Explore the musical wonders of Europe This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Selected on the basis of international reputation, architectural appeal, historical and cultural significance and performance quality, Europe's foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, offering concise venue descriptions, directions and historical information, 'Anthem Guide to the Opera, Concert Halls and Classical Music Venues of Europe' is essential reading...
Explore the musical wonders of Europe This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Selected on the basis of interna...
There was never such a thing as true freedom of speech. In the past, in order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspaper, a radio or a TV station. And everywhere you had to get past the editors. Only members of the elite ever did - the articulate and well-behaved 'representatives' of ordinary people. But those ordinary people hardly, if ever, had a chance to speak publicly and freely.
Until now. The age of blogging has begun. The internet revolution has given us all a chance to be irreverent, blasphemous and ungrammatical in public. We can reveal...
There was never such a thing as true freedom of speech. In the past, in order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspap...
'Action Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran' presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and present, from around the world, working in a variety of genres and budgets and production environments from major studios to indie and DIY. The result is a vibrant group portrait of the filmmaking art, a kind of festival in words that explores everything from the enormous creative and personal satisfactions of filmmaking to the challenges and frustrations that range from meddlesome studio heads to state censorship. These articulate auteurs...
'Action Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran' presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and ...
'Action Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran' presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and present, from around the world, working in a variety of genres and budgets and production environments from major studios to indie and DIY. The result is a vibrant group portrait of the filmmaking art, a kind of festival in words that explores everything from the enormous creative and personal satisfactions of filmmaking to the challenges and frustrations that range from meddlesome studio heads to state censorship. These articulate auteurs...
'Action Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran' presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and ...
The book presents the text of Edward FitzGerald s three main versions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in an easily accessible form, together with a non-technical commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem. The reader is given a chance to evaluate each of FitzGerald s alternative texts as a whole and to examine how the poet presented his texts to the public and annotated the verses. The commentary discusses the lives and work of Khayyam and FitzGerald, and recounts the fascinating story the publication of the Rubaiyat and its rise to great fame and popularity, including a...
The book presents the text of Edward FitzGerald s three main versions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in an easily accessible form, together with a...
