Bøger af M. Owen Lee

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THE OPERAGOERS GUIDE ONE HUNDRED STORIES AND COMMENTARIES

Father Lee wears his learning lightly, and his writing changes from chapter to chapter as it reflects, in turn, the clarity and na�ve sense of wonder in Homer, the darkness and ambivalence in Virgil, the intuitive mysticism of Wagner, and the riotously imaginative exuberance of Goethe

From Mozart to Debussy to Olivier Messiaen the works of 50 composers are closely examined in ÊThe Great Instrumental WorksÊ. It is a book for anyone who enjoys the lively arts of opera drama film literature and popular song and who wants to find out what is really going on in the symphonies of Mozart the string quartets of Beethoven the orchestral works of Debussy and Ravel and the contemporary pieces of Olivier Messiaen and Arvo P¢rt. The author Father Owen Lee is an internationally known commentator on music and the arts and writes with a style that has been called rich dense and profound (Citizen''s Weekly) highly readable (Choice) and often irreverently amusing (Opera News). With Father Lee as a guide the intricacies of classical forms and key relationships are rendered not only intelligible but meaningful the music itself becomes life-enhancing and its great composers come vividly to life.

Recreating a year Father Lee spent teaching at an American college campus in Rome, this work is set in the context of a personal crisis - impending hearing loss, theological doubts, and the celibate's regret that he cannot share his remaining years with children of his own. It shows how religious faith and humanistic culture need never be enemies.

Father Lee is internationally known for his commentaries on opera. This book gathers his best commentaries and articles on 23 works for the musical stage, from the pioneering Orpheus of Monteverdi to the forward-looking Ariadne of Richard Strauss.

Join quizmaster Father Lee for forty-five opera related puzzles. Brain teasers include straight forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical patterns, crostics, and crossword puzzles in categories such as opera and baseball or opera at the movies.

Father Lee traces some of Wagner's extraordinary influence for good and ill on a century of art and politicsand argues that Wagner's ambivalent art is indispensable to us, life-enhancing and ultimately healing.

Father Lee's books on the classics of Greece and Rome and made his six other volumes of opera bestsellers, Athena Sings traces the profound influence - an influence few music lovers are aware of - that Greek theatre and culture had on the most German of composers and his revolutionary musical dramas.

WAGNER'S RING: TURNING THE SKY ROUND

In Wagner and the Wonder of Art, renowned opera expert M. Owen Lee provides an introduction to the opera and an analysis that will surprise even those veteran operagoers who may not have explored the work's intricate structure and the emotional drama at its centre.