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  Sonata Fragments - Romantic...

  Andrew Davis

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  “An effort to expand sonata theory more solidly into the nineteenth-century repertoire.” —Notes 
   
  In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the Romantic sonata that place this nineteenth-century musical form squarely outside inherited Classical sonata procedures. 
   
  Building on Sonata Theory, Davis examines moments of fracture and fragmentation that disrupt the cohesive and linear temporality in piano sonatas by Chopin, Brahms, and Schumann. These disruptions in the sonata form are a narrative technique that signify temporal shifts during which we move from the outer action to the inner thoughts of a musical agent, or we move from the story as it unfolds to a flashback or flash-forward. Through an interpretation of Romantic sonatas as temporally multi-dimensional works in which portions of the music in any given piece can lie inside or outside of what Sonata Theory would define as the sonata-space proper, Davis reads into these ruptures a narrative of expressive features that mark these sonatas as uniquely Romantic. 
   
  “A major achievement.” —Michael L. Klein, author of Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject

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  Greatest Drama Shows Volume 8 -...

  Various Various

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  OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES   Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s, the golden era of radio. The series features seven exciting themes with 100 episodes in each. That is 700 classic radio programs in all.   Greatest Drama Shows   Cling to the edge of your seat for the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Green Hornet, The Third Man. Hear classic stores brought to radio by celebrity casts such as Brave New World with William Conrad, The Pickwick Papers starring Orson Welles, and so many more. 100 great Drama classics in ten volumes. Volume 8 Rocky Jordan 9-11-49 Adventure with AndrayaRocky Jordan 10-2-49 Pattern for RevengeScreen Directors Playhouse 2-13-49 Magnificent Obsession with Irene DunneScreen Directors Playhouse 2-20-49 The Prisoner of Zenda with Ronald & Benita ColmanScreen Directors Playhouse 11-9-50 Shadow of A Doubt with Cary Grant & Betsy DrakeFront Page Farrell 8-12-49 The High Explosive with Staats CottsworthScreen Guild Theatre 4-26-43 Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid BergmanScreen Guild Theatre 11-18-48 Rebecca with Loretta Young & John LundThe Silent Men 12-9-51 Pirates, Twentieth Century Style with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.The Silent Men 1-13-52 Little White Lies with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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  Glenn Miller

  Wink Martindale

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  Despite his first orchestra being a complete failure, Glenn Miller grew to become arguably one of the most famous big band leaders.  Following this early stumble, Miller launched his second band in March of 1938 and went on to achieve great success before his tragic disappearance in 1944.George T. Simon, big band expert, critic, author and a close friend to Glenn Miller, provides listeners with on an overview of Miller’s career.  In his conversation with Wink Martindale, Simon provides an expert look at Miller’s music, career and personal life.

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  The Weird Circle Collection...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  The Weird Circle was an anthology of classic thrillers from the pens of the world’s best-known and respected fiction authors of the 19th Century. The focus was horror and suspense stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mary Shelley (among others) with the occasional drama by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. The Weird Circle was produced in New York by NBC and offered in syndication. The narrator of The Weird Circle sat in a cave by a restless sea and instructed a bell keeper to “Toll the bell so all may know that we are gathered again in the weird circle for another strange and weird story from out of the past.” Casts included New York’s steady pool of busy supporting actors including: Frank Lovejoy, Lawson Zerbe, Eleanor Audley, Jackson Beck, Mason Adams, Raymond Edward Johnson, and Arnold Moss. 
  9/8/44 “The Burial of Roger Malvin”11/17/44 “The Diamond Lens”12/8/44 “The Spectre Bride”12/15/44 “The Tapestry Horse”12/22/44 “The River Man”12/29/44 “The Ancient Mariner”1/5/45 “The Oblong Box”1/12/45 “The Mysterious Bride”2/2/45 “The Pistol Shot”2/9/45 “The Possessive Dead”2/16/45 “The Goblet”4/22/45 “The Bride of Death”

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  Crying in the Rain - The Perfect...

  Mark Ribowsky

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  The Everly Brothers—aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them—seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the blandly regimented '50s, they were a ubiquitous presence, clad in snug suits and skinny ties, hair neatly Brylcreemed, never raising their voices when they sang. The two prim-looking country boys with dark, curiously penetrating eyes and perfectly merged, honey-dipped harmonies, were oddly but comfortably settled as sentimental, soothing, sometimes lovelorn voices of a still-uncharted cultural turf.Magnificent as the duo was, they have until now never received a definitive biography. In Crying in the Rain: The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives Of the Everly Brothers, the details, small and great, roll along on the mighty "Mississippi," in near novel-like fashion, revealing facts drawn from exhaustive research and first-hand interviews that trace the character and influences of these hardy but flawed men who grew from teenagers to old men before our eyes. Mark Ribowsky's authoritative book serves as a fitting companion to an unforgettable collection of songs—heard on countless albums, and covered literally thousands of times—whose recording was a long time gone but that will never be forgotten.

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  Hawks on Hawks

  Joseph McBride

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  A portrait of the renowned film director based on seven years of interviews: “I am very happy that this book exists.” —François Truffaut 
   
  Howard Hawks is often credited as the most versatile of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood’s greatest stars—including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, and Marilyn Monroe—and some of his most celebrated films include Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo. 
   
  Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews that author Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of seven years, giving rare insight into Hawks’s artistic philosophy, his relationships with the stars, and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing. In its new edition, this classic book is both an account of the film legend’s life and work and a guidebook on how to make movies. 
   
  “There are going to be many biographies of Howard Hawks, but they will all lean heavily on this book; the pioneer so honestly reveals himself and the people with whom he worked.” —Los Angeles Times

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