ISBN: 9781169879713

Hardback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. (LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1909. No… Plus…

Hardback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. (LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1909. Novelized from the play as produced by David Belasco. The book begins: Anton Von Barwig rapped on the conductor's desk for silence and laid down his baton. The hundred men constituting the Leipsic Philharmonic Orchestra stopped playing as if by magic, and those who looked up from their music saw in their leader's face, for the first time in their three years' experience under his direction, a pained expression of helplessness. Either I can't hear you this morning, or the first violins are late in attacking and the wood wind drags-drags-drags. What's the matter? We've played this a hundred times, growled Karlschmidt, the bass clarionet player, to Poons, the Dutch horn soloist, who sat at the desk next to him. Karlschmidt was a socialist, a student of Karl Marx, and took more interest in communism than in his allotted share of the score of Isolde's Liebestodt. Indeed, nearly all the men were interested in something other than the occupation which afforded them a living. For them the pleasure of music had died in the business of attaining accuracy., Anthologies (non-poetry)<

ISBN: 9781169879713

Charles Klein (1867 - 1915) was an English-born playwright and actor who emigrated to America. Klein moved to New York City in 1883 and began his theatrical career by appearing in Little … Plus…

Charles Klein (1867 - 1915) was an English-born playwright and actor who emigrated to America. Klein moved to New York City in 1883 and began his theatrical career by appearing in Little Lord Fauntleroy and other juvenile roles. Among his works was the libretto of John Philip Sousa's operetta, El Capitan. He came into prominence as a dramatist in 1897 with the Charles Frohman production of Heartsease. Klein's melodramas focused on contemporary life in America and were among the most successful of the first decade of the twentieth century. The Music Master (1904) was a huge success. The Music Master tells the story of a successful father who, when his wife "elopes" kidnapping their daughter, drops everything to devote his life to finding his little girl. Detectives take advantage of him and he ends up broke. He eventually accidentally finds his now adult daughter. Books Literary Collections~~General The-Music-Master~~Charles-Klein Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781169879713

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ISBN: 9781169879713

Hardback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing]