[PDF] Prima eBook

Author : Leigh Lowe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Latin language, Postclassical
ISBN : 9781930953512

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Prima Latina is a preparatory Latin course for young students who are still becoming familiar with English grammar. It is intended for teachers with no background in Latin and was developed for children in kindergarten thru third grade.

Author : Al Gury
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0823098346

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Alla Prima is a comprehensive guide to direct painting, characterised by bold, expressive brushwork and a painterly, atmospheric surface. It covers the history of the direct methods in both Europe and America. From there, it includes detailed step-by-step lessons and discussions on drawing structure, broken and smooth brushwork, and colour development.

Author : Stanislaw Turlej
Publisher : Wydawnictwo UJ
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 832339556X

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The book explores the history of Justiniana Prima, a city built by Emperor Justinian I (527-565) in his birthplace near Niš in present-day Serbia. Previous studies focused on determining the city's location, underestimating the significance of analyzing written sources for the reconstruction of this city's genesis and importance. Using information from Emperor Justinian's Novels XI and CXXXI, as well as Book IV of Procopius of Caesarea's De aedificiis, Stanislaw Turlej endeavors to show that Justiniana Prima's historic significance resulted from granting its Church the status of an archbishopric with its own province in 535, which was independent of Rome. Justinian wanted to introduce profound changes to the ecclesiastical organization based on state law.

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1569768137

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Both a love story and a tribute to the entertainment mecca, this exploration shines a spotlight on one of the hottest acts in Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The illuminating depiction showcases the unlikely duo--a grizzled, veteran trumpeter and vocalist molded by Louis Armstrong and a meek singer in the church choir--who went on to invent "The Wildest." Bringing together broad comedy and finger-snapping, foot-stomping music that included early forays into rock and roll, Prima and Smith's act became wildly popular and attracted all kinds of star-studded attention. In addition to chronicling their relationships with Ed Sullivan, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and other well-known entertainers of the day--and their performance of "That Old Black Magic" at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration--the narrative also examines the couple's ongoing influence in the entertainment world. Running concurrent with their personal tale is their role in transforming Las Vegas from a small resort town in the desert to a booming city where the biggest stars were paid tons of money to become even bigger stars on stage and television.

Author : Lanfranco Rasponi
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Woman singers
ISBN :

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Interviews with fifty-six great operatic divas of the twentieth century illuminate their lives, their art, and the world of modern opera.

Author : Garry Boulard
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252070907

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"This is the first paperback edition of the only biography of Louis Prima, one of the most underrated jazz musicians and entertainers of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned four decades, Prima infused the grit and grace of Dixieland jazz with swing and big band sounds, the first whiffs of rock 'n' roll, and a vaudevillian-like stage presence. A native of New Orleans, the Guy Lombardo protg known as ""The Italian Satchmo"" was the country's smashing new jazz sensation at New York's Famous Door in the 1930s. He went on to be a successful big band leader and a Vegas nightclub staple, and he virtually created the concept of the lounge act. Despite his longstanding success, Prima's over-the-top on-stage antics induced critics to not take him seriously and he was relegated to the status of mere ""entertainer.""Married five times and involved with numerous women in between, Prima has more often been remembered for his colorful relationships and quirky personality than for his abilities as a trumpeter and singer. After his death in 1978, his music gradually disappeared and jazz scholars rarely mentioned his name.Nudging Prima's legacy into the limelight the musician deserved, Garry Boulard nimbly explores Prima's ability to maintain a lifelong career, his knack for self-promotion, and how the cities in which he lived and performed--New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas--uniquely and indelibly informed his style. In a new preface, the author considers how the resurgence of big band and swing music in the late 1990s catapulted Prima and his music back into the public eye."

Author : Katie Swatland
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Painting, American
ISBN : 9780977829613

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Alla Prima II Companion is a comprehensive guide outlining Richard Schmid's material, tool and techniques written from the perspective of his student Katie Swatland. The book offers full explanations of all painting preparations, with step-by-step images illustrating each process. Both Katie Swatland and Richard Schmid offer painting demonstrations with sequential images showing the developmental stages of Richard's paintings.