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Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered
as the composer of the hit show, Florodora. He began writing
popular songs as a teenager, first for blackface and vaudeville
performers, and eventually for more "legitimate" shows and revues.
Florodora (1899), written in collaboration with London's most
fashionable librettist, Owen Hall, was a musical-comedy sensation.
Its combination of the traditional slow love ballads and waltzes
with more rhythmic and long-lined numbers made it a worldwide
success. He continued to compose through the first decade of the
20th century, laying the groundwork for the coming innovations in
British and American musical theater.
Leslie Stuart was one of the leading composers of English-language musical theatre in the years around 1900. His greatest musical comedy success, Floradora, was a hit in America and made him rich. Stuart's subsequent extravagant spending on gambling, drinking and entertaining, as well as his generous gifts to the needy, left him bankrupt. This book sets out the facts of Stuart's life, increases awareness of his achievements, and tells the fascinating story of his rise and fall from fame.
This book takes advantage of new and often surprising biographical
research on the Loder family as a whole and its four main figures,
using them to illustrate aspects of music history in the 19th
century. Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and
his Family illuminates three areas that have recently attracted
much interest: the musical profession, music in the British
provinces and colonies, and English Romantic opera. The Loder
family was pre-eminent in Bath's musical world in the early
nineteenth century. John David Loder (1788-1846) led the theatre
orchestra there from 1807, and later the Philharmonic orchestra and
Ancient Concerts in London; he also wrote the leading instruction
manual on violin playing and taught violin at the Royal Academy of
Music. His son Edward James (1809-65) was a brilliant but
underrated composer of opera, songs, and piano music. George Loder
(1816-68) was a well-known flautist and conductor who made a name
in New York and eventually settled in Adelaide, where he conducted
the Australian premieres of Les Huguenots, Faust, and other
important operas. Kate Fanny Loder (1825-1904) became a successful
pianist and teacher in early Victorian London, and she is only now
getting her due as a composer. This book takes advantage of new and
often surprising biographical research on the Loder family as a
whole and its four main figures. It uses them to illustrate several
aspects of music history: the position of professional musicians in
Victorian society; music in the provinces, especiallyBath and
Manchester; the Victorian opera libretto; orchestra direction;
violin teaching; travelling musicians in the US and Australasia;
opera singers and companies; and media responses to English opera.
The concluding section isan intense analysis and reassessment of
Edward Loder's music, with special emphasis on his greatest work,
the opera Raymond and Agnes. NICHOLAS TEMPERLEY is Professor
Emeritus of Musicology at the University ofIllinois at
Urbana-Champaign and is a leading authority on Victorian music.
CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen Banfield, David Chandler, Andrew Clarke, Liz
Cooper, Therese Ellsworth, David J. Golby, Andrew Lamb, Valerie
Langfield, Alison Mero, Paul Rodmell, Matthew Spring, Julja
Szuster, Nicholas Temperley
From the Parisian operettas of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s to
such current blockbuster musicals as Les Miserables and Rent,
musical theatre has given joy to audiences throughout the world.
This lively book -- an illustrated history of popular musical
theatre -- provides a compendium of fascinating details about the
origins and development of the genre over a century and a half.
Andrew Lamb moves from country to country, showing how different
cultures interpreted and were influenced by different types of
musical theatre. He examines, for example, the development of the
European operetta style from French and Viennese works to such
less-well-known schools as the Spanish zarzuela. He also traces the
evolution of English-language works from the comic operas of
Gilbert and Sullivan and American vaudevilles and extravaganzas to
the latest Broadway and West End musicals. For each significant
work he provides a brief description of the plot and references to
the principal musical numbers. While his focus is on composers,
librettists, and lyricists, he also gives information about
principal performers, directors, and other creative influences. In
a masterful way he conveys the differences between works of the
same composer and works by various composers, and shows how they
reflect changing cultural tastes and musical and dramatic
conventions. Displaying a deep and wide-ranging expertise, this
authoritative book is an invaluable resource for all lovers of the
musical theatre.
How far would you go to spare yourself an eternity in Damnation?
Murdered for his adulterous ways, Vincentius De Cavalieri forged a
twisted pact with the cursed Olympian Priestess Stheno to avoid a
fate worse than Hell. In exchange for immortality, he was tasked
with the retrieval of the mysterious Tyche sword, a weapon with
supernatural and corrupting powers. After 500 years of searching,
he tracks the Tyche to a corrupt Bio-Weapons genius who has used
the sword to craft the ultimate weapon... the Serpent of the Tyche.
From the creator of "Dispatchers - Vengeance of the Dark," the
Serpent of the Tyche draws upon Greek Mythologies and combines them
with modern Science Fiction themes to create a fast paced action
packed thriller.
A circle and five lines. In Adventures with Stickman, our hero
lives on the pages of Percy's notebook. When Percy runs into
obstacles he turns to his pencil and his alter ego, Stickman.
Stickman can go places and do things Percy sometimes cannot. We
follow a pelican named Percy on his first visit to the local
community center. Along the way Percy joins his friends and learns
the classic "practice makes perfect" philosophy.
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