Author : David Berkowitz
Publisher : Birch Brook Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN :
BEHIND THE GOLD CURTAIN: 50 YEARS IN THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA, a reminiscence by David Berkowitz in collaboration with Dolores Soyer. A violist in the Met's legendary orchestra for half a century, Berkowitz relives the trials and triumphs of the orchestra, from labor troubles to world-wide acclaim. A fascinating view of what makes Grand Opera tick.
Author : Robert Carse
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152050481
As Nurse Lugton dozes, the animals on the patterned curtain she is sewing come alive.
Author : Heikki Eskelinen
Publisher : Routledge Revivals
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2019-12-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781138612174
First published in 1999, this book examines the construction of new political, economic and mental borders in post-Cold War Europe. Various national and regional settings are analyzed along the old East-West divide. In post-Cold War Europe the East-West divide no longer exists in the form of the clear-cut Iron Curtain, separating two security blocs, two politico-economic systems, and two ideologically and culturally distinct worlds. Still, it remains clearly discernible, both in the form of unrelenting politico-cultural differences and as an economic Golden Curtain. At the same time, a more complicated system of intersecting political, economic and mental borders keeps developing. Today, there are various scales of interaction, which produce distinctive national, regional and local experiences of borders. In this book, the construction of new political, economic and mental borders is analysed by specialists from both sides of the former East-West divide. The future of European borders is discussed in various national and regional settings, from the Barents Region in the North to the Old Habsburgian lands in 'Mitteleuropa'.
Author : Norman England
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781937220105
Norman England's gutsy and insightful stories will do more than just entertain. This is the first and only book in English to take you on a deep dive into the Japanese film industry. You will join well-known directors, cast, and staff for tales of backroom set dealings. The author's own unlikely story starts with joining the Japanese crew on a George Romero-directed TV commercial shot in Los Angeles. Afterward, in Tokyo, Norman England learns to navigate the sets of giant monster icons Gamera and Godzilla. The book concludes with the premiere of Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. This diary from the front lines is essential reading for Japanese cinema enthusiasts and filmmakers everywhere.
Author : Marc Headley
Publisher : BFG Books Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0982502222
Marc Headley started working for the Scientology organization in 1989. After leaving in 2005, Marc posted bits and pieces of what went on at the Scientology headquarters (known from inside as the International Base). Marc posted anonymously under the screen name of Blownforgood aka BFG. In September 2008 Marc was invited to speak to an international conference of European government representatives regarding the Scientology organization and their abuses. It was at this time that Marc revealed his identity as Blownforgood. By 2009, the internet posts Marc had written over the years had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, but still there were people who questioned their validity. Stories of grown men being thrown into dirty lakes and pools as punishment? Physical abuse never reported to authorities? How could this happen in modern day America? Two years after Marc wrote about these things and posted them on the internet, a Pulitzer Prize winning U.S. newspaper printed accounts from former staff member who worked at the Int Base that matched and confirmed what Marc had written about. Not only that, Scientology officials admitted that these things had taken place! Find out what they did not talk about in Blown for Good.
Author : Johanna Fiedler
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1400032318
If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met’s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years when haughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of a company that would emerge as America’s premiere opera house. She takes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent years as well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances and scandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler’s portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies—Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager—and their once strained relationship. Weaving together the personal, economic, and artistic struggles that characterize the Met’s long and vibrant history, Molto Agitato is a must-read saga of power, wealth, and, above all, great music.
Author : Riley LaShea
Publisher : Midnight Jasmine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781955155021
When Caton's sleazy boss offers her a position as his wife's personal assistant, she accepts the job with reservations, certain Jack Halston has ulterior motives. After meeting Jack's wife Amelia, though, it's Caton's motivations that begin to unravel. As vicious as she is beautiful, Amelia threatens Caton's position and her sense of decorum. As the attraction between the two women spirals into a torrid affair, Caton is drawn deeper into Jack and Amelia's world of privilege and prestige, where everything is at stake and nothing is what it seems. Behind the Green Curtain is a dark, erotic romance with numerous descriptive sex scenes intended for a mature audience.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780878057481
The expatriate, one of America's greatest black writers, giving a bold assessment of the world's outlook on race, a report of the Bandung Conference of 1955.
Author : Joseph A. Michelli
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071641637
Discover the secrets of world-class leadership! When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed. The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization. He emerged with the key principles leaders at any company can use to provide a customer experience unlike any other, such as: Understanding the ever-evolving needs of customers Empowering employees by treating them with the utmost respect Anticipating customers' unexpressed needs and concerns Developing and conducting an unsurpassed training regimen Sharing engaging stories from the company's employees--from the corporate office and hotels around the globe--Michelli describes the innovative methods the company uses to create peerless guest experiences and explains how it constantly hones and improves them. The New Gold Standard weaves practical how-to advice, proven leadership tools, and the wisdom of experts to help you create and embed superior customer-service principles, processes, and practices in your own organization.
