Evelyn Innes (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Calvin, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440075344 ISBN 13 : 9781440075346

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A young singer must navigate family duty, artistic vision, and the lure of a grand musical past.

This is a coming‑of‑age tale set among choirs, old instruments, and a passion for sacred music.

Set against a backdrop of church music, this story follows Evelyn and her father as they chase a dream of reviving ancient chants. It blends personal longing with the pressure of tradition, showing how talent can collide with practical need and family responsibility.

As Evelyn grows, she encounters mentors, rival suitors, and moments that test her resolve. The book explores how memory, art, and faith shape a life, and how the past can echo in the choices of the present.

• A deep look at a young singer's development and the musical world around her
• Themes of duty, ambition, and the pull between old and new ways of making music
• Vivid scenes of performance, teaching, and the ceremonial life of a church
• Atmospheric details of family history and the intangible lure of the past

Ideal for readers who enjoy literary fiction about art, identity, and the tensions between tradition and personal growth.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

I ts beautiful shape, and the shape of the old instruments, vaguely perceived, lent an enchantment to the darkness. In the corner was a viola da gamba, and against the walls a harpsichord and a clavichord. A bove the virginal on which Mr I nnes was playing there hung a portrait of a woman, and, happening to look up, a sudden memory came upon him, and he began to play an aria out of Don Giovanni. But he stopped before many bars, and holding the candle end high, so that he could see the face, continued the melody with his right hand. To see her lips and to strike the notes was almost like hearing her sing it again. Her voice came to him through many years, from the first evening he had heard her sing at La Scala. Then he was a young man spending a holiday in I taly, and she had made his fortune for the time by singing one of his songs. They were married in I taly, and at the end of some months they had gone to Paris and to Brussels, where Mrs I nnes had engagements to fulfil. It was in Brussels that she had lost her voice. For a long while it was believed that she might recover it, but these hopes proved illusory, and, in trying to regain what she had lost irrevocably, the money she had earned dwindled to a last few hundred pounds. The I nnes had returned to London, and, with a baby-daughter, settled in Dulwich. Mr I nnes accepted the post of organist at StJ oseph s, the parish church in Southwark, and Mrs I nnes had begun her singing classes. Her reputation as a singer favoured her, and an aptitude for teaching enabled her to maintain, for many years, a distinguished position in the musical world. Mr I nnes sabilities contributed to their success,-and he might have become a famous London organist if he had devoted himself to the instrument. But one day seeing in a book the words cviola damore, he fancied he would like to possess an instrument with such a name
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440075344
• ISBN 13: 9781440075346
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 494
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