrator María Hesse and writer Fran Ruiz have created a vivid retelling of the life of David Robert Jones, from his working-class childhood to glam rock success to superstardom, concluding with the final recording sessions after his cancer diagnosis.Narrated from the rock star's point of view, Bowie colorfully renders both the personal and the professional turning points...

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), el "padre de la sinfonía", es uno de los compositores clásicos más celebrados de la historia, y al mismo tiempo protagonista de una biografía casi desconocida para el lector en español. La fama de Haydn fue tal que, ya en vida, tres escritores emprendieron la tarea de narrar su biografía. De ellos, fue Georg August Griesinger el que más se acercó al retrato total del artista y el hombre; en las breves páginas de...

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...