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No. 10: Supreme Virtue. Autograph manuscript full score of the compete work. For double mixed choir (SATB)

No. 10: Supreme Virtue. Autograph manuscript full score of the compete work. For double mixed choir (SATB) by ADAMO, Mark b. 1962

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Title
No. 10: Supreme Virtue. Autograph manuscript full score of the compete work. For double mixed choir (SATB)
Author
ADAMO, Mark b. 1962
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Oblong quarto (278 x 208 mm). Unbound, folded. 29 pp. + 2 pp. of additional manuscript apparently not included in the final version. Notated in pencil on 16-stave paper. Signed and dated New York, Jan-April 1997. Supreme Virtue was commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers with the support of the Jerome Foundation and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University. The Dale Warland Singers premiered the work in Minneapolis in June 2000. The text consists of an English translation by Stephen Mitchell of verses from the "Tao te Ching." It was first recorded by the Seattle-based chamber choir Esoterics on the Terpsichore label in the winter of 2008. "For a few years I was the tenor section leader of a choir in Washington, and in singing with and composing for them I'd become more and more interested in the quasi-instrumental vocal gesture. Stephen Mitchell's pellucid translation of this verse of the Tao te ching - a series of moral challenges all beginning with the words "Can you?" - spurred me to explore this idea at length. The singers, divided into two SATB choirs, intone the first question in a dusky C-minor against a sighing backdrop of wind sounds: then, as the first choir utters the text's first challenge, the second choir refracts their words into marimba-like repeated notes, as if the long lines of the first choir were subjected to a kind of aural strobe. As the questions become tougher, so do the sounds: tenors and altos stab into the texture with horn-like interruptions, and the phrase "Can you?" disrupts the unwavering four-four pulse with insistent threes and twos. At a peak of intensity, a looping soprano-alto line spirits us away from pulse and chord, leading first to a melodic meditation based on the vowels of "Can you?" and then to a cadenza, in which chords appear and vanish into a shimmering, ever-present curtain of sound. A vision of equanimity is intoned in the open fifths of (both Western and Eastern) chant: then, as if elated by its discovery ("this is the supreme virtue") the chorus reworks its "Can you?" motive: a nudging half-step expands to a whole step, the harmony brightens to B-flat, and, in rhythms now more jubilant than insistent, the score spins to closure." Adamo website "Hailed by The New Yorker as 'one of America's most formidable lyric composers,' composer-librettist Mark Adamo made his mark on the opera world in 1998 with the debut of his first work Little Women, which The New York Times described as 'a bona fide American classic.' Known for his "way of finding a drama's emotional nerve and projecting it to an audience" (The Financial Times, London), his four subsequent operas - Lysistrata, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Becoming Santa Claus, and The Lord of Cries -h ave 'opened yet other pathways on his remarkable exploration of what an opera can be.' " American Record Guide, University of Colorado Boulder website.
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The Red Book of Jocoseria.

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The Red Book of Jocoseria.
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Savoy Books (United States)
Description
Book. [Swarthmore, Pa.: 1899.] Oblong 12mo, red paper wrappers, stitched with ribbon. 63 pp of hectograph typescript. Wrappers a little chipped. Humorously written annals and minutes of a club of giddy Browning enthusiasts at Swarthmore, one of a handful of copies made up for the membership, which included mostly faculty, as well as a former Swarthmore president..
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[MENU] Old Original BOOKBINDER'S
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lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
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Cream illustrated cards. Very good
Description
Philadelphia, c. 1952. Cards. Cream illustrated cards. Very good. 22 x 16 cm. Army/Navy Menu featuring a die-cut lobster stapled in: Lobster Special - Clam Chowder, Whole Broiled Lobster with Drawn Butter, French Fried Potatoes, Cole Slaw, Rolls and Butter, Coffee $3.50. Full menu present. Front cover lightly soiled, otherwise clean and crisp.
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Mikroby, Toksiny i Ul'travirusy [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve] by Zil'ber, L. A.

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Mikroby, Toksiny i Ul'travirusy [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve]
Author
Zil'ber, L. A.
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Moscow: Pravda, 1948. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 22; minor wear to tips of spine and corners; illustrated with numerous b & w photographs; about near fine. “Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii†(The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the ‘League of Militant Atheists’, or ‘The Union of the Godless’, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and intelligentsia. In 1947 the Society commenced publishing journals and propaganda materials and it sponsored lectures, demonstrations and parades. Dedicated to eradicating religious beliefs and promoting science and knowledge, the public lectures were diligently recorded and printed (an example of which is the current one) in a pamphlet form with numerous illustrations. The topics covered scientific discoveries, Communist leaders’ works and speeches, history, notable names, anti-Imperialist propaganda, etc. In 1963 the organization was yet again renamed to ‘Znanie’ (Knowledge) and it is still in existence today. Subject: Microbes and viruses.
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Batman: Bride of the Demon. by BARR, Mike W., et al.

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Batman: Bride of the Demon.
Author
BARR, Mike W., et al.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780930289799
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY:: DC Comics,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 093028979X . Color illustrations throughout. First printing. About fine in like dust jacket. .

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