[PDF] Aria Song Of A Life eBook

Author : Riki Turofsky
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491743956

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Riki Turofsky is a survivor who has faced down the darkest of challenges to create a positive future. In her uplifting narrative about loss, disloyalty, self-preservation, glamour, success, and love, Turofsky chronicles her tragedies as well as triumphs as she journeys from childhood into womanhood and evolves from a young, insecure woman into a confident opera singer. Turofsky begins by detailing a childhood overflowing with happiness and security, fun-filled family car trips, scrumptious food, and much music that unfortunately came to an abrupt and tragic end with the loss of both parents-one from suicide. As she describes her days living with a foster family where she somehow found solace and healing through music, two failed marriages marked by betrayal, her pursuit of an unlikely career while raising a child as a single mother, and unfathomable grief after the heartbreaking loss of her daughter, Turofsky offers hope and inspiration as she provides a glimpse into how she managed to push beyond her pain each time and rebuild her life. Aria: Song of a Life shares the multi-layered, fascinating story of a beloved opera singer's life journey as she overcomes the odds, realizes acclaim, and discovers the power of love.

Author : Riki Turofsky
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491743972

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Riki Turofsky is a survivor who has faced down the darkest of challenges to create a positive future. In her uplifting narrative about loss, disloyalty, self-preservation, glamour, success, and love, Turofsky chronicles her tragedies as well as triumphs as she journeys from childhood into womanhood and evolves from a young, insecure woman into a confident opera singer. Turofsky begins by detailing a childhood overflowing with happiness and security, fun-filled family car trips, scrumptious food, and much music that unfortunately came to an abrupt and tragic end with the loss of both parentsone from suicide. As she describes her days living with a foster family where she somehow found solace and healing through music, two failed marriages marked by betrayal, her pursuit of an unlikely career while raising a child as a single mother, and unfathomable grief after the heartbreaking loss of her daughter, Turofsky offers hope and inspiration as she provides a glimpse into how she managed to push beyond her pain each time and rebuild her life. Aria: Song of a Life shares the multi-layered, fascinating story of a beloved opera singers life journey as she overcomes the odds, realizes acclaim, and discovers the power of love.

Author : Dia Calhoun
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780786238637

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In the magical kingdom of Windward, thirteen-year-old Cerinthe arrives at the Royal Dancing School, where she finds herself torn between the two careers of dancer and healer.

Author : Ferentz Lafargue
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030749795X

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“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” —Stevie Wonder, “Sir Duke” In 2003, young professor Ferentz LaFargue traveled to Paris, where his fiancée, Tricia, declared she wasn’t happy with their relationship, ending what he thought was a wonderful engagement. After days of “craying”—“that sorrow-laden blend of crying and praying delivered in perfect pitch by those in mourning”—Ferentz happened upon Stevie Wonder’s 1976 classic double album Songs in the Key of Life. Listening to it anew was a healing, spiritual trip down memory lane, helping him to come to terms with his breakup and reflect on how songs in general have been linked to his life. In this book, Ferentz invites us to get cozy and listen as he hits PLAY on meaningful tracks from Wonder and others, including Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, LL Cool J, Beenie Man, Sheryl Crow, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, and Black Sabbath. He recalls: How the fusion of rock and rap in the breakthrough Run-D.M.C./Aerosmith video “Walk This Way” helped to change an adolescent Ferentz from outcast to authority figure How Michael Jackson’s Thriller brought back a traumatic childhood experience How Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” speaks to the tension between his Christian beliefs and his need to rip it up in clubs as a hip-hop head In the tradition of Nick Hornby’s Songbook¸ these words paint a portrait of a life framed by sounds, allowing all of us to think about what songs have been key in our own lives.

Author : Hilary Poriss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199744653

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This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.

Author : Ginger Dellenbaugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501379046

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More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, “La Divina Assoluta,” remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her definitive mastery of iconic opera roles to her love affairs and tantrums. The prototype for the 20th century celebrity diva, Callas emblematizes the cliche of tormented talent – genius in the ring with catastrophe. Her extraordinary voice, in particular, has become an object of cult-like adoration and cultural significance almost with a life of its own: as fetish object, as sophisticated sonic signifier, and most recently, as the lifeblood for a Callas hologram. Such adoration is not without consequences. When Callas is transformed into a vessel for such transcendent magic, it overshadows what is perhaps her most superhuman ability – the masterful technique she deployed to shape and craft her astounding instrument. Singing bodies are working bodies, enacting an intimate and complex form of artistic labor and cultural signification. Using one of Callas's first recital recordings from 1954, this book envisions each aria as a lens to examine various aspects of vocalization and cultural reception of the feminized voice in both classical and pop culture, from Homer's Sirens to Star Trek. With references to works by Marina Abramovic, Charles Baudelaire, Michel Chion, Wayne Koestenbaum, Greil Marcus, and Farah Jasmine Griffin, as well as films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jonathan Demme, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, each chapter explores phenomena unique to the singing voice, including the operatic screaming point, the politics of listening, and the singing simulacrum.

Author : Holly Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2022
Category :
ISBN :

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A Woman Can Dream, Can't She? is a soprano recital of art songs and arias from the Romantic and 20th Century periods of Western Music. The selections are unified around a theme of dreams; the dreams of a woman longing for connection and creation through love and music. Each piece displays the poetic and compositional characteristics common to each of these eras, and together with the unique qualities of each composer and poet comprises a set of arias and art songs which animate the expanse and flavor of dreams. Additionally, each selection expresses this theme as it relates to my personal journey as a woman, a mother, and an artist. This autobiographical aspect renders a deeply personal program of music which mirrors my experiences as an undergraduate in Boston and culminating with recent experiences of personal and musical exploration at California State University, Northridge. Accompanied by Helen Wu on piano, the program contains works of composers from the Romantic and 20th Century eras of Western music. A set of Italian bel canto art songs Vaga luna, che inargenti by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) and Aragonese by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) begins the program, followed by Gustav Mahler's (1860-1911) Rückert-Lieder, with text by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) with a Bellini aria Come per me sereno from his opera La Sonnambula, closing the first half of the program. Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) epic art song Vocalise Op. 32, No 14, opens the second half of the program, followed by a set of selections from Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Ariettes oubliées, with text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Next is Benjamin Britten's (1913-1976) aria How Beautiful It Is from his 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw, based on the Henry James novella, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper (1911-1997). A final set of three English art songs begins with William Walton's (1902-1983) Through Gilded Trellises with text by Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) with two selections from the Aaron Copland (1900-1990) / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) collaboration Heart, We Will Forget Him and Why do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? concluding the program. This program of works by Rossini, Bellini, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Mahler, Britten, Walton, and Copland represents a colorful and evocative swath of art songs and arias of the Romantic and Twentieth Century periods of composition and poetry. The composer and poet in each selection create a singular universe with human life and the human heart at its center. As a collection of works in concert, this music creates a living dream of connection, artistry, life, and love.

Author : George Selden
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1466863625

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After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick, Harry the Cat. The escapades of these four friends in bustling New York City makes for lively listening and humorous entertainment. And somehow, they manage to bring a taste of success to the nearly bankrupt newsstand. Join Chester Cricket and his friends in this classic children's book by George Selden, with illustrations by Garth Williams. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book.

Author : Margaret Warner Morley
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781497964242

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

Author : Ginger Dellenbaugh
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Voice (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9781501379055

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"More than 40 years after her death, the extraordinary voice of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," still remains unsurpassed. It has the power to divide critics, some finding it monstrous, others transcendent. Artists like Patti Smith, Linda Ronstadt and Nina Simone have cited Callas as a major influence and inspiration. She remains one of the most important female voices of the 20th century. Much has been written about Callas's sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her clashes with other artists, affair with billionaire playboy Aristotle Onassis, to her tragic death in 1977. And yet, the fascination with Callas's biography tends to overshadow her most seemingly superhuman qualities - her astounding voice and masterful technique. Callas often spoke of her voice as if it were something external, independent of her, with its own will, failings and desires. Nevertheless, she was a diva with iron discipline, taming her voice to forge roles that have become legendary. Using one of Callas's first recital recordings from 1954 as a foundation, this book envisions each song, each aria, as a lens to examine phenomena as diverse as the operatic screaming point, feminism and the voice, and music and violence"--