Goldovsky & Ellis, Accents on Opera SIGNED 1st Printing 1953

Description: Goldovsky & Ellis, Accents on Opera SIGNED 1st Printing 1953 Accents on Opera: a Series of Brief Essays Stressing Known and Little Known Facts and Facets of a Familiar Art. By Boris Goldovsky, with vital statistics on operatic premieres by Mary Ellis Peltz. Sponsored by The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc, New York. Published by Farrar, Straus & Young, New York, in 1953. Hardcover, no dust jacket. First Printing. 306 pages. Illustrated with photographs and musical quotations This copy is SIGNED by both authors on a bookplate affixed to the free front endpaper. Condition is used as shown. The pages are clean. There is tanning inside the back cover, but this does not affect the text. A producer and teacher in the field of opera, Goldovsky was engaged to provide 12-minute background pieces that aired during the intermissions of the Metropolitan Opera's radio broadcasts. Those insider commentaries on opera covered "anything from the lighting problems of Mozart's day to Schopenhauer's philosophy of ethics; from the unpublished pages of 'Carmen' to Rossini's fondness for fresh bologna sausages." Boris Goldovsky (1908 - 2001) was a Russian Empire-born conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States. He was an important popularizer of opera in America. As an opera producer, conductor, impresario, and broadcaster he was prominent within the American operatic community between 1946 and 1985. Mary Ellis Peltz (1896 – 1981) was an American drama and music critic, magazine editor, poet and writer on music. In 1936 she became the first chief editor of Opera News, a position she held until 1957 when she founded the Metropolitan Opera's archives. She served as director of the Met's archives from 1957 to 1981. This book would be a terrific gift for the opera fan in your life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our father was a bibliophile who collected rare books, letters, and ephemera for more than 60 years. For now and into the foreseeable future, we will be listing rare paper items from his estate. Take a look at all our items for sale. We combine shipping upon request. Please LET US KNOW if you’ve purchased multiple items so we can combine.

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