Cathy Berberian and Music's MusesJennifer Paull, 2007 - 310 Seiten This richly illustrated anthology (containing more than 120 photographs and images) heralds the 25th anniversary of the demise of Cathy Berberian. The celebrated mezzo-soprano, composer, polyhistor and artistic non-conformist died in March 1983 at the age of 57. Jennifer Paull paints her close friend's portrait with perceptive detail and personal reminiscences analysing Berberian's unique standpoint. Paull applies Berberian's comparativist perspective to exploring a miscellany of Music's fascinating facts, stimulating surprises and other musicians who are quintessentially 'different'. The role of the woman, the lack of division between the Arts; dance, design, fashion, imagination, humour, languages, theatre and wit: these, her eclectic components, shaped the borderless artistic landscape of Cathy Berberian into an ingenious philosophy herein elucidated, illustrated and applied. Cathy Berberian's due stature in the History of Music has yet to be fully recognised and sufficiently appreciated. |
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American Anna Russell artist Bach Baroque bass bassoon Beatles beautiful Brahms British Bruno Maderna career Cathy Berberian Cathy's Charles Ives colour composer composition contemporary creative culture d’amore dance death delight Derek Donald Justice double reed English ensemble everything Felix film flute French Fritz Fritz Spiegl Gilles Apap h{er|is humour idea imagination ingredients inside inspiration instrument Italian Joachim John Cage Joyce Grenfell Kipnis knew language later listen live Liverpool Luciano Berio melody Mendelssohn Mezey movement musician never notes obligato oboe d'amore oboist one’s Opera original passion performance Philharmonic piano piece play player poet première programme Proust Rabushka recital recording rehearsal répertoire rôle sadly Samuel Barber Schumann score Sequenza simply sing singer solo soloist song sound Stravinsky string style Symphony Orchestra talent thing tion translation Victor Herbert viola Violin Concerto vocal voice wind wonderful words write written wrote XXth century