The Paris Diary The New York Diary 1951 1961

Download or read book The Paris Diary & The New York Diary, 1951–1961 written by Ned Rorem and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn the earliest published diaries of Ned Rorem, the acclaimed American composer recalls a bygone era and its luminaries, celebrates the creative process, and examines the gay culture of Europe and the US during the 1950s/divDIV One of America’s most significant contemporary composers, Ned Rorem is also widely acclaimed as a diarist of unique insight and refreshing candor. Together, his Paris Diary, first published in 1966, and The New York Diary,which followed a year later, paint a colorful landscape of Rorem’s world and its famous inhabitants, as well as a fascinating self-portrait of a footloose young artist unabashedly drinking deeply of life. In this amalgam of forthright personal reflections and cogent social commentary, unprecedented for its time, Rorem’s anecdotal recollections of the decade from 1951 to 1961 represent Gay Liberation in its infancy as the author freely expresses his open sexuality not as a revelation but as a simple fact of life./divDIV /divDIVAt once blisteringly honest and exquisitely entertaining, Rorem’s diaries expound brilliantly on the creative process, following their peripatetic author from Paris to Morocco to Italy and back home to America as he crosses paths with Picasso, Cocteau, Gide, Boulez, and other luminaries of the era. /divDIV /divWith consummate skill and unexpurgated insight, a younger, wilder Rorem reflects on a bygone time and culture and, in doing so, holds a revealing mirror to himself. /div

Download or read book The Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem, 1951-1961 written by Ned Rorem and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dash of Daring written by Penelope Rowlands and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Carmel Snow, one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century, whose stewardship of Harper's Bazaar helped to redefine fashion journalism.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets written by Terence Diggory and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-to-Z reference to writers of the New York School, including John Ashbery, who is often considered America's greatest living poet. Examines significant movements in literary history and its development through the years.

Download or read book American Diaries: Diaries written from 1845 to 1980 written by Laura Arksey and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research. This book was released on 1983 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teaching Stravinsky written by Kimberly A. Francis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929 Nadia Boulanger accepted Igor Stravinsky's younger son, Soulima, as her student. Within two years, Stravinsky and Boulanger merged their artistic spheres, each influencing and enhancing the cultural work of the other until the composer's death in 1971. Teaching Stravinsky tells Boulanger's story of the ever-changing nature of her fractious relationship with Stravinksy. Author Kimberly A. Francis explores how Boulanger's own professional activity during the turbulent twentieth-century intersected with her efforts on behalf of Stravinsky, and how this facilitated her own influential conversations with the composer about his works while also drawing her into close contact with his family. Through the theoretical lens of Bourdieu, and drawing upon over one thousand pages of letters and scores, many published here for the first time, Francis examines the extent to which Boulanger played a foundational role in defining, defending, and ultimately consecrating Stravinsky's canonical identity. She considers how the quotidian events in the lives of these two icons of modernism informed both their art and their professional decisions, and convincingly argues for a reevaluation of the influence of women on cultural production during the twentieth century. At once a story of one woman's vibrant friendship with an iconic modernist composer, and a case study in how gendered polemics informed professional negotiations of the artistic-political fields of the twentieth-century, Teaching Stravinsky sheds new light not only on how Boulanger taught Stravinsky, but also how, in doing so, she managed to influence the course of modernism itself.

Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.