Bøker av Charles Barber

Drawing heavily on their 15-year correspondence, this book is the first English-language biography of Carlos Kleiber ever written. Charles Barber offers unique insights into how Kleiber worked. This biography considers Kleiber's singular aesthetic, his playful and often erudite sense of humor, his reputation for perfectionism, his much-studied baton technique, and the famous concert and opera performances he conducted. It explores the great conductor's musical lineage and the contemporary contexts in which he worked, and it repudiates myths that inevitably crop up around genius and reflects on Kleiber's contribution to modern musical performance.

La historia de cómo el trabajo de un pequeño grupo de personas creció hasta alcanzar el tamaño de su vocación: garantizar que el cuidado de la salud sea un derecho, no un privilegio. Salud y Paz es la historia que hay detrás de este improbable esfuerzo: el joven de 20 años que planta la bandera en su pequeña ciudad natal de Middletown, Connecticut; la hija de jornalero que se abrió camino hacia el norte durante la gran migración y se convierte en la estrella polar del impulso para transformar el cuidado de la salud en la comunidad; el hijo de un emigrante judío y farmaceuta que se separa de sus compañeros para apoyar la causa; el músico que tocaba en las grandes bandas del Sur en los años 30, que pierde sus dientes y ahora está decidido a asegurarse de que otros no pierdan los suyos; y el estudiante universitario y futuro senador estadounidense que ayuda a comprar el edificio para que la clínica gratuita no cierre definitivamente. Una joven enfermera practicante se une a la organización cuando ésta se expande más allá de un pueblo de Connecticut y, hoy en día, el CHC y su Instituto Weitzman llevan a cabo programas en todo EE.UU., transformando la prestación de cuidados de salud para las poblaciones que han sido ignoradas. Disponible en inglés: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959262009

Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was the greatest conductor of his generation. His reputation is legendary, and yet astonishingly, in his five decades on the podium, he conducted only 89 concerts, some 600 opera performances, and produced 12 recordings. How did someone who worked so little compared to his peers achieve so much?Between his relatively small output and well-known aversion to publicity, many came to regard Kleiber as reclusive and remote, bordering on unapproachable. But in 1989 a conducting student at Stanford University wrote him a letter, and an unusual thing occurred: the world-renowned conductor replied. And so began a 15-year correspondence, study, and friendship by mail.Drawing heavily on this decade-and-a-half exchange, Corresponding with Carlos is the first English-language biography of Kleiber ever written. Charles Barber offers unique insights into how Kleiber worked based on their long and detailed correspondence. This biography by one friend of another considers, among other matters, Kleibers singular aesthetic, his playful and often erudite sense of humor, his reputation for perfectionism, his much-studied baton technique, and the famous concert and opera performances he conducted.Comic and compelling, Corresponding with Carlos explores the great conductors musical lineage and the contemporary contexts in which he worked. It repudiates myths that inevitably crop up around genius and reflects on Kleibers contribution to modern musical performance. This biography is ideal for musicians, scholars, and anyone with a special love of the great classical music tradition.

This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the English language is explored in terms of where it came from, where it is going and the global impact it has had, taking into account the many varieties of English that now exist. Stimulating and interesting, it is not only written for specialists on language and linguistics, but also for general readers who take an interest in the subject.

Now available in a completely revised edition, this book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers towards it, its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. It will be useful to serious students of the history of English and takes full account of those readers who are mainly interested in the literature of the period by providing plenty of references to literary works and authors.