Course No. 751 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction and Early Life 2. The Lean Years and the Pre-Classical Style 3. Haydn’s Marriage and Esterhaza 4. Esterhaza Continued 5. The Classical String Quartet and the Classical Symphony 6. London 7. Beethoven, London Again, and Breakthrough 8. The Creation, The Seasons, and the End
This book is a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of the capital’s history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world’s most dynamic metropolis it unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city’s compelling, and at times, turbulent past.
This book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life, and the conditions in which most people lived, so often left out of history books.
This period of mid-Victorian London encompasses a huge range of subjects: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses, and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops; entertaining and servants, food and drink.
All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled.
Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in London Transports will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away-and yet so familiar..
