Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts

Author : Kauffman Center Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449470838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts written by Kauffman Center Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, authorized story of the development, design, and construction of Kansas City's Kauffman Performing Arts Center (KCPA), acclaimed as one of the fifteen greatest performance halls in the world (and one of only two in the United States). With a Foreword by His Royal Highness Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales. Since its grand opening in 2011, the KCPA has been the subject of praise from critics and audiences all over the world. This book tells the remarkable story of the design and construction of the magnificent building by a celebrated team including architect Mosche Safdie, engineers from the Arup Group Ltd., international theater designer Richard Pilbrow, acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, and many others. From its unique building materials to its lofty place in the Kansas City environment, every detail was subject to intense scrutiny and testing to reach the highest standards in performance and appearance. Performances from jazz musicians to symphonic orchestras, modern dance to ballet, opera to broadway musicals have entranced audiences and impressed professionals with the high quality of the facility. The Casavant organ, commissioned personally by Ms. Julie Irene Kauffman, Chairman of the Board of the Center, is one of the most magnificent instruments of its kind in the world. Illusrated with over 250 photos and contributions from the experts involved in the project make the book unique, and it stands alone as the only book of its kind on the Center. With the addition of a Foreword by His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, whose interest in and support of architectural endeavors is well known, it will be a treasure for Kansas Citians, and the perfect souvenir for visitors from all over the country, and the world.

Author : Yasuhisa Toyota
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030424502
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concert Halls by Nagata Acoustics written by Yasuhisa Toyota and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning and data rich text catalogs the design of 32 concert halls by world-renowned acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota and his team at Nagata Acoustics, the firm behind the celebrated Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and numerous others. Alongside architectural drawings and photographs, commentary on the design process and challenges of each hall provides insight for the dedicated listener to appreciate a wide range of internationally beloved concert venues. Summarized acoustical and architectural data for each of the halls will provide valuable reference information to architects and acousticians alike. Following the project anthology is an overview of the history, development, and acoustical features of vineyard- and surround-style concert halls. A broader discussion of design philosophy reveals the methods by which Toyota has guided architects to create world renowned halls. These technical and general discussions give architects the foundation to design for the performing arts, and provide audiences a new insight and perspective to consider the next time they attend a concert.

Author : Caroline Randall Williams
Publisher : Third Man Books
ISBN 13 : 9780997457827
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy Negro, Redux written by Caroline Randall Williams and published by Third Man Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid document, Lucy Negro, Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare, and their real and imagined milieu.

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857128566
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Million Dollar Quartet written by Stephen Miller and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million Dollar Quartet’ is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.The events of the session. Very few participants survive. Includes interviews with the drummer and the sound engineer. A detailed analysis of the music played – and its relevance to subsequent popular music. The early lives and careers of the quartet – where they were in 1956. Relevant social and economic factors which meant that a massive audience of young people were keenly looking for a new kind of music they could call their own. The “reunions” of surviving members of the quartet. The emergence of the tapes, first on bootleg and then on legitimate CDs. The genesis of the stage show and its reception – the enduring appeal of the music.

Author : Steve Winter
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426212402
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tigers Forever written by Steve Winter and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Geographic photographer embarks on a one-man mission to address the plight of the tiger before it's too late.

Author : Jim Dutcher
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426210124
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of Wolves written by Jim Dutcher and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic tribute to the authors' work as wolf caregivers and advocates documents their efforts with the Sawtooth Pack in Idaho and features a passionate argument for reintroducing and protecting wild wolves.

Author : Sarah L. Kaufman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243966
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life written by Sarah L. Kaufman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sarah Kaufman offers an old-fashioned cure for a modern-day ailment. The remedy for our culture of coarseness is grace…This is an elegant, compelling, and, yes, graceful book." —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive In this joyful exploration of grace’s many forms, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Sarah L. Kaufman celebrates a too-often-forgotten philosophy of living that promotes human connection and fulfillment. Drawing on the arts, sports, the humanities, and everyday life—as well as the latest findings in neuroscience and health research—Kaufman illuminates how our bodies and our brains are designed for grace. She promotes a holistic appreciation and practice of grace, as the joining of body, mind, and spirit, and as a way to nurture ourselves and others.

Author : Patti LaBelle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101523
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recipes for the Good Life written by Patti LaBelle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of more than one hundred recipes, organized into such categories as hot 'n' spicy, light and healthy, and celebrate.

Author : Charlie Kaufman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0399589694
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antkind written by Charlie Kaufman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit."—The Washington Post “An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . . an exceptionally good [book].”—The New York Times Book Review • “Kaufman is a master of language . . . a sight to behold.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND MEN’S HEALTH B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider—a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made—a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete—B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. All that’s left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of “likes” and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d’être. A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself—the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

Author : Lemony Snicket
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061965022
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Composer Is Dead written by Lemony Snicket and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There′s dreadful news from the symphony hall-the composer is dead! If you have ever heard an orchestra play, then you know that musicians are most certainly guilty of something. Where exactly were the violins on the night in question? Did anyone see the harp? Is the trumpet protesting a bit too boisterously? In this perplexing murder mystery, everyone seems to have a motive, everyone has an alibi, and nearly everyone is a musical instrument. But the composer is still dead. Perhaps you can solve the crime yourself. Join the Inspector as he interrogates all the unusual suspects. Then listen to the accompanying audio recording featuring Lemony Snicket and the music of Nathaniel Stookey performed by the San Francisco Symphony. Hear for yourself exactly what took place on that fateful, well-orchestrated evening.