The Splendor of His Music
The Splendor of His Music

Author: Diane McMurrin

Publisher: Winepress Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781579211141

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It began innocently enough for Diane McMurrin, her husband, Roger, and their teenage son, Matthew: A five-week vacation to Ukraine shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. But while there, Roger, a church music director, organized a performance of Handel's Messiah. The Ukrainian audience and singers--most of whom were atheists--had never heard the classic work before. Sacred music, with a message of hope and salvation, had been forbidden while atheism and Communism reigned in Eastern Europe.

My Kind of Sound
My Kind of Sound

Author: Steve Krakow

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781940430614

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"Compiles most of [the author's] long-running comic series of the same name, serialized in the largest Chicago alternative weekly, the 'Chicago reader,' every other week, for over a decade"--An author's not

As Music and Splendour
As Music and Splendour

Author: Kate O'Brien

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-08-04

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0141926961

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Set in the 1880s and '90s, As Music and Splendour tells the story of two young Irish girls who are sent to Rome for training as opera singers. Rose - red-haired, big-hearted and big-voiced - is soon on track to become a prima donna soprano; Clare, also a soprano but subtler and less glamorous, is more at home with sacred music. While Rose juggles the affections of various men, Clare embarks on a passionate affair with her fellow-student Luisa. As Music in Splendour is a thrillingly readable and romantic novel from one of the very few truly important Irish novelists of the twentieth century.

The Empty Bottle Chicago
The Empty Bottle Chicago

Author: John E. Dugan

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781940430546

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Stories, photos, and ephemera contributed by the Empty Bottle's community of fans, performers, and staff over it's 20+ year history.

Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia

Author: Claudia R. Jensen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-10-05

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0253003474

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Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1694, her book offers detailed accounts of the celebratory musical performances for Russia's first patriarch -- events that were important displays of Russian piety and power. Jensen emphasizes music's varied roles in Muscovite society and the equally varied opinions and influences surrounding it. In an attempt to demystify what has previously been an enigma to Western readers, she paints a clear picture of the dazzling splendor of musical performances and the ways in which 17th-century Muscovites employed music for spiritual enlightenment as well as entertainment.

Sunflower Splendor
Sunflower Splendor

Author: Wuji Liu

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9780253355805

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A comprehensive anthology of Chinese poetry from the 12th century B.C. to the present. "This magnificent collection has the effect of a complete library rather than of an anthology of poetry.... A lyric quality comes through into our own language... Every page is alive with striking and wonderful things, immediately accessible." -- Publishers Weekly "Sunflower Splendor is the largest and, on the whole, best anthology of translated Chinese poems to have appeared in a Western language." -- The New York Times Book Review "This remarkably fine anthology should remain standard for a long time." -- Library Journal ..". excellent translations by divers hands. Open to any page and listen to the still, sad music... " -- Washington Post Bookworld