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Music & the Performing Arts  Alexander
Pushkin: Master Teacher of DanceBy Gennady Albert. At the great Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg, Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin (1907-1970) danced many leading roles from 1925 to 1953. However, it was as a teacher at the Leningrad Choreographic School that he became a legend. Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov were his star pupils, but nearly all the leading male dancers of the Kirov Ballet from the 1940s through the 1960s were taught by him. Filled with personal photos, as well as others of his students and classes, this concise, insightful biography reveals to us the life and techniques of a master teacher. For dance enthusiasts as well as for the serious student and teacher, this small volume illuminates the methods and personality of a man little known in the West, but someone who has made significant contributions to the international world of dance. More ... Read the Foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov 2001, b/w photographs, 200 pages, hardcover, $27.50, ISBN 0-87104-452-8 Buy this book from The Library Shop By Johannes Brahms, introduction by Walter Frisch. A facsimile of the original manuscript of Brahms's great work for contralto, men's chorus, and orchestra, with an introduction documenting its place in the composer's life and work. The original manuscript of this musical setting of a text by Goethe is in the Library's Music Division. 1983, 76 pages (44 facsimile pages), $50.00, ISBN 0-87104-283-5 Edited by Vera Brodsky Lawrence. The first complete works of a black composer to be published, making use of the original illustrated sheet music covers, including rags, songs, and the complete piano-vocal score of the opera Treemonisha. Vol. I: Works for Piano 1982, 327 pages, $40.00, ISBN 0-87104-275-4 Vol. II: Works for Voice (out of stock indefinitely) 1982, 341 pages, $40.00, ISBN 0-87104-276-2 Two-volume set: $75.00, ISBN 0-87104-274-6 By Christina L. Schlundt. 1989, 248 pages, $46.00, ISBN 0-8240-5547-0 Published by Garland Publishing, Inc. Edited by Richard Jackson, foreword by Virgil Thomson. An anthology presenting a wide range of musical pieces from the early period of American music, edited from the original editions, with a historical and critical introduction and a foreword by one of America's great modern composers. 1988, 336 pages, paperback, $25.00, ISBN 0-938856-03-0 By Richard Rodgers, edited by William W. Appleton, introduction by Dorothy Rodgers. Personal letters to his wife by a leading composer for the American musical theatre offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of some of Rodgers and Hart's most successful musicals for stage and screen. Sketches of friends and collaborators such as Hart and George Gershwin add interest to this look at the theatre of a bygone era. Special limited edition of 250 copies signed by Mrs. Rodgers. 1988, 38 b/w illustrations, 253 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-87104-405-6 Executive producer David Hall, disc edition produced by David Hamilton and Tom Owen. The first recordings of opera from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, restored on six 33 rpm records from the 1900-1904 cylinders in the Library's Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound; with an illustrated 72-page booklet of musical biographies and texts performed. 1985, $100.00, ISBN 0-87104-287-8 Available from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498 (telephone: (212) 870-1661) By Claude Debussy. Debussy's autograph manuscript of Les Papillons, composed most likely in 1881, is now in the collection of the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Drawing upon this unique resource, this beautifully designed publication includes the first Performing Edition of Les Papillons (at left in photograph), transcribed by Marie Rolf, as well as a facsimile of the Debussy manuscript (at right in photograph). An essay by Rolf describes the provenance of the manuscript and the editorial practices followed in the transcription. This setting of a poem by Théophile Gautier has been virtually unknown since Debussy's time. The song received its world premiere only in 1962, some eighty years after its composition, at New York's Town Hall; on that occasion, conductor Wilfrid Pelletier observed in a program note that "to my knowledge, this song has never been mentioned by any biographer, nor sung in public." More recently, in February 2004, the work received a rare performance--by acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming--as part of the recital "The Art of French Song," at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In making Les Papillons readily accessible to today's performing artists, this special edition ensures and enhances the reputation of this early song by a master composer. 2004, large portfolio, with insert for facsimile and performing edition; printed four-color on fine cream paper, 26 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-87104-456-6 Distributed by OMI -- Old Manuscripts & Incunabula
Edited by Francis Steegmuller. The intriguing love story of two major figures in the performing arts, told through the letters of the great dancer Isadora Duncan to the innovative stage designer Gordon Craig, with interleaved biographical commentary by noted biographer Francis Steegmuller. 1974, b/w illustrations throughout, 399 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-87104-256-8 (available for sale only in the U.S. and Canada) Buy this book from The Library Shop |
