Evenings with the OrchestraUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.05.1999 - 381 Seiten During the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified but "civilized" town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the exception of the conscientious bass drummer) tell tales, read stories, and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music they are paid to perform. In this delightful and now classic narrative written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, we are privy to twenty-five highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers. As we near the two-hundredth anniversary of Berlioz's birth, Jacques Barzun's pitch-perfect translation of Evenings with the Orchestra —with a new foreword by Berlioz scholar Peter Bloom—testifies to the enduring pleasure found in this most witty and amusing book. "[F]ull of knowledge, penetration, good sense, individual wit, stock humor, justifiable exasperation, understanding exaggeration, emotion and rhetoric of every kind."—Randall Jarrell, New York Times Book Review "To succeed in [writing these tales], as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet."—W. H. Auden, The Griffin |
Inhalt
Prologue | 5 |
First Evening The First OperaVincenzaThe Vexations of Kleiner the Elder | 9 |
Second Evening The Strolling HarpistThe Perfomance of an OratorioThe Sleep of the Just | 32 |
Third Evening Der Freischütz | 52 |
Fourth Evening A Debut in FreischützMarescot | 53 |
Fifth Evening The S in Robert le diable | 60 |
Sixth Evening How a Tenor Revolves around the PublicThe Vexations of Kleiner the Younger | 64 |
De viris illustribus urbis RomæA Roman WomanVocabulary of the Roman L | 76 |
Fifteenth Evening Another Vexation of Kleiner the Elders | 187 |
Sixteenth Evening Musical and Phrenological StudiesNightmaresThe Puritans of Sacred MusicPaganini | 188 |
Seventeenth Evening The Barber of Seville | 200 |
Eighteenth Evening Charges Leveled against the Authors CriticismAnalysis of The LighthouseThe Piano Possessed | 201 |
Nineteenth Evening Don Giovanni | 221 |
Napoleons Odd SusceptibilityHis Musical JudgmentNapoleon and LesueurNapoleon and | 222 |
TwentyFirst Evening The Study of Music | 228 |
Twentysecond Evening lphigenia in Tauris | 253 |
Eighth Evening Romans of the New WorldMr BarnumJenny Linds Trip to America | 99 |
Ninth Evening The Paris Opéra and Londons Opera Houses | 105 |
Tenth Evening On the Present State of MusicThe Tradition of TackA Victim of Tack | 118 |
Eleventh Evening A Masterpiece | 133 |
Twelfth Evening Suicide from Enthusiasm | 134 |
Thirteenth Evening Spontini a Biographical Sketch | 152 |
Fourteenth Evening Operas off the Assembly LineThe Problem of BeautySchillers Mary StuartA Visit to Tom Thumb | 180 |
Twentythird Evening Gluck and the Conservatory in NaplesA Saying of Durantes | 254 |
Twentyfourth Evening Les Huguenots | 257 |
Twentyfifth Evening Euphonia or the Musical City | 258 |
Epilogue The Farewell Dinner | 298 |
Second Epilogue Corsinos Letter to the AuthorThe Authors Reply to CorsinoBeethoven and His Three StylesBeethovens Statu | 310 |
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