Boston & New York: Harbison, Wuorinen, Ueno and Sanford

Tempo ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (234) ◽  
pp. 39-40
Author(s):  
Rodney Lister
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
John Harbison ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The Moment

The last two of the works commissioned by the Boston Symphony to celebrate the first season of James Levine as its Music Director were unveiled by Levine and the orchestra in Symphony Hall in Boston and Carnegie Hall in New York in April. John Harbison, whose The Great Gatsby was written for Levine and the Metropolitan Opera, had been working on an opera based on Lolita by Nabokov. He eventually decided that the problems presented by the staging of the work were insurmountable, and has, at least for the moment, abandoned the project, which he now considers misguided. He made the same decision in regard to the Fitzgerald novel about ten years before actually completing that project, so in the future this opera may also eventually see the light of day. Meanwhile, just as Harbison's aborted first attempt at Gatsby produced his ‘fox-trot for orchestra’, Remembering Gatsby, the work at Lolita has resulted in his most recent work for the BSO, a seven-minute overture based on material intended for the opera, entitled Darkbloom. Harbison's program note for the work does not name either Lolita or Nabokov, but speaks only of ‘a famous and infamous American novel’ in which Vivian Darkbloom (an anagram of Vladimir Nabokov) ‘is a just a secondary character’. Harbison chose Darkbloom as a title for the work ‘because it effectively conjures up the mood of this overture’, and ‘serves as an emblem or anagram for the complex tragic-comic spirit of the story and its author’. Darkbloom itself is attractive and skilfully wrought. A balletic section which portrays two young women playing tennis is the most memorable music in the work.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Catherine Keyser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

In The Great Gatsby (1925), Nick Carraway gazes upon the New York City skyline: Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty of the world....

First Performances

Tempo ◽  
2000 ◽  
pp. 41-51
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
List Type ◽  
Last Supper ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Opera House ◽  
Paul Griffiths

Berlin: Birtwistle's ‘The Last Supper’ Paul GriffithsSt Paul's Cathedral: Tavener (plus book and CDs) Robert SteinRAM: Firsova at 50 Malcolm HayesNew York:‘The Great Gatsby’ at the Met Simon H JonesColiseum & RAM: operas by Turnage and Dubugnon Martin AndersonManchester: Colin Matthews's ‘Pluto’ Raymond HeadRoyal Opera House: Martinů's ‘The Greek Passion’ Martin AndersonGregsonGuerreroWelleszSherlaw-JohnsonDowney

J GATSBY AND THE EXTERNAL AGENTS OF HIS FALL

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Lale Massiha
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Tragic Hero ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
External Agents ◽  
The Hill

The Great Gatsby, as the icon of 20th century American Novel generated a wide range of criticism and reactions, since its publication in 1925. J Gatsby is believed to be an undeniably true American following his American dream.He strongly believes in his success by employing all the means he owns. This is the force behind Gatsby's strong but blind belief in the fantasy of his ideally sketched future. Although he achieves his dream of financial success hetragically falls. Any classic tragic fall, definitely, claims a tragic hero guilty of a tragic flaw. Psychoanalytic studies have been conducted to identify the inner causes of this fall related to the lack of family, secured social position andhis desires. This paper, however, attempts to bring the external destructive agents of this modern tragic hero into the spotlight. The opportunity to earn wealth, to construct a fake social identity and to believe that the impossible ispossible pushes him down the hill. And that is nothing more than the very American Dream itself. This includes the possibility of social mobility, connecting with the members of higher social ranks and the wealth facilitating him touse the machinery and the new inventions of the age.

scholarly journals The Reflection of the Era of the “Roaring Twenties“ in the F.S.Fitzgerald’s Novel «The Great Gatsby»

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
A. Diadechko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society

The article deals with the portraying “Roaring Twenties” which marked a legendary and unprecedented period in the history of American society. Though this era goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, it has never stopped arousing deep common interest because of its uniqueness. Having been abundantly reflected in numerous pieces of art and literature, “Roaring Twenties”, synonymously named “The Jazz Age”, go on provoking public discussion and reevaluation. If viewed in literary terms, this epoch is certainly linked with the name of Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and with his best known novel “The Great Gatsby” filmed five times. The writer is considered to be one of the best chronicler of the American 1920s. Fitzgerald’s masterpiece had embodied many symbols and icons of America which travelled though one hundred years and still feature contemporary society. The articles attempts to outline extra-lingual information and data that shape the temporal and cultural background of the novel. It aims at providing the readers with sufficient additional information that may significantly enlarge on the novel context grasping. It proposes a detailed description and interpretation of symbols and markers of the American 1920s which typically feature “Roaring Twenties” and the ways they are projected onto Fitzgerald’s story. In particular, the focus is made on American Dream doctrine, New York of the 1920s, the conflict between “the old money” and “the new money”, feminism and fashion, alcohol and crime, music, cars. Some parallels between the author’s life story and his characters are also specified.

Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the Significance of Class in American Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Justin Driver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
American West ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
American Society ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter juxtaposes the tales of two ambitious men, both born in the American West, who moved east to New York in an effort to make names for themselves during the 1920s. The ambitions of Jay Gatsby—as recounted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—and William O. Douglas—as recounted in his autobiography, Go East, Young Man—led the two men in very different directions. Where Gatsby turned to lawlessness, Douglas instead turned to law. The distinct journeys and distinct fates that Gatsby and Douglas experience yield insight into the significance of class within the United States, and also offer significant complications of the American Dream.

Tenses in translation: Benveniste’s ‘discourse’ and ‘historical narration’ in the first-person novel

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Mallier
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way ◽  
Passe Compose

This article deals with Emile Benveniste’s theory of enunciation (see ‘Subjectivity in Language’ and ‘The Correlations of Tense in the French Verb’ in Problems in General Linguistics, 1971 [1966] and ‘L’appareil formel de l’énonciation’ in Problèmes de linguistique générale, tome 2, 1970), in particular his distinction between historical narration and discourse, and the way it applies to the translation of first-person fiction. In French narratives, the main tense of discourse is the passé composé, which is related to the time of enunciation, while the tense of historical narration is traditionally the passé simple, which is related to the moment of the events reported. The passé composé thus draws attention to the narrating I’s retrospective gaze, while the passé simple reflects the experiencing I’s perspective within the story. This raises complex issues of translation because the narrative use of the passé composé has no equivalent in English, so that the distinction between the perspectives of the retrospective narrator and of his former self are expressed differently in the two languages. This article explores the impact of this phenomenon on four different French translations of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Llona, 1926; Tournier, 1996; Wolkenstein, 2011 and Jaworski, 2012).

scholarly journals Ethical Hedonism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoanita Yuselvira Br Sitepu
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Descriptive Method

This aims of this study reflect about etchical hedonism in Jay Gatsby as main character in the novel which take place in New York 1920’s after First War.The researcher uses William Lillie’s ethical hedonism theory. Ethical hedonism is the way of thinking to achieve happiness in the middle of troublesome modern world. The purpose of ethical hedonism teory is to make everyone as happy as possible. The data are used in this novel are quotation between the characters. The ethical hedonism theory consists of egoistic hedonism and universalistic hedonism. The source of the data is the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This research is library research, with the data in the form of words, dialogues, and expression showed in the novel. The writer uses qualitative descriptive method, the writer collects data from so many sources included The Great Gatsby novel, journals, and books. The results of this study show that there are some impact that influenced by ethical hedonism, they are: (1) egoistic hedonism (2) universalistic hedonism (3) lifestyle (4) materialism, its reflected by the character quotation.

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