Ella

Ella

Author: Walter Aimwell

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 337509051X

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. The Aimwell Stories.


Ella

Ella

Author: Walter Aimwell

Publisher:

Published: 1865

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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The Pursuit of High Culture

The Pursuit of High Culture

Author: Christina Bashford

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9781843832980

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This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union. This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union [1845-81], an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much fêted across Europe in its day. It combines a biography of Ella with a social-economic history of the Musical Union, its players, repertoire and audiences, and sets them against the gradually shifting contexts for London concerts, chamber music and cultural life. Ella's extraordinary life story, which began in provincial, artisan-class obscurity and ended in the upper echelons of London society, shapes thenarrative. Such themes as entrepreneurship, concert management, taste shaping, music appreciation and elite social networks are discussed throughout, as is the curious interplay between the desire to 'sacralize' chamber music, especially Beethoven's, on the one hand, and the need to survive amid the increasing commercial imperatives of London concert life on the other. CHRISTINA BASHFORD is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Knife Edge

Knife Edge

Author: David Callinan

Publisher: David Callinan

Published:

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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The craving never ends 'Make me beautiful, make me beautiful…" Ella Fallon makes this secret wish every night She and her lover Ed Leeming were born brilliant but ugly and their lives made a misery at California's most exclusive college by Scott Stockton, leader of 'The Beautiful Elite'. Stockton has it made. He is heir to an industrial multinational and plays the 'rich boy who gets what he wants' role to the hilt. If only Ella and Ed could be transformed into beautiful people. If only they could take over Scott Stockton's life and fortune. They would kill to have what Stockton has – and more. Enter the Svengali figure of futuristic body remodeller/plastic surgeon Thomas Startz who is about to make their dreams come true.


Face Lift

Face Lift

Author: David Callinan

Publisher: Ocean House Press

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0954143116

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