|
Shattering Leeds myths: Hilary Young welcomes an authoritative survey of the Leeds Pottery, which incisively dispels the many legends that have grown up around this major factory, best known for its creamwares.(Book Review)
Apollo
|
January 1, 2006|
|
COPYRIGHT 2006 Apollo Magazine Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
(Hide copyright information)
Copyright
|
The Leeds Pottery, 17700-1881
JOHN D. GRIFFIN
Leeds Art Collection Fund Two volumes, 75 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 0 300 10625 4
The Leeds Pottery was a major manufacturer of creamware and other types of pottery in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. At its peak, the factory was operating on a huge scale, using up to 9,000 tons of coal a year in 1807-1808, and it was exporting its wares to Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the Low Countries, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Italy, South America and elsewhere. Although best known for ...
|
Powerful 'Belshazzar' performances a must-hear
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune
; ...scale performance of the composer's "Belshazzar." Saturday's concert, which repeats...same librettist, Charles Jennens), "Belshazzar" is based on the Old Testament tale...downfall of the kingdom and the death of Belshazzar at the hands of the Persians. The score...
|
|
KIMMEL CONCERT TO FEATURE STONE IN 'BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST'
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Orchestra and Combined Choirs perform Belshazzar's Feast at Temple's fifth annual...faculty last year, Stone described Belshazzar's Feast as "a goose-bump piece...Grammy Award-winning album in 1990. "Belshazzar's Feast is truly a tour de force for...
|
|
HANDEL: Belshazzar
Magazine article from: Opera News
; HANDEL: Belshazzar Auger, Robbin; Bowman, Rolfe Johnson...budget reissue of this compelling 1990 Belshazzar proves doubly welcome, since the only...0630-10275), is hard to find. Belshazzar, with a libretto by the same Charles...
|
|
Music; A Bracing `Belshazzar'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; George Frideric Handel called his "Belshazzar" an oratorio because this tag allowed...And by any name, the performance of "Belshazzar" Sunday at the Maryland Handel Festival...army that captured Babylon and killed Belshazzar, and one of its episodes is the diversion...
|
|
`BELSHAZZAR' HAS MODERN RELEVANCE AND MUSICAL RADIANCE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Handel composed his oratorio "Belshazzar" in one month in 1744. The Biblical...into character. The music in "Belshazzar" is abundant, varied, profound...way, exciting. The chorus warns Belshazzar a cappella; then, at the name...
|
 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
|
BYU singers, musicians set 'Belshazzar's Feast'
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; PROVO -- William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast" -- a concert piece...by the BYU School of Music, "Belshazzar's Feast" is an oratorio first...after the miraculous downfall of Belshazzar and the Babylonian kingdom. The...
|
|
|
A STIRRING 'BELSHAZZAR' BY CANTATA SINGERS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...director, in a performance of Handel's "Belshazzar" in Jordan Hall Saturday night. For...oratorio about the fate of nations, "Belshazzar." Our new leaders would have been...the demands of her religious faith; Belshazzar, the cheerful hedonist; the saintly...
|
|
'Belshazzar': Brilliant concept; soloists a letdown
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...s performance of Handel's oratorio Belshazzar proved that the Handel renaissance is...Theresienstadt. It is the inmates who stage the Belshazzar, a story with a universal message in...incompetent tenor Gunter Neuman to sing Belshazzar. The two Persians were exceptions...
|
|
Album reviews: Belshazzar's Feast: The Dream of Gerontius
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST: THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS Various...barnstorming recording of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and the careful rendition...the exiled Jews, and the wrongness of Belshazzar, to perfection. Meanwhile, Vernon...
|
|
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast, Henry V, 2 Pieces for Strings, Partita for Orchestra. (Leonard Slatkin, London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Thomas Allen) (sound recording reviews)
Magazine article from: Consumers' Research Magazine
; Walton: Belshazzar's Feast, Henry V: 2 Pieces for Strings, Partita for Orchestra...Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. RCA Victor CD 60813 2. The major work, Belshazzar's Feast, premiered in 1931. It stands as a milestone choral work...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Shattering Leeds myths: Hilary Young welcomes an ..."
