Overview
A collection of critical writings on music from the Nobel Prizeāwinning playwright behind Saint Joan and Man and Superman.
The Critical Shaw: On MusicĀ is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shawās extensive writings on a wide range of musical topics. Still recognized as one of Great Britainās most important music critics, Shaw enriched Londonās musical scene for some twenty years with his provocative, original, and penetrating reviews, before giving up music criticism to concentrate his talents on playwriting. His vast critical output encompassed opera, operetta, vocal and orchestral performance, musical theater, and oratorios, and took in major composers and performers as well as many long since forgotten names. Frequently embellished by his controversial political and social opinions, and delving as well into the nature of music criticism itself, Shawās reviews continue to stimulate and surprise, their depth and range setting standards that are rarely, if ever, matched today. Included in this edition is a previously unpublished draft on voice training prepared by Shaw for Vandeleur Lee, his motherās singing teacher.
The Critical ShawĀ series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shawās voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shawās life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.This book title, Bernard Shaw on Music, ISBN: 9780795348945, by C.D. Innes, Brigitte Bogar, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (February 29, 2016) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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