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• Resurrecting the Undead

Vampires have been a mainstay of folklore for centuries and are also a longtime literary theme. First beloved by an 18th-century niche market interested in ghostly stories and tales of weird fantasy, especially in poetry, the creatures now populate everything from teen romance novels to mean-street noir detective stories. John Polidori's 1819 The Vampyre was an early tale of the monster based on a fragment of a story by Lord Byron. Also in the 19th century, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, and Sheridan LeFanu penned memorable nosferatu tales in England, while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Poe were noted exponents of the vampire story in America -- though some of their vampires drank other things than blood, such as souls. Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula is regarded as a seminal, or r...

... put it on," OCU professor and conductor Ken Adams said in a phone interview. "I'd always been intere... he searched further, Adams found that the Boosey & Hawkes music publishing house had vocal scores a...

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• November 09, 2009

• A Manual for the Performance Library

...Few music schools teach that material by John Adams, for example, must be rented, and that some ...Schirmer, while others are with Boosey & Hawkes. Masters degree programs in library scien...

• Music Library Association. Notes
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 2, December 2007

• Symphony: ; Midori to Play a Favorite Written Just 11 Years Ago

If you go The West Virginia Symphony, with guest artist Midori, performs at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Clay Center. Tickets $23, $38, $49; students $12. Call 561-3570. The violinist Midori, whose 20-year professional career is the more astounding because she is just 31, joins conductor Grant Cooper and the West Virginia Symphony for performances of John Adams' Violin Concerto at the Clay Center on Friday and Saturday nights.

...To date, the Web site of Boosey and Hawkes, Adams' publisher, indicates it has bee...

• Charleston Gazette
• April 02, 2004