[ebooks] Staging Shakespearean Theatre: The Essential Guide to Selecting; Interpreting; Producing and Directing Shakespeare by Elaine Novak at Arts-Photography

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Georges Barregrave;re (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varegrave;se--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance.Barregrave;res story is a musical tale of two cities; and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management; personnel; and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician; including the increasing power of musicians unions; the role of patronage; particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium.A student of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire; by age eighteen Barregrave;re played in the premiere of Debussys Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. He went on to become solo flutist of the Concerts Colonne and to found the Sociegrave;tegrave; Moderne dInstruments aacute; Vent; a pioneering woodwind ensemble that premiered sixty-one works by forty composers in its first ten years. Invited by Walter Damrosch to become principal flute of the New York Symphony in 1905; he founded the woodwind department at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). His many ensembles toured the United States; building new audiences for chamber music and promoting French repertoire as well as new American music. Toff narrates Barregrave;res relationships with the finest musicians and artists of his day; among them Isadora Duncan; Yvette Guilbert; Andreacute; Caplet; Paul Hindemith; Albert Roussel; Wallingford Riegger; and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book; which list Barregrave;res 170 premieres and the 50 works dedicated to him; are a resource for a new generation of performers.Based on extensive archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States; this is the first biography of Barregrave;re.