Essentially a collection of full plot summaries organized under country of origin and preceeded by brief historical introduction. Covers Britain, France, US, Austria-Germany-Hungary, and Spain. Indexed by author/composer/lyricist, and by song title. Includes a discography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, vividly colored by the often little-known life stories of these early performers. Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays delves into the professional and personal lives of the British and American actors and singers who created the celebrated "famous fourteen" Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

From the pre-Gilbert and Sullivan 1860s to the 1980s, this important reference surveys more than a century of British light musical theatre, including its writers and composers. Ganzl provides a wealth of information on the book, lyrics, and music of over 800 London musicals, including contemporary reviews, cast lists, performances, plus pertinent notes gleaned from a study of surviving scores and libretti. Volume 1 traces the development of the genre between 1865 and 1914, describing its roots in burlesque and opera-buffe, and discussing the comic opera tradition and the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, the flowering of the so-called musical comedy under George Edwardes, and the important influence of the British musical theatre around the world, particularly in America. Volume 2 covers, among other topics, the reciprocal influences on the British musical theatre of the American style, the advent of the dance-and-laughter musicals of the 1930s, the rock operas of the 1970s, and the subsequent development of the modern British musical in its second period of international prominence, highlighted by such hits as Evita and Cats."

In this work, Bruce Brandt and his father, Edward, furnish us with the surname of every German-speaking individual who appears in thirteen authoritative histories--eleven of them written in German--that document the massive emigration of Germanic individuals to Eastern Europe. In all, this work lists 19,720 surnames of German-speaking ancestors who emigrated to Russia, Poland, Romania, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. In the introductory chapters to the book the authors provide an extremely informative history of German settlement in Eastern Europe and detailed summaries of each of their sources.

CONTENTS - PART ONE GENERAL CONCEPTS A CASE FOR INTEGRATION - I. CHARACTERISTICS OF INTEGRATION IN THE BASIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS INDUSTRY - II. REVIEW OF THE STRUCTURE OF NITROGEN AND ITS COMPOUNDS - PART TWO - III. GENERAL - IV. PRODUCTION OF RAW SYNTHESIS GAS - V. PURIFICATION OF RAW SYNTHESIS GAS - VI. SYNTHESIS OF AMMONIA - VII. PRODUCTION LINES, ECONOMIC ASPECTS AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN AMMONIA MANUFACTURE - PART THREE - VIII. AMMONIA AND AMMONIUM SALTS - IX. INORGANIC DERIVATIVES OF AMMONIA OTHER THAN AMMONIUM SALTS - X. AMINES AND IMINES - XI. NITRILES - XII. AMIDES, IMIDES AND LACTAMS - XIII. USES OF INTERMEDIATES AND By-PRODUCTS RESULTING FROM AMMONIA- XIV. GENERAL - XV. AMMONIA OXIDATION AND LOWER NITROGEN OXIDES PRODUCTION - XVI. PRODUCTION OF DILUTE NITRIC ACID AND HIGHER NITROGEN OXIDES FROM NITROUS GASES - XVII. PRODUCTION LINES, ECONOMIC ASPECTS AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN THE DILUTE NITRIC ACID MANUFACTURE - XVIII. DILUTED NITRIC ACID AND ITS INORGANIC DERIVATIVES: CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID (THROUGH DISTILLATION) AND NITRATES - XIX. NITROGEN OXIDES AND THEIR INORGANIC DERIVATIVES: CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID (THROUGH SYNTHESIS), NITRITES AND OTHER SALTS, COVALENT COMPOUNDS - XX. C-, 0- AND N- NITRO COMPOUNDS - XXI. C-, 0- AND N- NITROSO COMPOUNDS - XXII. UTILIZATION OF INTERMEDIATES AND BY-PRODUCTS RESULTING FROM THE NITRIC ACID AND NITROGEN OXIDES MANUFACTURE