This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block also includes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision. The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hard to find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess). Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. "A solid and fascinating work that should become a model of how to investigate and report on the evolution of a musical. Block's research is persuasive and his writing vivid. . . Indispensable for anyone who cares to know more about Broadway musicals than Playbill can provide." --Steven Bach, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

When Irma falls for a mysterious guitarist in a new band, she becomes determined to find out the truth behind her mesmerizing crush.

(Instrumental Folio). Solo arrangements for a baker's dozen of tunes from Frozen and other recent Disney movies, Tangled and Enchanted , are featured in this collection perfect for budding violinists. Audio demonstration tracks are included to help you hear how the song should sound. Songs include: Do You Want to Build a Snoman? * For the First Time in Forever * Happy Working Song * I See the Light * In Summer * Let It Go * Mother Knows Best * That's How You Know * True Love's First Kiss * When Will My Life Begin * and more.

(Instrumental Folio). Solo arrangements for a baker's dozen of tunes from Frozen and other recent Disney movies, Tangled and Enchanted , are featured in this collection perfect for budding cellists. Audio demonstration tracks are included to help you hear how the song should sound. Songs include: Do You Want to Build a Snoman? * For the First Time in Forever * Happy Working Song * I See the Light * In Summer * Let It Go * Mother Knows Best * That's How You Know * True Love's First Kiss * When Will My Life Begin * and more.

Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.

(Instrumental Folio). Solo arrangements for a baker's dozen of tunes from Frozen and other recent Disney movies, Tangled and Enchanted , are featured in this collection perfect for budding horn players. Audio demonstration tracks are included to help you hear how the song should sound. Songs include: Do You Want to Build a Snoman? * For the First Time in Forever * Happy Working Song * I See the Light * In Summer * Let It Go * Mother Knows Best * That's How You Know * True Love's First Kiss * When Will My Life Begin * and more.

In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives in the very near future” (The Wall Street Journal). We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development, a world in which technology becomes more human. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and even learn to think ahead on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices—which are just beginning to creep into the marketplace—Enchanted Objects. In Rose’s vision of the future, technology atomizes, combining itself with the objects that make up the very fabric of daily living. Such innovations will be woven into the background of our environment, enhancing human relationships, channeling desires for omniscience, long life, and creative expression. The enchanted objects of fairy tales and science fiction will enter real life. Groundbreaking, timely, and provocative, Enchanted Objects is a “delightful” (The New York Times) blueprint for a better future, where efficient solutions come hand in hand with technology that delights our senses. It is essential reading for designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone who wishes to take a glimpse into the future.

(Instrumental Folio). Solo arrangements for a baker's dozen of tunes from Frozen and other recent Disney movies, Tangled and Enchanted , are featured in this collection perfect for budding trumpet players. Audio demonstration tracks are included to help you hear how the song should sound. Songs include: Do You Want to Build a Snoman? * For the First Time in Forever * Happy Working Song * I See the Light * In Summer * Let It Go * Mother Knows Best * That's How You Know * True Love's First Kiss * When Will My Life Begin * and more.

(Easy Piano Play-Along). Each volume in the Easy Piano Play-Along series comes with audio tracks of orchestrated arrangements, and includes matching custom arrangements in easy piano format. This edition features 10 songs from recent Disney films: Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * For the First Time in Forever * Happy Working Song * I See the Light * I've Got a Dream * Let It Go * Love Is an Open Door * That's How You Know * True Love's Kiss * When Will My Life Begin.

Historically informed performance (HIP) has provoked heated debate amongst musicologists, performers and cultural sociologists. In The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age, author Nick Wilson answers many salient questions surrounding HIP through an in-depth analysis of the early music movement in Britain from the 1960s to the present day.