From biblical book to musical megahit: William B. Bradbury's "Esther, the beautiful queen"
"Many church-goers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury's name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on the biblical Book of Esther. Written...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Many church-goers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury's name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on the biblical Book of Esther. Written for amateur singers, the uncomplicated score became enormously popular almost immediately after its initial publication in 1856. In From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury's "Esther, the Beautiful Queen," Juanita Karpf traces the work's rich performance and reception history. Bradbury emphatically stated that he intended Esther to be sung as an unadorned religious and educational piece. Yet many music directors exploited the potential for his score, producing elaborately staged events with costumes, scenery, and acting. Although directors retained Bradbury's original music, they nonetheless facilitated Esther's rapid entre̹e into the realm of music theater. This stylistic transformation ignited a firestorm of controversy. Some clergy and religiously pious citizens condemned theatrical representations of biblical texts as the epitome of debauchery, sacrilege, and sin. In contrast, more tolerant and open-minded theater enthusiasts welcomed the dramatic staging of Esther as wholesome entertainment and as evidence of a refreshingly enlightened approach to biblical interpretation. However heated this debate seemed at times, it did little to quell the continued rise in popularity of Esther. In fact, by the late 1860s, Bradbury's score had worked its way across the continent, north to Canada and, eventually, to Great Britain, Australia, Asia, and Africa. With performances recorded over a century after Bradbury published his score, Esther became, by any measure, an international megahit." |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 280 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele |
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CONTENTS xi Acknowledgments 3 Introduction 7 CHAPTER ONE: Prelude: Bradbury, Musician and Entrepreneur 33 CHAPTER TWO: Esther: The Early Years 55 CHAPTER THREE: Esther, Revised 73 CHAPTER FOUR: Genre Intrigue 99 CHAPTER FIVE: Religious Controversy 127 CHAPTER SIX: Interlude: Esther Images 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Esther and Minorities 199 CHAPTER EIGHT: An International Megahit 227 Epilogue 231 Appendix 233 Notes 263 Bibliography 277 |
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