Terence Lorence
The Six Wonders of the Ancient World: The Road to the Seven
Terence Lorence
In the beginning there were Six, not Seven, Wonders in the Ancient Greek World. And unlike the later list of Seven Wonders which evolved from it, the original list of Six Wonders was an organised list based on specific principles, the Wonders all coordinated with each other in a harmonious manner. Here for the first time since the end of the ancient world the original list of Six Wonders is revealed with its three new Wonders. Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. 6X9 Inch Size. 105 Pages. 34,000 Words. 20 Illustrations. Bibliography. First Edition. Copyright 2024. Now available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers.
Alice Lorence
Deanna Durbin: An Operella. Volume One. A Study of Her Motion Picture Career.
Alice Lorence. Edited by Terence Lorence.
An informal socialist study of Deanna Durbin's twelve year motion picture career from a sophocratic or paternalist point of view, an enlightened point of view which combines, in equal proportion, cultural elitism and elitist socialism. Rejecting all that is populist, it is a study devoted to the Classical as expressed in the musical films of Deanna. As a book written for readers who have an operetta world-view, it is without notes or index, providing instead interesting diversions and digressions.
The book will be complete in two Volumes. Volume One covers Deanna's motion picture career from 1936 to 1939. Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. Square 8.5 Inch Size. 160,000 Words. 344 Pages 36 Photographs. Annotated Bibliography. First Edition. Copyright 2023. Now available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers.
Deanna and Stoki
A Great Artistic Love Affair
"Mr Stokowski is tall and straight, and has beautiful hair. He speaks in a low voice and never gets excited". Deanna, July 1937.
The long term love affair between Deanna and Leopold Stokowski, which began while they were making their film One Hundred Men and a Girl in 1937, must be numbered amongst the great artistic love affairs, and it is one of the most amusing and charming. Compared with the passionate romance between Stoki and Deanna, Stoki's parallel romance with the actress Greta Garbo, which began about the same time, pales into insignificance. Indeed Stoki's supposed romance with Garbo was little more than a screen to shield the true object of his affections; and it wasn't long before Stoki abandoned the cold and neurotic Garbo in total to focus all his attention on the warm and lovable Deanna who was his inspiration and muse. It was Deanna, not Stoki, who initiated the love affair between them. She had developed a mad crush on Stoki even before they met when she first saw him conduct on stage, and, uninhibited in the pursuit of her love life, she was determined to possess him. As two great musical talents, there can be little doubt that the love affair between Stoki and Deanna was preordained by divine forces.
Michael A. Fullerton
Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski
Alice Lorence
Deanna Durbin: An Operella. Volume Two. A Study of Her Motion Picture Career.
Alice Lorence. Edited by Terence Lorence.
The second of Two Volumes. Available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers in the second half of 2024.
Deanna Durbin and Operella
A New Art Form
In all her films, except for Can't Help Singing and Up in Central Park which were conventional operettas, Deanna Durbin was the sole singer. Her films thus differ from conventional operettas, and for that matter from conventional musical comedies, which feature a number of singers; in the case of operettas there being at least one male singer, most often a tenor, to counterbalance the soprano. Thus there is need of a new term "operella" to describe musical plays on the stage or screen which, while featuring a female singer of operatic calibre like Deanna, differ from conventional operettas in having no other singers. The term operella has made rare appearances in the past, being used, in no rigorous manner, as no more than an alternate name for operetta. It is now time for the term operella to be restricted to a new and specific use to describe a new art form which first arose on the cinema screen in the 1930s, but which could just as well appear on the stage.
The idea of producing films with just a single singer, a single female singer, arose independently in Europe and America. And in Europe the originators of this concept were none other than Joe Pasternak and Henry Kosterlitz who would later produce and direct Deanna's films in America. Their films in Europe however featured a popular female singer, most often the cabaret singer Franciska Gaal. But these films, lacking a female singer of operatic calibre, were definitely not operellas. One must instead look to America for the first operellas starring operatic divas, the feminine stars of these films being true stars of the opera stage, being in fact prima donnas recruited from the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Grace Moore, Lily Pons and Gladys Swarthout. And the first true operella was perhaps One Night of Love which starred Grace Moore in 1934.
Michael A. Fullerton
Deanna Durbin
Alice Lorence
Deanna Durbin: An Operella Observed
Alice Lorence. Edited by Terence Lorence.
A photographic essay, for serious students of operella and operetta, on the motion picture career of the Classical soprano Deanna Durbin covering each of her delightful musical films from 1936 to 1948.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. Square 8.5 Inch Size. 202 Pages. 286 Photographs. First Edition. Copyright 2021. Now available from Lulu.com and, as a Soft-Cover, from other online Booksellers.
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A Deanna Durbin Half-Tone
Deanna Durbin in the garden of her Italian villa in the Hollywood Hills at age fifteen in the first half of 1937 when she was making her film "One Hundred Men and A Girl" with Leopold Stokowski.
Deanna Goes Yachting
Deanna at age eighteen sailing off the coast of Catalina Island in the spring of 1940 in a press photograph to promote her film It's a Date which includes a voyage to Hawaii. Deanna is at the helm of the ocean racing yacht which won the Trans-Pacific race to Hawaii in 1936.
Sylvia Sinclair: Independent Author, Artist and Publisher
Deanna Durbin in Fashion: Book One
Alice Lorence. Edited by Sylvia Sinclair
A concise illustrated book featuring a small selection of black and white fashion photographs of the Classical singer and soprano Deanna Durbin modelling the elegant designs of the 1930s and 1940s. The ideal book for true connoisseurs who combine an interest in Classical music in film, in particular in film operellas and operettas, with an interest in fashion design, and who wish to admire their favourite soprano dressed in the most stylish of fashions.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. Square 8.5 Inch Size. 55 Pages. Copyright 2023. Now available from Lulu.com. and, as a Soft-Cover, from other online Booksellers.
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Sylvia Sinclair: Independent Author, Artist and Publisher
Delicieuse: Deanna Durbin in Colour
Alice Lorence. Edited by Sylvia Sinclair
A picture book presenting a small selection of original natural colour photographs of the Classical singer and actress Deanna Durbin.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. Square 8.5 Inch Size. 50 Pages. Copyright 2023. Now available exclusively from Lulu.com.
Terence Lorence
The Colossus of Rhodes: An Artistic Interpretation
Terence Lorence. Illustrated by Sylvia Sinclair.
An artistic analysis examining the appearance, the method of construction, and the location of the giant statue of the nude sun god Helios on the island of Rhodes.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. 6x9 Inch Size. 100 Pages. 34,000 Words. 2 Sketch Maps. 21 Illustrations. Bibliography. First Edition, Copyright 2022. Now available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers.
The Colossus of Rhodes
A Renaissance print showing the harbour of Ostia, the port of ancient Rome, with the colossal statue of the sea god Neptune on the right, a statue whose design was based on the design of the Colossus of Rhodes.
Terence Lorence
The Ancient Greek Trireme: A New Analysis
Terence Lorence
A concise account which rejects the generally accepted idea that the trireme was a warship rowed from three different levels with one man to each oar, and which instead interprets the existing evidence in favour of a one level trireme with three men to each oar. Second revised edition with new illustrations by Sylvia Sinclair.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. 6x9 Inch Size. 52 Pages. 18,000 Words. 2 Diagrams. 9 Illustrations. Copyright 2004/2022. Now available from Lulu.com and other online Booksellers.
The Battle of Salamis
A romantic interpretation of the victory of the Athenian triremes in the Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1868.
Terence Lorence
The Philosophy of Classicism
Terence Lorence
A Platonist and Neo-Platonist analysis and defence of Classicism and Classical Culture in an Anti-Classical Age. A concise analysis written from a paternalist point of view which combines, in equal proportion, cultural elitism and elitist socialism.
Soft-Cover/Hard-Cover. 6x9 Inch Size. 108 Pages. 30,000 Words. First Edition. Copyright 2024.
A revised edition is in preparation, and the first edition is no longer in print. The revised edition will be published on November 1st of 2024.
Platonist Philosophy
The Three Graces
The Three Graces represent, in allegorical form, the three forces of Neo-Platonist Philosophy: Procession from the Divine Order, Reception of the Divine Order, Reversion to the Divine Order; the Divine Order containing, as a subset, the Ideas or Forms of Plato. Reception, the turning back to face and thus directly access the Platonic Forms of the Divine Order, is unique to Neo-Platonism; and it is the means by which humans may ascend to ever higher planes of existence by a process of self-creative evolution. In Neo-Platonism, humans are not the passive product of mere procession, a procession without order or meaning which flows downward, as in eastern religions; but instead humans, by turning back to directly access the Platonic Forms, actively receive, transform, return a procession which is ordered to begin with, thus converting procession from a flow of descent into a flow of ascent by means of which one can ascend upward in the Great Chain of Being.
Michael A. Fullerton
The Three Graces
Apelles and Campaspe: Three Interpretations by the Venetian Artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Apelles paints the portrait of Campaspe, the mistress of Alexander the Great.
In the 1st and the 3rd painting, Apelles is a self portrait of Tiepolo, while in all three paintings, Campaspe is modelled by Tiepolo's wife Cecilia.
This third version was intended for Tiepolo's own personal collection.