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Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg contains new English translations of the complete writings of the Viennese composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) and extensive commentaries tracing the history of each essay and its connection to musical culture of the early twentieth century. Berg is now recognized as a classic composer of the modern period, best known for his operas Wozzeck and Lulu. Berg, Anton Webern, and their teacher Arnold Schoenberg constitute the ""Second Viennese School"" which played a major role in the transformation of serious music as it entered the modern period. Berg w

Composers --- Berg, Alban, --- Songwriters --- Musicians

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Story-like chapters profile six twentieth-century reactive composers; not the most famous pillars of the period but lesser-known, perhaps more approachable, characters whose stories span that 1900-2000 period from decadent fin-de-siècle Vienna (Alban Berg, Alexander Zemlinsky) to war-torn Paris (Olivier Messiaen, Arthur Honegger) to the Cold War tensions of East vs. West (Tōru Takemitsu) and late-century Communism (Arvo Pärt). Their stories were all very different crises, and they produced very different kinds of music; each very telling of their composers life and times. Crisis Music presents each brief biography almost like a detective story looking for motives, then spotlights one particular piece of music from each composer that emerged directly out of hard times maybe a political crisis at the time of composition (Hitler marching into Paris or later Communist crack-downs); or some personal angst such as illness or scandal and how that music contains and expresses crisis. In short, the subject for discussion is how context influences content. Such troubled and especially vivid composition, crisis music, can often be most compelling and meaningful for its composer and for its time. Indeed, their music also seems to have a special resonance to share with our own crisis-prone times. And meanwhile, Western music history played-out its own story from late-romantic style to Serialism and Minimalism to the anything-goes Pluralism we hear today. Crisis Music sparks the discussion about how history, biography and music intersects. At the behest of music teachers at secondary and tertiary levels, Crisis Music contains substantive Discussion Questions geared for classroom use.

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Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance, the emotional intensity of opera, and the expressive nuance of late-Romantic tonal practice. The essays in this collection explore the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present newly translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era. Of particular significance are the first translations of Berg's newly discovered stage work Night (Nocturne), Hermann Watznauer's intimate account of Berg's early years, and the famous memorial issue of the music periodical 23. Contributors consider Berg's fascination with palindromes and mirror images and their relationship to notions of time and identity; the Viennese roots of his distinctive orchestral style; his links to such Viennese contemporaries as Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold; and his attempts to maneuver through the perilous shoals of gender, race, and fascist politics. The contributors are Antony Beaumont, Leon Botstein, Regina Busch, Nicholas Chadwick, Mark DeVoto, Douglas Jarman, Sherry Lee, and Margaret Notley. Bard Music Festival: ? Berg and His WorldBard CollegeAnnandale-on-Hudson, New YorkAugust 13-15, 2010 and August 20-22, 2010

Berg, Alban, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Composers --- MUSIC / History & Criticism. --- Berg, Alban (foto's)

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Raf is een kei in het vangen van boeven en schurken ... op zijn spelconsole. Maar het is mooi weer, dus wil mam dat Raf buiten gaat spelen. Maar is Raf daar buiten ook zo goed in boeven vangen?

spelconsoles --- Buiten spelen --- Prentenboeken --- Jeugdboeken --- Fiction --- jeugdliteratuur --- KHCA --- JB BERG --- boeven --- avontuur

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Engineering Communism is the fascinating story of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, dedicated Communists and members of the Rosenberg spy ring, who stole information from the United States during World War II that proved crucial to building the first advanced weapons systems in the USSR. On the brink of arrest, they escaped with KGB's help and eluded American intelligence for decades.Drawing on extensive interviews with Barr and new archival evidence, Steve Usdin explains why Barr and Sarant became spies, how they obtained military secrets, and how FBI blunders led to their escape. He chronicles their pioneering role in the Soviet computer industry, including their success in convincing Nikita Khrushchev to build a secret Silicon Valley.The book is rich with details of Barr's and Sarant's intriguing andexciting personal lives, their families, as well as their integration into Russian society. Engineering Communism follows the two spies through Sarant's death and Barr's unbelievable return to the United States.

Spies --- Electrical engineers --- Communists --- Espionage, Soviet --- Technology transfer --- Soviet espionage --- Electric engineers --- Engineers --- History --- Berg, Iosef Veniaminovich, --- Staros, Filipp Georgievich, --- Staros, Philip, --- Sarant, Alfred, --- Berg, Josef, --- Berg, Joe, --- Barr, Joel, --- Barr, Joyel, --- Zelenograd (Russia) --- History. --- Berg, Iosef Veniaminovich, -- 1916-1998.. --- Staros, Filipp Georgievich, -- 1918-1979.. --- Spies -- United States -- Biography.. --- Electrical engineers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.. --- Communists -- United States -- Biography.. --- Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History -- 20th century.. --- Technology transfer -- Soviet Union.