On My Way The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess

Name: On My Way The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess
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ISBN: 9780393240139

ISBN-10: 0393240134

ISBN-13: 9780393240139

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joseph Horowitz

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A forgotten master of American musical theater, Rouben Mamoulian directed the original production of Porgy and Bess, the opera that catapulted his career and led to both successes and failures. Culling newly released information from the Mamoulian Archives at the Library of Congress, Joseph Horowitz shows that, more than any other individual, Mamoulian transformed DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novella, Porgy, from a quasi-realistic regional cameo into an epic theater work about suffering and redemption. In vividly rendered scenes of sound and movement, “On My Way” transports readers to the rehearsals and performances that Mamoulian singularly reconceived and choreographed, and the laudatory or…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298

Joseph Horowitzis the author ofClassical Music in America,Artists in Exile, (UC Press),Understanding Toscanini, andWagner Nights. Previously a New York Times music critic, then Executive Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, he is currently Artistic Director of DC's Post-Classical Ensemble.