Comic-fantastic opera in four acts; libretto by Y.P. Polonsky, after the story by Nikolai Gogol: Christmas Eve. Cast: E. Kruglikova, soprano ; E. Antonova, alto ; G. Nelepp, tenor ; Al. Ivanov, baritone ; M. Mikhailov, bass ; other soloists ; chorus and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre ; Alexander Melik-Pashaiev, conductor.

"Music Research Annual is the first peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing review essays from the full range of academic disciplines that study music. Each article explores the current state of scholarship on a key topic within a discipline or interdisciplinary juncture and charts ways forward to new research. Led by a group of renowned scholars, the journal seeks to forward academic inquiry into music and foster interdisciplinary dialog. MRA is an open-access journal published by the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)."--Publisher's website.

Music Production Cultures draws on interviews with international educators, surveys completed by students of music production from around the globe, doctoral research findings and contextualised career experiences from the author as a celebrated music producer to explore how effective learning environments can be created for popular music production in higher education. Acknowledging the musical, technological and social diversity in global popular music production practice, this book highlights the integral elements that educators and their institutions must consider in order to provide high-quality and relevant education for the students of today and into the future. Offering concepts, approaches and practices to be integrated into diverse music production pedagogical frameworks in higher education, this book considers the pedagogical approaches and goals that bridge music production education to the industry, using examples and insights from international educators throughout as well as lesson plan examples for instructors. Music Production Cultures develops a foundation of practice to inform teachers designing equitable, diverse and inclusive pedagogies that are dependent on the musical, cultural and social influences of their students. This is an invaluable resource for educators and researchers in the area of audio education looking to develop their pedagogical strategies.

Includes International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and word for word translations, including a guide to the I.P.A. and notes on Italian phonetics

In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvořák prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, he looks back to literary figures?Emerson, Melville, and Twain?to ponder how American music can connect with a "usable past." The result is a ?new paradigm? that makes room for Black composers including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Dawson, and Florence Price to redefine the classical canon.

Neither a feature film nor a documentary, Revenge of the dead Indians is a celebration of John Cage's work, influences, and thoughts as viewed by an eclectic group of 42 personalities; the well-known and the unknown, in conversation with each other, presented within a visual and sonic montage. The result is an unexpected and fascinating combination of intellectual thought, views and opinions.

DVD. Bilson presents a 1 1/2 hour lecture demonstration on the expressive information found in the scores of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev, Schubert and Bartók; in
addition he talks about period instruments with interviewer David Owen Norris and performs Schubert's Moments Musicaux nos. 2 and 3 and Haydn's Fantasia in C.