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Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit. [1] The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum .
It should not be used for full-length plays that have no act divisions. Pages in category "One-act plays" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total.
The four plays included were Ernest Thompson's A Good Time, Tennessee Williams' This Property is Condemned, Arthur Kopit's Chamber Music, and Ludlow Fair. [9] Ludlow Fair was double billed with Terence Rattigan's All On Her Own, featuring Alicia Springer, Jo Damiano, and Marina Cross, at the No Smoking Playhouse in 1982. [10]
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the most prolific of chamber music composers of the 20th century, writing 15 string quartets, two piano trios, the piano quintet, and numerous other chamber works. Shostakovich's music was for a long time banned in the Soviet Union and Shostakovich himself was in personal danger of deportation to Siberia.
A chamber play is a play of usually three acts which can be performed with a small cast and practically no sets or costumes in a small space. The form became popular in the early 20th century, with leading exponents being Max Reinhardt and August Strindberg . [ 1 ]
Tonight at 8.30 [n 1] is a cycle of ten one-act plays by Noël Coward, presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936–1937, with the author and Gertrude Lawrence in the leading roles. The plays are mostly comedies, but three, The Astonished Heart, Shadow Play and Still Life, are serious. Four of the comedies include songs, with words and ...
The premiere performance featured the one-act opera Blue Monday with libretto and lyrics by B. G. DeSylva, set in Harlem in a jazz idiom. However, after only one performance, the opera was withdrawn from the show. Gershwin also wrote seven other songs for the show. 1922 – Our Nell (co-composed with William Daly, lyrics co-written by Gershwin ...
Chamber music: 31: 1956: Summer Music for Wind Quintet: for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon Chamber music: 1960s: Chorale for Washington Cathedral: for brass and timpani Chamber music: 38a: 1961: Canzone: for flute or violin, and piano: composer's arrangement of the Piano Concerto, Op. 38, movement II Chamber music: 1967: Mutations from ...