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The writings of David Cairns have played a major part in the
relatively recent acceptance of Berlioz as a central figure in
western classical music. Discovering Berlioz collects articles,
lectures and other texts from several decades of advocacy, throwing
new light on this outsize personality - the Romantic composer par
excellence. For the past half-century and more David Cairns has
been one of the world's pre-eminent Berlioz scholars, translating
Berlioz's freewheeling memoirs and writing a monumental biography
of the composer that earned a procession of awards. But many of
Cairns' writings on Berlioz were intended for particular audiences
- the Berlioz Society Bulletin, articles in books and journals,
contributions to newspapers (he was a critic for The Sunday Times
for 25 years) and lectures - and have never been collected between
a single set of covers. Discovering Berlioz presents nearly 40
essays from the past five decades that even now throw unexpected
light on this most quixotic and profound of composers - firebrand
and philosopher almost in the same breath. These articles follow
the chronology of Berlioz's life, examining the influences of his
provincial childhood on his music, the revelations of Virgil,
Gluck, Shakespeare and Beethoven, the tribulations of his
professional life in Paris, when the pressure to earn a living as a
reviewer and writer robbed him of the time he should have spent on
composition, and finally focusing on the masterpiece that crowned
Berlioz's difficult life, the operatic epic Les Troyens.
Discovering Berlioz also charts the history of Berlioz reception:
the composer who in the mid-twentieth century was regarded as
aneccentric outsider is now seen as one of the most vital figures
in the history of western music - a re-assessment for which David
Cairns himself deserves much of the credit.
This book looks at the changes that have taken place in the wake of
the COVID-19 pandemic, following the lockdown of societies and
imposition of border controls in an attempt to limit the spread of
the virus. Using empirical evidence from Portugal, a geopolitically
important point of intersection within Europe and between Global
South and Global North, the book examines consequences of the
apparent end of mobility expansionism, developing a refreshing
theoretical concept of 'immobility turn.' Focusing on the tourist
industry, universities hosting international students and migration
agencies, the book offers invaluable insights about how the
pandemic affected institutions and individuals' lives, informing
policy-making processes on a global level.
This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth
mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on
movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing
exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international
agencies, and free movement. The collection features over 30
theoretically and empirically-based discussions of the meaning and
key aspects of various forms of mobility as practiced in
contemporary societies, and concludes with an exploration of the
costs and benefits of moving abroad to individuals and societies at
a time when the viability of free circulation is being called into
question. The geographical scope of the book covers Europe, Asia,
Australia and the Americas, and takes into account socio-economic
and regional inequalities, as well as recent developments such as
the refugee crisis, Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. The book
integrates the fields of youth mobility and migration studies,
creating opportunities for the establishment of a new paradigm for
understanding the spatial circulation of youth and young adults in
the twenty-first century.
This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth
mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on
movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing
exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international
agencies, and free movement. The collection features over 30
theoretically and empirically-based discussions of the meaning and
key aspects of various forms of mobility as practiced in
contemporary societies, and concludes with an exploration of the
costs and benefits of moving abroad to individuals and societies at
a time when the viability of free circulation is being called into
question. The geographical scope of the book covers Europe, Asia,
Australia and the Americas, and takes into account socio-economic
and regional inequalities, as well as recent developments such as
the refugee crisis, Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. The book
integrates the fields of youth mobility and migration studies,
creating opportunities for the establishment of a new paradigm for
understanding the spatial circulation of youth and young adults in
the twenty-first century.
This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission's
Erasmus programme. In its current Erasmus+ format, the programme
supports international exchange visits among students, trainees,
volunteers and academic members of staff with a view to enhancing
employability and encouraging intercultural understanding. Against
the backdrop of the 30th anniversary of Erasmus, the authors
explore the successes of the programme, most prominently the
undergraduate exchange programme, as well as areas of on-going
development, including the incorporation of short duration mobility
projects focused on specific social issues into the initiative.
Through integrating perspectives from authors in a number of
European countries, all of whom have knowledge regarding various
aspects of Erasmus, the book provides insight into the challenges
facing the programme as it moves into its fourth decade. Mobility,
Education and Employability in the European Union: Inside Erasmus
will be of interest to students and scholars from a range of
disciplines, including geography, sociology and European politics.
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the
European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to
contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the
authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up
of Europe's borders, and exposing its education systems and labour
markets to international competition. While acknowledging the
potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal many of
the negative consequences arising from flaws in mobility governance
and inequalities in access to opportunities, arguing that when the
management of mobility goes 'wrong', we are left with a heightened
level of precariousness and the reproduction of social inequality.
This discussion will be of interest to those working within
Europe's mobility infrastructure, as well as policymakers in the
mobility field and students and scholars from across the social
sciences.
This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission's
Erasmus programme. In its current Erasmus+ format, the programme
supports international exchange visits among students, trainees,
volunteers and academic members of staff with a view to enhancing
employability and encouraging intercultural understanding. Against
the backdrop of the 30th anniversary of Erasmus, the authors
explore the successes of the programme, most prominently the
undergraduate exchange programme, as well as areas of on-going
development, including the incorporation of short duration mobility
projects focused on specific social issues into the initiative.
Through integrating perspectives from authors in a number of
European countries, all of whom have knowledge regarding various
aspects of Erasmus, the book provides insight into the challenges
facing the programme as it moves into its fourth decade. Mobility,
Education and Employability in the European Union: Inside Erasmus
will be of interest to students and scholars from a range of
disciplines, including geography, sociology and European politics.
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the
European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to
contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the
authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up
of Europe's borders, and exposing its education systems and labour
markets to international competition. While acknowledging the
potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal many of
the negative consequences arising from flaws in mobility governance
and inequalities in access to opportunities, arguing that when the
management of mobility goes 'wrong', we are left with a heightened
level of precariousness and the reproduction of social inequality.
This discussion will be of interest to those working within
Europe's mobility infrastructure, as well as policymakers in the
mobility field and students and scholars from across the social
sciences.
This book explores the relationship between youth labour market
marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of
Portugal and the role played by austerity policies in shaping
patterns of activism. Through integrating primary and secondary
empirical evidence with key ideas from classical and contemporary
Sociology, the authors illustrate some of the key features of youth
unemployment and job precariousness, also highlighting trends in
formal and informal activist activities. Central to Youth
Unemployment and Job Precariousness is the argument that following
the onset of the economic crisis, there has been the birth of what
we the authors term 'an austerity generation', comprised of young
people facing difficulties in the labour market and uncertain
futures. The book also highlights the difficulties young people
have in making a political response to austerity, as well as their
hopes for the future, including the need to raise consciousness
about youth labour market marginalization and to return to more
accountable forms of democracy.
This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission's
Erasmus programme. In its current Erasmus+ format, the programme
supports international exchange visits among students, trainees,
volunteers and academic members of staff in order to enhance
employability and encourage intercultural understanding. With
Erasmus having recently celebrated its 30th anniversary this is an
opportune moment at which to look at some of the successes of the
programme, most prominently the undergraduate exchange programme,
and other areas in which development is on-going, including the
incorporation of short duration mobility projects focused on
specific social issues. Through integrating different perspectives
from authors in different European countries, all of whom have
knowledge regarding different aspects of Erasmus, we are able to
illustrate how different aspects of the initiative function,
providing insight into the challenges facing the programme as it
moves into its fourth decade
New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David
Cairns, Joel-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, Julian Rushton, and
other prominent experts. These twelve essays bring new breadth and
depth to our knowledge of the life and work of the composer of the
Symphonie fantastique. A distinguished international array of
scholars here treat such matters as Berlioz's "aesthetics" and what
it means to write about the meaning of his music; the political
implications of his fiction and the affinities of his projects as
composer and as critic; what the Germans thought of his work before
his travels in Germany and what the English made of him when he
visited their capital city; what he seems to have written
immediately after encountering Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (a
surprise), and where he profited from Beethoven in what later
became Romeo et Juliette. The volume closes with two reflective
essays on Berlioz's literary masterpiece, the Memoires.
Contributors: Lord Aberdare (Alastair Bruce), Jean-Pierre Bartoli,
JacquesBarzun, Peter Bloom, David Cairns, Gunther Braam, Gerard
Conde, Pepijn van Doesburg, Joel-Marie Fauquet, Frank Heidlberger,
Hugh Macdonald, and Julian Rushton Peter Bloom (Smith College) is
author of The Life of Berlioz (1998) and editor of The Cambridge
Companion to Berlioz (2000).
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only
was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest
composer of his day and an outstanding critic and writer. Yet
throughout his life he struggled for money and his music was
persistently reviled in his native France. With exceptional insight
and sympathy, David Cairns draws together the major strands of
Berlioz's life: his tempestuous marriage to the actress Harriet
Smithson; the genesis of his famous works, including the Requiem,
Romeo and Juliet and his crowning masterpiece The Trojans; his
friendships with Mendelssohn, Liszt, Princess Wittgenstein and
Wagner; and, finally, his last years haunted once again by personal
tragedy. Here, as never before, is Berlioz the artist - and the
man.
No artist's achievement connects more directly with early
experience than that of Berlioz. David Cairns draws on a wealth of
family papers to recreate in authentic and intimate detail the
provincial milieu of Berlioz's boyhood, showing how the son of a
village doctor was already transforming himself into the composer
of the Fantastic Symphony. Berlioz's desperate attempts to win his
father's approval for his vocation, his struggles to establish
himself on the Parisian musical scene, and his passionate pursuit
of love are all brought vividly to life in this first volume of
David Cairn's award-winning biography.
David Cairns explains the challenge posed by the theology of Rudolf
Bultmann in an accessible way and outlines its relevance for
preachers. Reprint. Originally published: 1960.
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