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How operas are created by composers and librettists : the life of Jack Beeson, American opera composer
- Title
- How operas are created by composers and librettists : the life of Jack Beeson, American opera composer / Jack Beeson.
- Author
- Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010.
- Publication
- Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- ii, 544 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Contents
- Growing up untypical in Middletown (1921-1939) -- At the Eastman School of Music during World War II (1939-1944) -- To New York City, Bela Bartok, and opera at Columbia (1944-1945) -- Britten's Grimes and Virgil Thomson's Mother and Aeneid -- Living miscellaneously (1945-1948) -- Jonah (1947-1952) : Rome and the Ticino (1948-1950) -- New Yorkers and Ticinesi (1950-1952) -- Hello out there : the sweet bye and bye : librettoless in Europe (1953-1959) -- Good deeds and the Ditson fund (1960-) : Lizzie Borden (1954-1965) -- My heart's in the highlands (1966-1970) : riots and the bust on campus (1968) -- Tempers and tantrums in the department : Captain Jinks of the horse marines (1968-1975) -- Two jinxed subjects : awards and passings : Dr. Heidegger's fountain of youth (1976-1978) -- Miscellanea and Cyrano (1978-1990) -- More miscellanea : sorry, wrong number : practice in the art of elocution (1990-1999) -- Coda (1999-).
- Call Number
- JME 09-198
- ISBN
- 9780773449473
- 0773449477
- LCCN
- 2008041799
- OCLC
- vendor 2008041799
- Author
- Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010.
- Title
- How operas are created by composers and librettists : the life of Jack Beeson, American opera composer / Jack Beeson.
- Imprint
- Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
- Research Call Number
- JME 09-198