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Internationally renowned as the finest Mozart and Strauss soprano since World War II, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was a preeminent performer in both opera and Lieder for three decades. She is as popular today as when she gave her farewell recital in 1979; Schwarzkopf's master classes have been televised, and she remains one of EMI's best-selling recording artists.In this first full-length biography, Alan Jefferson illuminates Schwarzkopf's remarkable life and career, analyzing in fascinating detail her skillful and distinguished performances on the opera stage and in the recording studio. Jefferson examines her unique vocal and interpretative gifts, although acknowledging that charges of artifice and mannerism leveled at her by some critics are not without merit. He draws on extensive research and archival documentation, including the Nazi Party's two-thousand-page file on Schwarzkopf, to explore her tenure as a soloist at the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin during Hitler's regime as well as her active and willing involvement in the Nazi Party. Jefferson also provides a revealing discussion of Schwarzkopf's complex partnership with and marriage to the maverick impresario and record producer Walter Legge. He considers her working relationships with Europe's leading conductors, including Wilhelm Furtwangler, Victor de Sabata, Karl Bohm, and, in particular, Herbert von Karajan, whose influence on Schwarzkopf's operatic career was not always beneficial.

The struggles, hardship, and joy of one woman's life on a Maine island are brought to life in this haunting and enduringly popular trilogy, the first three books of the Bennett's Island series. Elisabeth Ogilvie tells the story of Joanna Bennett and her colorful life on Bennett's Island with a sensitivity and truthfulness born of her own early years on isolated Criehaven, the real Bennett's Island.

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisabeth de Valois. Boasting an international cast in one of Verdi's most popular operas, Luc Bondy's moving production is the original French version restored to five acts.

When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen. The Unitarian Service Committee was among the few American organizations committed to helping refugees during World War II. The staff who ran the committee assisted those endangered by the Nazi regime, from famous writers and artists to the average citizen. Part of a larger network of American relief workers, the Unitarian Committee helped refugees negotiate the official and legal channels of escape and, when those methods failed, the more complex underground channels. From their offices in Portugal and southern France they created escape routes through Europe to the United States, South America, and England, and rescued thousands, often at great personal risk.

In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on prejudice. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Startling, challenging, and courageous, this work offers an unprecedented analysis of prejudice.

"The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."―Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York Newsday Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding this terrible enslavement of women.

In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on prejudice. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Startling, challenging, and courageous, this work offers an unprecedented analysis of prejudice.

Composer: Elisabeth Lutyens Music for Orchestra II Op. 48 Publisher: Schott Category: Classical Series: Schott Format: Paperback Music for...