author: w anthony sheppard

Sondheim in Our Time and His

... song's headlong rush through the third rotation, the final B section retains ... Town.” The background model in this song is not the parallel- period form but rather the thirty ... Me and My Town,” “double spotlight” Anyone Can Whistle 113.

Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination

... Sayonara, with book by William Luce, lyrics by Hy Gilbert, and music by George Fischoff, was billed as “A New Musical Adapted from the novel by James A. Michener.” The musical was first produced at the New Jersey Paper Mill Playhouse in ...

Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater

... music , and bold aes- thetic pronouncements . On the first page of his 1936 autobiography , Stravin- sky promised ... neoclassical period , Stravinsky was criticized for hav- ing abandoned his " true " modernist style and for self - ...

Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination

... music of Japanese gagaku that flourished in the eighth and ninth centuries ... score of Music for 18 Musicians (1974–1976), Steve Reich states that ... Music Encounter in Tokyo proved particularly important to the career of Lou Harrison ...

Un/Masking: Reflections on a Transformative Process

... mask : prósopon indicates both the face and the mask that actors would have worn in Greek theater , while the Latin word for mask , persona , similarly indicates the mask as well as the theatrical and social role.25 It appears then that ...

Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater

Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater W. Anthony Sheppard. Oedipus Rex , Gide or any other potential collaborator should indeed ... chorus : Stravinsky , Oedipus Rex Hellenism in Modernist Performance 1 67.

Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination

Japan in the American Musical Imagination W. Anthony Sheppard. end of the ... musicians and the extensive Afro-Asian musical crossings of recent decades is suggested ... Asian musical instruments more prominently in a 306 Extreme Exoticism.

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