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ISBN10: 0253041570, ISBN13: 9780253041579, [publisher: MH - Indiana University Press] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]
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New. From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences. Few perceived that Stravinsky and Auden were confronting the central crisis of the Modern age, for their story of a hapless eighteenth-century Everyman dramatizes the very limits of human will, a theme Auden insists underlies all opera. In The Last Opera, Chandler Carter weaves together three interlocking stories. The central and most detailed story explores the libretto and music of The Rake's Progress. The second positions the opera as a focal point in Stravinsky's artistic journey and those who helped him realize it-his librettists, Auden and Chester Kallman; his protege Robert Craft; and his compatriot, fellow composer, and close friend Nicolas Nabokov. By exploring the ominous cultural landscape in which these fascinating individuals lived and worked, the book captures a pivotal twenty-five-year span (from approximately 1945 to 1970) during which modernists like Stravinsky and Auden confronted a tectonic disruption to their artistic worldview. Ultimately, Carter reveals how these stories fit into a larger third narrative, the 400-year history of opera. This richly and lovingly contextualized study of The Rake's Progress sheds new light on why, despite the hundreds of musical dramas and theater pieces tha ...
Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press 2019 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 356 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Printed music items. Russian Music Studies.
ISBN10: 0253041570, ISBN13: 9780253041579, [publisher: Indiana University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]
ISBN10: 0253041570, ISBN13: 9780253041579, [publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR] Hardcover This close reading of Stravinsky s The Rake s Progress examines the cultural context of its creation and explores its place in the broader history of opera.Über den AutorChandler Carter is Professor of Music at Hofstra Univer. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2019]
Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press 2019 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 356 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Printed music items. Russian Music Studies.
Indiana University Press 5/31/2019 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket The Last Opera: The Rakeas Progress in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama (Hardback or Cased Book)
ISBN10: 0253041570, ISBN13: 9780253041579, [publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR] Hardcover This close reading of Stravinsky s The Rake s Progress examines the cultural context of its creation and explores its place in the broader history of opera.Über den AutorChandler Carter is Professor of Music at Hofstra Univer. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2019]
ISBN10: 0253041570, ISBN13: 9780253041579, [publisher: Indiana University Press] Hardcover 2019. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]
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