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  • Paris on a Plate

    par Stephen Downes ...
    More than thirty years ago a green and unsophisticated Methodist boy from Oz had to be taught how to dress his salad correctly in a tiny Paris bistro, and felt the first stirring that he could 'perhaps nurture an interest in food'. Stephen Downes, now a renowned restaurant critic, returns to the city of lights and Michelin stars to test France's legendary reputation for fine dining. Is Paris still ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Hands of Pianists

    par Stephen Downes ...
    The Hands of Pianists’ narrator is a neurotic freelance writer who aims to prove that pianos kill elite pianists. For decades, he has grappled with the guilt that followed an accident in which he sawed off his talented sister’s fingers, ending her promising career at the keyboard. His investigations centre on the violent deaths at 31 of three great pianists, his detective work taking him from ... En savoir plus

    $8.23 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Mural

    par Stephen Downes ...
    Mural is a haunting ‘confession’ by a psychopath known only as D. Held in a secure facility, he has been asked by his psychiatrist to write down his thoughts, admissions, anxieties and uncertainties. They are at first revealed through the stories of other people’s lives and obsessions.Specifically, D is pre-occupied with a British man who spent his early years as a schoolteacher in Australia ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • After Mahler

    Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption

    par Stephen Downes ...
    The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial ... En savoir plus

    $110.39 CAD

  • A Lasting Record

    par Stephen Downes ...
    The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return flight from Australia - where he toured in 1953 - ploughed into a mountain south of San Francisco and ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • To Die For

    par Stephen Downes ...
    In this glorious celebration of food and eating, Stephen Downes, one of Australia's foremost food critics and food writers, leads readers through the 100 food experiences they must have before they expire, based on his own culinary encounters, and his astonishing food knowledge and expertise. Some of these experiences are as simple and affordable as making and eating homemade mayonnaise, while ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    par Stephen Downes ...
    In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Muse as Eros

    Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

    par Stephen Downes ...
    The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative ... En savoir plus

    $96.99 CAD

  • Gustav Mahler

    par Stephen Downes ...
    Collections Livre 123 - Critical Lives
    Gustav Mahler’s status as an icon of fin-de-siècle Viennese music is assured, with his works now staples of the concert repertoire. His life story has been told in numerous biographies, films and novels, yet he remains an ambiguous, provocative figure. Mahler was a composer who challenged musical form and style but identified with German Enlightenment and Romantic culture, disliking many ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Szymanowski Companion

    par Stephen Downes ...
    The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, violin, vocal and choral compositions. The profile and popularity of Szymanowski's music outside Poland ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics of Music

    Musicological Perspectives

    Modifié par Stephen Downes ...
    Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. Topics have been ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology

    par Stephen Downes ...
    Collections series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski's work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, Christ, Narcissus or Orpheus, and the gospel he proclaims tells of the resurrection and freedom of the ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD