More than a century ago over 200 leading lawyers met in a schoolroom on Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Sixth Street to organize the Association of the Bar of the City of New York ...

Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels ...

This collection of original essays ranges widely among the composer's interests and achievements: from his religious views to his skill as a cook, from the politics that ...

(Limelight). Martin provides a guide to opera that is sweeping in its scope, thorough in its detail, and authoritative in its commentary. He recalls a century of achievement in ...

(Limelight). This book relates the life and experiences of composer Giuseppe Verdi, from his birth in 1813 to his death in 1901. Besides documenting Verdi's life and the music ...

Provides synopses of forty-seven operas, a history of the opera, and a glossary of operatic terms.

A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas -- including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto -- made their way ...

Biography of Frances Perkins, First Woman Cabinet Member, politician, USA - leadership, activities in labour policy, social policy, labour relations, social security, ILO ...