ERICH LEINSDORF GEORGES ENESCO Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet LP Mercury 10021

Erich Leinsdorf

This rare material represents some of theearliest televised concerts with theBoston Symphony and Erich Leinsdorf, and has been restored using thegreatest care and state-of-the-arttechniques. It is of exceptionalmusical interest and historic value.The BSO's Music Director for seven seasons, Leinsdorf had a long and distinguished career, having worked with Toscanini and Walter, conducting at the Metropolitan Opera, New YorkCity Opera, Cleveland Orchestra and Berlin RadioSymphony Orchestra in addition to his tenureat the BSO.This 1969 performance of Tchaikovsky'sFifth Symphony has been the object of someattention from internet bloggers, with one sitefeaturing an almost complete audio recordingof the performance. Readers were astonishedat the intensity and drive behind Leinsdorf'sinterpretation.Because he didn't perform the work regularly(on only 14 occasions with the BSO) theperformance is fresh and insightful theemotional commitment is great both fromLeinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which Richard Dyer describes as 'solid, flexibleand brilliant'.All three featured works are new to Leinsdorf'sdiscography.

This rare material represents some of theearliest televised concerts with theBoston Symphony and Erich Leinsdorf, and has been restored using thegreatest care and state-of-the-arttechniques. It is of exceptionalmusical interest and historic value.The BSO's Music Director for seven seasons, Leinsdorf had a long and distinguished career, having worked with Toscanini and Walter, conducting at the Metropolitan Opera, New YorkCity Opera, Cleveland Orchestra and Berlin RadioSymphony Orchestra in addition to his tenureat the BSO.This 1969 performance of Tchaikovsky'sFifth Symphony has been the object of someattention from internet bloggers, with one sitefeaturing an almost complete audio recordingof the performance. Readers were astonishedat the intensity and drive behind Leinsdorf'sinterpretation.Because he didn't perform the work regularly(on only 14 occasions with the BSO) theperformance is fresh and insightful theemotional commitment is great both fromLeinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which Richard Dyer describes as 'solid, flexibleand brilliant'.All three featured works are new to Leinsdorf'sdiscography.

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Composer's Advocate : Paperback : Yale University Press : 9780300028874 : 0300028873 : 01 Aug 1982

Release Date: July 01, 1989

The Boynton/Cook editions of four of Shakespeare's most popular plays have been reissued with attractive new cover designs and printed on more opaque, easy-to-read paper. This series is specifically designed for high school classes. Students will be able to see each play as a whole. In their introduction to each of the plays, editors Mack and Boynton suggest ways of approaching the text that allow the reader a broad range of imaginative involvement. Their observations are intended to help students read and experience the play, not to discourage them with critical jargon or peripheral historical information. Students will be reading the best text both in terms of visual excellence and quality of scholarship. They'll immediately appreciate the large page format and highly readable typography. Each volume is consistent with the most authoritative early edition of each play. The glosses are full and clear but don't belabor the obvious or clutter the text. Background information includes the editors' detailed analysis of the Elizabethan theatre and its relation to Shakespeare's dramaturgy, C. W. Hodges's drawing re-creating the original Globe Playhouse, a brief account of Shakespeare's life and a chronological listing of his works, and a bibliography, lists of videotapes (VHS), records, and tapes of the complete plays. Students will experience added critical and imaginative dimensions. An essay following each play suggests ways of approaching it as a live dramatic experience in the theatre of the mind. The concern is not how the play might be produced in a theatre, but rather how parts of it may be realized in the imagination through close attention to what the language is saying and suggesting. Students can get a deeper understanding of each scene through helpful, detailed questions included at the back of each volume. These questions encourage group discussion or written response. Also included are topics for longer papers.

"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, " With these first lines, Shakespeare’s timeless play of young love and untimely death begins; as in life, it is sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, always poignantly beautiful. While our emotions are moved by the imagery and rhythms of Shakespeare’s verse, our minds are delighted by the sharpness of his insights into life, death, and the human condition. Written in the mid-1590s, the play is regarded as one of the Bard’s earliest masterpieces. To make Romeo and Juliet more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. In doing this, it is our intention that the reader may more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama.

"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, " With these first lines, Shakespeare’s timeless play of young love and untimely death begins; as in life, it is sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, always poignantly beautiful. While our emotions are moved by the imagery and rhythms of Shakespeare’s verse, our minds are delighted by the sharpness of his insights into life, death, and the human condition. Written in the mid-1590s, the play is regarded as one of the Bard’s earliest masterpieces. To make Romeo and Juliet more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. In doing this, it is our intention that the reader may more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama.

George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume.These new editions have specific emphasis on the performance histories of the plays (on stage and screen).Features of each edition include:- The original introduction to the Kittredge Edition- Editor’s Introduction to the Focus Edition. An overview on major themes of the plays, and sections on the play’s performance history on stage and screen.- Explanatory Notes. The explanatory notes either expand on Kittredge’s superb glosses, or, in the case of plays for which he did not write notes, give the needed explanations for Shakespeare’s sometimes demanding language.- Performance notes. These appear separately and immediately below the textual footnotes and include discussions of noteworthy stagings of the plays, issues of interpretation, and film and stage choices.- How to read the play as Performance Section. A discussion of the written play vs. the play as performed and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s words allow the reader to envision the work "off the page."- Comprehensive Timeline. Covering major historical events (with brief annotations) as well as relevant details from Shakespeare’s life. Some of the Chronologies include time chronologies within the plays. - Topics for Discussion and Further Study Section. Critical Issues: Dealing with the text in a larger context and considerations of character, genre, language, and interpretative problems. Performance Issues: Problems and intricacies of staging the play connected to chief issues discussed in the Focus Editions’ Introduction.- Select Bibliography & FilmographyEach New Kittredge edition also includes screen grabs from major productions, for comparison and scene study.

The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers.  In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: Romeo And Juliet.  In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play West Side Story.  Though one of these works is set among the nobility of Verona, and the other among immigrant families of New York's West Side, both tell the story of the plight of young star-crossed" lovers.As Norris Houghton writes in his introduction: "What we see is that all four young people strive to consummate the happiness at the threshold on which they stand and which they have tasted so briefly.  All four are deprived of the opportunity to do so, the Renaissance couple by the caprice of fate, today's youngsters by the prejudice and hatred engendered around them...."Poets and playwrights will continue to write of youthful lovers whom fate drives into and out of each other's lives.  The spectacle will always trouble and move us, even as the two dramas in this volume do today."