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Blue Mountain: A Chamber Opera For Winds And Voices By Justin Dello Joio: A Unique Contribution For Wind Band Literature, Armando Saldarini

Dissertations

Blue Mountain is an opera in one act scored for four voices, and thirty-three instruments, commissioned by Det Norske Blaseensemble. Under the direction of Kenneth Jean, the premiere took place on October 8, 2007, at Kanonhalen in Oslo, Norway, as part of the Edvard Grieg Centennial celebrations and the 2007 Ultima contemporary Music Festival. The opera takes place in Troldhaugen, Norway, during the last days of Edvard Grieg’s life. Suffering from emphysema, Grieg was being treated by his doctor with morphine that created great anxiety, fear, and mental torment. A visit from his friend, Percy Grainger, gave Grieg great …

Songs Of Love And Loss, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera

All Music Department Programs

Opera Scenes program, featuring scenes from opera and musical theatre.

Second program of two presented.

Songs Of Love And Loss, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera

All Music Department Programs

Opera and Musical theatre scenes program, Fall 2014.

First program of two presented.

Marshall University Music Department Presents Amahl And The Night Visitors, By Gian-Carlo Menotti, Featuring The, Marshall University Opera Theatre, Linda Dobbs, Director, And The, Sanctuary Choir Of Johnson Memorial United Methodist Church, Robert Wray, Director, Linda Dobbs, Robert Wray

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Mu Opera Theatre, 2013 Opera Gala, Linda Dobbs

Linda Dobbs

No abstract provided.

Center Stage: Operatic Culture And Nation Building In Nineteenth-Century Central Europe, Philipp Ther

Central European Studies

Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon …

The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Dallas Heaton, Usu Opera

All Music Department Programs

Composed by Otto Nicolai.

A Comic Opera in Three Acts, produced by USU Opera under the direction of Dallas Heaton.

Marshall University Music Department Presents Amahl And The Night Visitors, Linda Dobbs, Robert Wray

Robert Wray

No abstract provided.

Love, Lust, And Loss: A Senior Recital/An Afternoon Of Contemporary Works, Emily Cedriana Donato

Senior Projects Spring 2014

I am graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College’s Music Department as a classical vocalist. For my senior project I have put together a set of two recitals. My goal was to create contrasting programs that were interesting, each with a specific theme.

The first recital took place on Sunday, December 15th at 7:00 p.m. in the László Z. Bitó Conservatory Performance Space. The concert was titled “Love, Lust and Loss: A Senior Recital” and it explored these themes while demonstrating a wide range of abilities in my voice. Throughout all musical eras, composers have written about …