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Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored
American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic,
largely independent of worldwide trends and the avant-garde, he
infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and
forms new vitality. His rich legacy includes every genre, including
the famous Adagio for Strings, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, three
concertos, a plethora of songs, and two operas, the Pulitzer
prize-winning Vanessa, and Antony and Cleopatra, the commissioned
work that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center
in 1966. Generously documented by letter, sketches, autograph
manuscripts, and interviews with friends, colleagues, and
performers with whom he worked, this ASCAP-Award winning book is
still unquestionably the most authoritative biography on Barber,
covering his entire career and interweaving the events of his life
with his compositional process. This second edition benefits from
many new discoveries, including a Violin Sonata recovered from an
artist's estate, a diary Barber kept his seventeenth year, a trove
of letters and manuscripts that were recovered from a suitcase
found in a dumpster, documentation that dispels earlier myths about
the composition of Barber's Violin Concerto, and research of
scholars that was stimulated by Heyman's work. Barber's intimate
relations are discussed when they bear on his creativity. A
testament to the lasting significance of Romanticism, Samuel Barber
stands as a model biography of an important musical figure.
Risk, Age and Pregnancy provides an in-depth case study of the
operation of a prenatal genetic screening and testing system. The
methodology integrates observational, qualitative interview and
survey data. The perspectives of pregnant women, hospital doctors
and midwives are explored in depth, as is the communication between
women and the hospital doctors who advise them. The book offers
insights which are relevant to those concerned with the rapidly
growing field of genetic risk management.
Risk, Age and Pregnancy provides an in-depth case study of the
operation of a prenatal genetic screening and testing system. The
methodology integrates observational, qualitative interview and
survey data. The perspectives of pregnant women, hospital doctors
and midwives are explored in depth, as is the communication between
women and the hospital doctors who advise them. The book offers
insights which are relevant to those concerned with the rapidly
growing field of genetic risk management.
This is the first comprehensive study of the artist's life and his distinguished career. The work is so full of detail and solid history that it stands as a model biography of an important musical figure. This book provides the social context in which a major composer grew, how he learned his craft and built his career, the evolving musical tastes of American audiences, and his relationship to musical giants like Arturo Toscanini and Serge Koussevitsky.
How the new science of "metabolic programming" can help you:
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