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ISBN: 180543070X Year: 2021 Publisher: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press,
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Gerald Finzi's (1901-1956) masterpiece is the radiant and touching cantata 'Dies Natalis'. He is also highly regarded for his Thomas Hardy song-settings, for his 'Intimations of Immortality', and for his fine cello and clarinet concertos. As a scholar, he championed the then neglected composers Hubert Parry and Ivor Gurney, and the eighteenth-century John Stanley, William Boyce and Richard Mudge, composers he revived with the amateur orchestra he founded.
Diana McVeagh, Finzi's biographer, brings together more than 1600 letters from and to Gerald Finzi, spanning the composer's life from the early 1920s until his untimely death in 1956. His more than 160 correspondents include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Edmund Rubbra, Arthur Bliss and Howard Ferguson, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and Sir John Barbirolli, the poet Edmund Blunden, and the artist John Aldridge, making this a portrait not only of Gerald Finzi but also of his group of composer, musician and artist friends in the first half of the twentieth century.
In these mostly unpublished letters Finzi emerges as a multi-faceted and complex character, developing from a solitary, introverted youth into a man with strong views and wide interests: education, pacifism, vegetarianism, the Arts and Crafts movement and the English pastoral tradition, among others. From amusing trivia to the deeply serious ideas and principles Finzi set out at the onset of war and in the 1950s, these letters allow for first-hand insights into his personality and background.
Music --- History and criticism. --- Ashmansworth. --- Blunden. --- Boyce. --- Chosen Hill. --- Dies Natalis. --- Edmund Rubbra. --- Garth. --- Gurney. --- Handel. --- Hardy. --- Herbert Howells. --- Howard Ferguson. --- John Stanley. --- Mudge. --- Newbury. --- Parry. --- Three Choirs Festivals. --- Traherne. --- Vaughan Williams. --- Wordsworth. --- apples. --- Composers --- Finzi, Gerald, --- Friends and associates.
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ISBN: 9780520283909 0520241185 9780520241183 0520283902 0520960025 9780520960022 132219470X Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland University of California Press
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Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940's and 1950's, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan-it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.
82-931 --- 76 <73> --- Stripverhaal --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 76 <73> Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 82-931 Stripverhaal --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- United States --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Drawing --- Literature --- United States of America --- beeldverhalen --- 20th century comic books. --- american comics. --- animation graphic design. --- art. --- artistic potential. --- artists. --- business history. --- business. --- carl barks. --- cartoonists. --- comic book history. --- comic books. --- comic history. --- comic studies. --- comics. --- dell comics. --- disney. --- donald duck. --- entertainment industry. --- enthusiasm. --- john stanley. --- literary criticism. --- literary. --- little lulu. --- midcentury comics. --- pogo. --- retrospective. --- uncle scrooge. --- walt kelly.
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