The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the T ...Show more
Ballet De La Nuit by Michael Burden
$150.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Wendy Hilton Dance & Music Series
This new study brings together visual images and scholarly discussion of "Le Ballet de la Nuit", a major ballet de cour organised by Louis de Hesselin and first performed in the Louvre's Salle du Petit Bourbon in 1653. "Le Ballet de la Nuit" was notable for many reasons: most prominent among them was th ...Show more
Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945-1965 by Alan Brissenden
$70.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Illustrated with a wealth of photographs and designs for decor and costumes, most never before published, Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945-1965 surveys the major companies, the many smaller groups which flourished, modern dance, the beginnings of Aboriginal theatrical dance which became ...Show more
Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again: Volume 2 by Darwin Porter
$38.95 AUD
Category: Film
Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one--especially not the dead...and Volume One is only the tip of the iceberg. (NY DAILY NEWS) This monumentally exhaustive collection of sins, foibles, failings, and sexual adventures is the ultimate guilty pleasure. (BOOKS TO WATCH OUT FOR) Many of Hollywood's ...Show more
Theatre by David Mamet
$30.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in "Theatre", the acclaimed author of "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Speed the Plow", calls for nothing less than the ...Show more
Take 100 : The Future of Film: 100 New Directors by Editors of Phaidon Press
$120.00 AUD
Category: Film
Following the successful formula of previous Phaidon "10x10" titles, this new book in the series will present 100 of the world's most exceptional emerging film directors, selected by internationally prominent festival directors including Frederic Maire/Locarno, Piers Handling & Cameron Bailey/Toront ...Show more
The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Theatre
Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, "Death in Venice", seeks advice from his f ...Show more
The Gilded Stage: The Social History of Opera by Daniel Snowman
$99.95 AUD
Category: Music
This is the first and only global social history the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: Opera. Opera, the most complex of all the performance arts, inspires great passions. From its beginnings in the Renaissance cities of northern Italy it has spread acros ...Show more
Everything is Connected: The Power of Music by Daniel Barenboim
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
'The power of music lies in is its ability to speak to all aspects of the human being-the animal, the emotional, the intellectual, and the spiritual. Music teaches us, in short, that everything is connected' Daniel Barenboim's new book vividly describes his lifelong pursuit of knowledge and understandin ...Show more
Opera: Composers, Works, Performers by Andras Batta
$99.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Ullmann
Opera portrays pieces in their historical context and highlights key events in the history of music, as well as important performances and interpretations. The most important details including everything from the characters, sequences of scenes, and premieres through to examples of the sheet music for i ...Show more
Movie's - Ultimate Insider's Guide by KAHN Robert
$24.95 AUD
Category: Film
Called "the best literary gift to travelers since the Baedeker and Henry James" (Financial Times), City Secrets guides are charming travelers' companions to the world's most fascinating cities. In New York, London, Rome, Florence, and Venice, City Secrets offers reflections and discoveries from the auth ...Show more
"Vanity Fair's" Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films by Graydon Carter
$19.95 AUD
Category: Film
The magazine world's monthly arbiter of culture, personality and world affairs, "Vanity Fair" has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its re-launch twenty-five years ago. Now, for the first time ever, "Vanity Fair" presents a one-of-a-kind collection featuri ...Show more