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Squints Through an Opera Glass
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Astor Place Opera House |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044018971846 |
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Strong on Music
Author | : Vera Brodsky Lawrence |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 902 |
Release | : 1995-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0226470105 |
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In this second volume of Strong on Music, Vera Brodsky Lawrence carries into the 1850s her landmark account of the nineteenth-century New York music scene. Using music entries from George Templeton Strong's famous journals—most published here for the first time—as a point of departure, Lawrence provides a vivid portrait of a vibrant musical culture. Each chapter presents one year in the musical life of New York City, with Lawrence's extensive commentary enriched both by excerpts from Strong's diaries and a lavish selection of little-known music criticism and comment from the period. The reviews, written by an often truculent, sometimes venal tribe of music journalists, cover the entire world of music—from opera to barrel organ, salon to saloon. In this New York, operas performed by renowned artists are parodied by blackface minstrels; performances of the Philharmonic Society are drowned by the raucous chatter of flirtatious adolescents, who turn concerts into a noisy singles' hangout; and irate critics trash the first performances of Verdi operas, calling the plots indecent and the scores noisy and unmelodic. In this volatile atmosphere, a native musical culture is born; its whose first faltering efforts are dubiously received, and the first American composers begin to emerge.
The Powell Papers
Author | : Hershel Parker |
Publsiher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810127036 |
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In 1849—months before the term “confidence man” was coined to identify a New York crook—Thomas Powell (1809–1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger, landed in Manhattan. Powell in London had capped a career of grand theft and literary peccadilloes by feigning a suicide attempt and having himself committed to a madhouse, after which he fled England. He had been an intimate of William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, and a crowd of lesser literary folk. Thoughtfully bearing what he presented as a volume of Tennyson with a few trifling revisions in the hand of the poet, Powell was embraced by the slavishly Anglophile New York literary establishment, including a young Herman Melville. In two pot-boilers—The Living Authors of England (1849) and The Living Authors of America (1850)—Powell denounced the most revered American author, Washington Irving, for plagiarism; provoked Charles Dickens to vengeful trans-Atlantic outrage and then panic; and capped his insolence by identified Irving and Melville as the two worst “enemies of the American mind.” For almost four more decades he sniped at Dickens, put words in Melville’s mouth, and survived even the most conscientious efforts to expose him. Long fascinated by this incorrigible rogue, Hershel Parker in The Powell Papers uses a few familiar documents and a mass of freshly discovered material (including a devastating portrait of Powell in a serialized novel) to unfold a captivating tale of skullduggery through the words of great artists and then-admired journalists alike.
Catalogue of Novels Tales and Works in Foreign Languages in the New York Mercantile Library Sept 1 1861
Author | : Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112087486889 |
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Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York
Author | : Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044080251051 |
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Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York
Author | : Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Book catalogs |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433057517132 |
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Catalogue of books in the Mercantile library
Author | : Mercantile library assoc New York |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590673877 |
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Catalogue of the Mercantile library in New York Catalogue of the Cabinet etc
Author | : Mercantile Library Association (NEW YORK) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0023719811 |
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