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Looking for books by Joseph Carl Breil? See all books authored by Joseph Carl Breil, including The Legend: A Lyric Tragedy in one Act, and The Legend: A Lyric Tragedy in one Act, and more on ThriftBooks.com.
The first novel in the series is City of Ice (1999), followed by Ice Lake (2001), River City (2011), The River Burns (2014), The Storm Murders (2015), and will include Seven Days Dead and The Talisman Quarry by 2016-2017.
Joseph Carl Breil (29 June 1870 – 23 January 1926) was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures. His first film was Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt.
He had been arguing with Joseph Carl Breil, his collaborator on the score for The Birth of a Nation. Griffith wanted to change some of the notes in the music they were planning to borrow, and Breil was outraged.
Books: Lindsay, Vachel, The Art of the Moving Picture , New York, 1915; revised edition, 1922. Paine, Albert Bigelow, Life and Lillian Gish , New York, 1932.
Joseph Breil spent much of his career composing vocal compositions for church and the theater from 1903 to 1909: a requiem and two other masses, vesper service, sacred songs and anthems, and popular songs including The Song of the Soul, If Dreams Came True, A Toast to Angeline, Boatman's Love Song; and also incidental music for The Climax at ...
The film consists of four distinct, but parallel, stories—intercut with increasing frequency as the film builds to a climax—that demonstrate mankind’s persistent intolerance throughout the ages. The timeline covers approximately 2,500 years.
