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Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early
history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera. The
premiere of Peter Grimes on 7 June 1945 announced the emergence of
the first great composer of opera in English since Purcell.
Surviving documents offer evidence of the complex interaction of
differing ideas about the possible shape and content of the new
work, most notably the composition draft, which these essays are
particularly concerned to illuminate. They juxtapose historic
material with fresh studies: three items written by members of
theteam involved in the 1945 production are set alongside
specially-commissioned articles, with the three-fold intention of
presenting the views of some of the creators of the opera,
outlining the work's early history, and offeringcontemporary
perspectives on its historical context and its message.Professor
PAUL BANKS is Research Development Fellow at the Royal College of
Music.Contributors: PAUL BANKS, PHILIP BRETT, BENJAMIN BRITTEN,
ERIC CROZIER, DONALDMITCHELL, PETER PEARS, PHILIP REED, ROSAMUND
STRODE. Packed away in its pages is a very large amount of new
information. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A fitting tribute to the
opera's enduring international stature, and undoubtedly [a]
significant achievement in Britten studies. MUSIC AND LETTERS
Without an understanding of the conflicts of Mahler's youth one
cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies
and song cycles of his later years. Available again for a new
generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell's famous study of the
composer's early life and music was greeted as a major advance on
its first appearance in 1958. Revised and updated in the early
1980s, thispaperback edition includes a new introduction by the
author to bring this classic work once again to the forefront of
Mahler studies. From his birth in Bohemia, then part of the mighty
Austro-Hungarian empire, to a surveyof his early works, many now
lost, Gustav Mahler: The Early Years forms an indispensable prelude
to the period of the great compositions. The conflicts which came
to mark Mahler's music and personality had their beginningsin his
childhood and youth. Without understanding the territorial, social
and familial conflicts of this time one cannot truly appreciate the
impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later
years. DONALD MITCHELL was born in 1925. Two composers have been
central to his writings on music, Gustav Mahler and Benjamin
Britten. His three studies of Mahler, The Early Years (1958), The
Wunderhorn Years (1975), and Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death
(1985), are among the enduring monuments of postwar Mahler
literature. He was founder Professor of Music at the University of
Sussex (1971-76), was visiting Professor atKing's College, London,
and is currently a visiting Professor at the Universities of Sussex
and York.
A member of the USA's stellar 1984 Olympic boxing team, Paul Banke
then scaled the heights as a professional to become world champion
in 1990. Unfortunately, throughout his career, he was at the mercy
of his secret mistress - drugs. As part of the celebrity
slipstream, Banke often had free access to heroin, crystal meth and
cocaine. Best remembered for his epic trilogy with Daniel Zaragoza,
drugs overtook him and Banke soon became a forgotten champion.
Shortly after retiring in 1993, he was homeless and destitute.
Having not eaten for three days, Banke found himself lying in a
dumpster in Vegas, ecstatic at finding a partially consumed
cheeseburger. Arrested for grand theft auto in 1995 he was urged in
jail to take an HIV test, due to sharing needles. He had contracted
full-blown AIDS. Miraculously, after three decades of drug abuse,
Banke turned his life around in September 2014 and became clean and
sober. Now once again warmly embraced by the boxing fraternity, he
shares his story to inspire and deter those on a similar path.
Facsimile of the composition draft of Peter Grimes, showing
Britten's compositional method; companion volume containing essays
on its history and significance. Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's
first opera, established his stature as a composer, marked a
turning point in the fortunes of English opera, and conquered
operatic stages around the world. Though its setting and music
reflect Britten's greatlove for his native East Anglia, the
inspiration for the work was a chance encounter with the poetry of
George Crabbe while Britten and the tenor Peter Pears (who
eventually created the title role) were stayingin California in
1941; they made a number of draft scenarios while they waited for a
passage to England, and after their return Montagu Slater was asked
to write the libretto. The full score was completed by February
1945. The single document that reveals most about the work's
creative history is the composition draft in which the composer
wrestled with text and music, gradually fashioning the opera into
its final version. The colour facsimile of this fascinating
manuscript is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of
its first production. It is accompanied by a commentary volume
containing a series of essays on the work's history and its
contemporary significance by leading Britten scholars, together
with a brief note on the work by PETER PEARS(apparently never
before published) and an account of the first production by the
late ERIC CROZIER, who directed it. The volume is illustrated with
colour reproductions of some of the original costume designs by
Kenneth Green, his portrait of BenjaminBritten, and contemporary
black and white photographs.
Handling and archiving data should be done in a highly professional
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However, these institutions have different requirements relating to
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A collection of essays which explore the cultural background and
creative evolution of this once-overlooked work. This volume is
based on a selection of papers presented during a study course
devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced
Musical Studies in 1991. Glorianahas been a source of controversy
since its premiere as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953.
It was planned as a national opera of broad appeal by its authors,
Benjamin Britten and William Plomer, but, despite wide coverage in
the media, the opera failed toestablish itself in the repertoire
until a new production in 1966 revealed it to be a powerful and
stageworthy work. In recent years it has attracted an increasing
amount of scholarly attention. This volume offers essays byROBERT
HEWISON, PHILIP REED, ANTONIA MALLOY, DONALD MITCHELL and PETER
EVANS which explore the opera's cultural background, the early
stages of its creative evolution, the first critical responses, and
various aspects of the workitself: these are supplemented by a list
of source materials for the opera and the works derived from it,
and an extensive bibliography.
Handling and archiving data should be done in a highly professional
and quality-controlled manner. For academic and research libraries,
it is required to know how to document data and support
traceability, as well as to make it reusable and productive.
However, these institutions have different requirements relating to
the archiving and reusability of data. Therefore, a comprehensive
source of information is required to understand data access and
management within these organizations. Research Data Access and
Management in Modern Libraries is a critical scholarly resource
that delves into innovative data management strategies and strategy
implementation in library settings and provides best practices to
stakeholders using the latest tools and technology. It further
explores concepts such as research data management, data access,
data preservation, building document and data institutional
repositories, applications of Web 2.0 tools, mobile technology
applications in data access, and conducting information literacy
programs. This book is ideal for librarians, information
specialists, research scholars, students, IT managers, computer
scientists, policymakers, educators, and academic administrators.
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