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  Putting It Together - How...

  James Lapine

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  Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, James Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat’s nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Through conversations between Lapine and Sondheim, as well as most of the production team, the two Broadway icons lift the curtain on their beloved musical. Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friendship and the highs and lows of that journey, one that resulted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.

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  From an Antique Land - Visual...

  Anne MacLeod

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  With 100 historic illustrations, this scholarly study explores how visual depictions of the Scottish Highlands influenced perceptions of the region. Early in the 18th century, the Scottish Highlands became a source of fascination across the British Isles. Artists, illustrators, and mapmakers capitalized on the trend by producing popular images of rural life and dramatic landscapes. In From an Antique Land, Anne MacLeod brings a fresh analysis to these images, exploring what they reveal about cultural perceptions of the remote region and its people. Illustrated with 100 plates—including a broad range of maps, plans, paintings, drawings, sketches and printed images—this volume demonstrates that the concept of antiquity was the single most powerful influence driving the visual representation of the Highlands and Islands from 1700 to 1880, and indeed beyond. MacLeod also looks at archaeological, ethnological and geological influences that contributed to this bias in favor of antiquity. The book concludes that the shadow of time which hallmarked visual representations of the region resulted in a preservationist mentality which has had powerful repercussions for approaches to Highland issues down to the present day. The book will appeal to historians, art historians, cultural geographers, and the general reader interested in Highland history and culture.

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  Music in the Shadows - Noir...

  Sheri Chinen Biesen

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  An analysis of Hollywood films that blend elements of musicals and film noir, from the author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. 
   
  Welcome to the world of “noir musical” films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers. 
   
  In her pioneering study, Music in the Shadows, film noir expert Sheri Chinen Biesen explores musical films that use film noir style and jazz to inhabit a disturbing underworld and reveal the dark side of fame and the American Dream. While noir musical films like A Star Is Born (1954) include musical performances, their bleak tone and expressionistic aesthetic more closely resemble the visual style of film noir. Their narratives unfold behind a stark noir lens: distorted, erratic angles and imbalanced hand-held shots allow the audience to experience a tortured, disillusioned perspective. 
   
  While many musicals glamorize the quest for the Hollywood spotlight, brooding noir musical films such as Blues in the Night, Gilda, The Red Shoes, West Side Story, and Round Midnight stretch the boundaries of film noir and the musical as film genres collide. Deep shadows, dim lighting, and visual composition evoke moodiness, cynicism, pessimism, and subjective psychological points of view. 
   
  Biesen draws on extensive primary research in studio archives to situate her examination within a historical, industrial, and cultural context. 
   
  “Biesen builds a fascinating and quite convincing case for a genre hybrid, the noir musical, that took root in the 1940s but has continued to evolve ever since.” —Thomas Schatz, The University of Texas at Austin

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  The story of success - BR Ambedkar

  Gurmeet

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  The sucess of Baba Saheb. 
  This story about Dr. B.R Ambedkar. He was a legend person. He was member of Parliament of Rajya sabha in Bombay state. (14 Apr. 1891 to 6 Dec. 1956).This story about Dr. B.R Ambedkar.

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  Website Advertising: The...

  Leonard Abram

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  Website Advertising: The Ultimate Guide on Website Advertising, Discover the Effective Strategies on How to Increase Your Website Traffic Through Advertising  and PromotionOne of the numerous benefits we got from the internet is that it was able to help a lot of people start their own online businesses. Some of them would not even have thought of opening their own business if not for the advent of the internet. There are many ways to earn money online and one of them is through advertising. If you have a website or a blog, you could be earning money by selling advertising. But website advertising is not as easy as it sounds but anyone can certainly learn how to become successful with it.This audiobook will teach you all the essential information about website advertising. You will learn the ways on how you could generate income on your site through advertising. You will learn how to plan and formulate strategies for selling ad spaces to make sure you will earn money from it.  This audiobook will discuss the following details: - Website Advertising Drives Results- Closer Look at Banner Ad- Different Web Ads Serve Different Purposes- How to Create an Effective Banner Ad- What to Look For In Sites When You Want to Advertise- What’s up Nest for Advertising on the Web- Selling Ad Space on the Web- Types of Web-Based Ads- Buying and Selling Web-based Advertising- Banners Ads VS Other Types of Ads- Evolution of Web-based Advertising- Introducing Television Commercials to the Web Website advertising has really changed the face of advertising. More and more companies are now deciding to advertise online rather than other traditional forms of advertising. The web has become one of the best advertising outlets available and you should certainly pay attention and take advantage of this and learn how you can generate income from it.To learn more about website advertising, scroll up and click “add to cart” now.

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  Mozart in Italy - Coming of Age...

  Jane Glover

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  'You don’t have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book utterly engrossing . . . I couldn’t put it down' - Joanna LumleyAn expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart’s formative trips to Italy. At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold was now determined to conquer Italy. Together, they made three visits there the last when Mozart was seventeen, all vividly recounted here by acclaimed conductor Jane Glover.Father and son travelled from the theatres and concert salons of Milan to the church-filled streets of Rome to Naples, poorer and more dangerous than the prosperous north, and to Venice, the carnivalesque birthplace of public opera. All the while Mozart was absorbing Italian culture, language, style and art, and honed his craft. He met the challenge of writing Italian opera for Italian singers and audiences and provoked a variety of responses, from triumph and admiration to intrigue and hostility: in a way, these Italian years can be seen as a microcosm of his whole life.Evocative, beautifully written and with a profound understanding of eighteenth-century classical music, Mozart in Italy reveals how what he experienced during these Italian journeys changed Mozart – and his music – for ever.

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