{"id":2624,"date":"2012-11-28T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:55:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:55:52","slug":"spectacular-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/2012\/11\/28\/spectacular-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/11\/parakilas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2623\" title=\"parakilas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/11\/parakilas-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/11\/parakilas-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/11\/parakilas.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>The Story of Opera<\/em> by Bates Professor James Parakilas is a feast for all the senses.<\/p>\n<p>Now available in the Bates library at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cbbcat.net\/record=b2713577~S19\">ML1700.P36 2013<\/a>. Also available in print and e-book editions from the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>A great place to start for the student or the audience member who just saw their first Metropolitan Opera Live in HD performance, the <em>Story<\/em>\u00a0is a multimedia history that treats all aspects of this complex art. \u00a0Starting with a section &#8220;Experiencing Opera,&#8221; previously slighted topics such as dressing for the opera, hall architecture, and finding the best seat finally receive their due. \u00a0Educational resources at the W.W.Norton site will include an instructor&#8217;s guide, Norton opera &#8220;sampler&#8221; videos, as well as study materials for course use.<\/p>\n<p>Even the opera\u00a0aficionado\u00a0will be struck by the beauty of the text. While there are fewer passages of printed music, Professor Parakilas provides a wealth of images ranging from engravings of the first operas to high definition images of some of the latest, most innovative opera sets.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is equally fresh. \u00a0<em>The Story of Opera<\/em> starts by explaining the components of the opera &#8212; audience, environment, orchestra, cast, and story &#8212; and follows with a historical survey that features time-honored works such as Verdi&#8217;s <em>La Traviata,\u00a0<\/em>lesser known works such as Rimsky-Korsakov&#8217;s <em>The Legend of Kitezh<\/em> and\u00a0more recent works such as Jake Hegge&#8217;s <em>D<\/em><em>ead Man Walking<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ladd Library has a large and growing collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/cbbcat.net\/search\/X?SEARCH=d:(opera)%20or%20d:(musical)&amp;SORT=D&amp;m=g&amp;b=al\">operas and musicals on DVD<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/cbbcat.net\/search\/X?SEARCH=(opera)%20or%20(musical)&amp;SORT=D&amp;m=j&amp;b=al\">on CD<\/a> that will nicely complement the reader&#8217;s experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of Opera by Bates Professor James Parakilas is a feast for all the senses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":2623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-books","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}