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Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
ISBN: 9780226420684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world's greatest composers. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), and Benjamin Britten (1913-76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdi's Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard...
Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectation...
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Opera: The Art of Dying
ISBN: 9780674335615 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Can an act of the imagination, in the form of opera, take us the rest of the way? Might opera, an art form steeped in death, teach us how to die, as this provocative work suggests? In "Opera: The Art of Dying" a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts. Contrasting the experience of mortality in opera to that in... Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Can an act of the... |
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