Bernard Shaw,HOW TO BECOME A MUSICAL CRITIC,1960 Hart-Davis[musica,critica

Bernard Shaw,
HOW TO BECOME A MUSICAL CRITIC.
Rupert Hart-Davis, London 1960,
copertina rigida, rilegatura in tela,
14x21 cm., pp.358,
introduzione di Dan H. Lawrence,
testo in inglese,
peso: g.473
cod.3465
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INDICE
PAGE
Introduction xi
Editor’s Note
PRELUDE: HOW TO BECOME A MUSICAL
CRITIC
I MUSICAL BUZZINGS OF A GHOST
APPRENTICE (The Hornet, 1876—77)
II THE EMERGENCE OF BASSETTO (The 1880's)
Music for the People (1883)
Herr Richter and His Blue Ribbon (1885)
The Inferno at St James’s Hall (1885)
The Bach Bi-centenary (1885)
English Opera at Drury Lane (1885)
Manon (1885)
The Marriage of Figaro (1885)
A Substitute for Strauss (1885)
Art Comer (1885)
Musical Instruments at the Inventions Exhibition (1885)
Singing, Past and Present (1885)
Encores (1885)
Fugue out of Fashion (1885)
Programs (1885)
Palmy Days at the Opera (1886)
Liszt (1886)
The Redemption at the Crystal Palace (1886)
Memoirs of a Famous Fiddler (1886)
A Book for Orators and Singers (1886)
Wagner on Orchestral Conducting (1887)
The Don Giovanni Centenary (1887)
Boito’s Mefistofele (1888)
HOW TO BECOME A MUSICAL CRITIC
PAGE
Such a Thumping of Pianos (1888) 136
Musical Mems: By The Star’s Own Captious Critic (1889) 138
The Grieg Concert (1889) 142
The Philharmonic (1889) 143
Bayreuth and Back (1889) 146
The Opera Season (1889) 151
Wagner in Bayreuth (1889) 158
Faust at the Albert Hall (1889) 172
III THE WELL-TEMPERED CRITIC (The 1890’s)
Concerts (1890) 175
Mr Henry Seiffert’s Concert (1890) 177
Thorgrim (1890) 178
Carl Rosa Opera Company: Lohengrin (1890) 183
Modern Men: Hans Richter (1891) 185
Modern Men: Sir Arthur Sullivan (1891) 189
The Music Season in London (1891) 193
The Mozart Centenary (1891) 195
Brahms, Beethoven, and The Barber of Bagdad (1891) 200
The Superiority of Musical to Dramatic Critics (1892) 205
The Rossini Centenary (1892) 210
The Religion of the Pianoforte (1894) 213
Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony (1895) 228
Bassetto at Bayreuth (1896) 232
What It Feels Like to be Successful (1897) 250
IV OLD THEMES AND NEW MUSIC (The Twentieth
Century)
Mutilated Opera (1904) 253
Sumptuary Regulations at the Opera (1905) 255
Strauss and His Elektra (1910) 257
The Reminiscences of a Quinquagenarian (1910) 267
Causerie on Handel in England (1913) 278
A Neglected Moral of the Wagner Centenary (1913) 281
Gluck in Glastonbury (1916) 285
Mozart with Mozart Left Out (1917) 289
Scratch Opera (1918) 296
The Future of British Music (1919) 303
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CONTENTS
Sir Edward Elgar (1920-32)
Handel’s Messiah (1941)
Radio Music (1947)
Basso Continuo (1948)
Music Today (1950)
CODA: WE SING BETTER THAN OUR GRAND
PARENTS!
Biographical Index
General Index