Kurt Weill S America
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Kurt Weill S America
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Author : Naomi Graber
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-27
Kurt Weill S America written by Naomi Graber and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-27 with Music categories.
Throughout his life, German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill was fascinated by the idea of America. His European works depict America as a Capitalist dystopia. But in 1935, it became clear that Europe was no longer safe for Weill, and he set sail for New World, and his engagement with American culture shifted. From that point forward, most of his works concerned the idea of "America," whether celebrating her successes, or critiquing her shortcomings. As an outsider-turned-insider, Weill's insights into American culture were unique. He was keenly attuned to the difficult relationship America had with her immigrants, but was slower to grasp the subtleties of others, particularly those surrounding race relations, even though his works reveal that he was devoted to the idea of racial equality. The book treats Weill as a node in a transnational network of musicians, writers, artists, and other stage professionals, all of whom influenced each other. Weill sought out partners from a range of different sectors, including the Popular Front, spoken drama, and the commercial Broadway stage. His personal papers reveal his attempts to navigate not only the shifting tides of American culture, but the specific demands of his institutional and individual collaborators. In reframing Weill's relationship with immigration and nationality, the book also puts nuance contemporary ideas about the relationships of immigrants to their new homes, moving beyond ideas that such figures must either assimilate and abandon their previous identities, or resist the pull of their new home and stay true to their original culture.
Weill S Musical Theater
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Author : Stephen Hinton
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-04-10
Weill S Musical Theater written by Stephen Hinton and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“This book, the first scholarly consideration of Weill’s complete output of stage works, is without doubt the most important critical study of the composer’s oeuvre to date in any language. Hinton’s scholarship is superior and his insights original and illuminating. The product of several decades of engagement with Weill’s works, their sources and reception, as well as the secondary literature, the book is a stunning achievement. Brilliantly conceived and executed, it will take its place as one of the cornerstones of Weill studies.”—Kim H. Kowalke, University of Rochester and President, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music “In Weill’s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform, Stephen Hinton reminds us that Kurt Weill was always a revolutionary. The composer’s insistent dedication to a provocative, constantly evolving lyric theater that spoke directly to audiences meant that Weill remained as controversial as he was popular. The celebrity that endeared him to Broadway made him anathema in Berlin. Some sixty years after Weill’s death, Hinton is finally able to demonstrate the consistent brilliance, theatrical power, and coherence of a composer who revolutionized every genre he touched (or used) and whose collaborators read as a who’s who of twentieth-century theater.” —David Savran, author of Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class "Stephen Hinton presents us with an image of Weill that is at once monumental yet still alive. A truly Protean figure, Weill is not an easy man to grasp in his totality; Brecht once wrote that a man thrown into water will have to develop webbed feet, and as a refugee from Nazi Germany, Weill had to become a cultural amphibian. But in Weill's Musical Theater we see the composer from every angle: through the gaze of countless critics and reviewers, through Weill's own eyes, and finally through the filter of Hinton's judicious, focused prose. This account will stand."—Daniel Albright, author of Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts
Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera
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Author : Stephen Hinton
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1990-07-26
Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera written by Stephen Hinton and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-07-26 with Music categories.
This is the first book on the best-known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations to explore the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. Described as 'the weightiest possible lowbrow opera for highbrows and the most full-blooded highbrow musical for lowbrows' (Hans Keller), the enduringly popular Threepenny Opera has given rise not only to interpretations as numerous as they are diverse but also to new adaptations. One such is Brecht's hitherto unpublished concert version which is included here in English translation. Even the stage work generally known today departs significantly from what was performed at the premiere in 1928. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over three decades, the editor examines the spin-offs in which the authors participated: the instrumental suite, the film, the law suit, the novel, and the musical and textual revisions of songs. In a brisk survey of the stage history, the editor pays particular attention to pioneering productions in Germany and Britain. Kim Kowalke provides an exhaustive account of the history of The Threepenny Opera in America, Geoffrey Abbott addresses questions concerning authentic performance practice, and David Drew analyzes large-scale motivic relationships in the music. Among the earlier writings on the work reprinted here, those by Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin appear for the first time in English translation. A concluding chapter by the editor considers whether The Threepenny Opera's popularity rests, as frequently maintained, on a misunderstanding. The book contains numerous illustrations, a discography, and music examples.
Kurt Weill On Stage
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Author : Foster Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2004-02-01
Kurt Weill On Stage written by Foster Hirsch and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
(Limelight). His best-known song is "Mack the Knife," with words by Bertolt Brecht, from The Threepenny Opera , first performed in Weimar Berlin in 1928. Five years later, Kurt Weill fled the Nazis to come to America, where he soon emerged as one of the most admired composers of the Broadway musical stage. His shows included: Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus, Street Scene and Lost in the Stars . His songs: "My Ship," "September Song," "Speak Low" and "It Never Was You." This biography concentrates on Weill's career in the United States, but its aim is to explore the truth in the comment made by Weill's wife, the unforgettable Lotte Lenya: "There is no American Weill, there is no German Weill. There is no difference between them. There is only Weill."
Dictionary Of American Classical Composers
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Author : Neil Butterworth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-02
Dictionary Of American Classical Composers written by Neil Butterworth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-02 with Music categories.
The Dictionary of American Classical Composers covers over 650 composers active from the 18th century to today. Covering all classical styles, it offers the most comprehensive overview of key composers in the United States available. Entries include basic biographical information and critical analysis of each composer's key works and ideas. Entries also include worklists and bibliographic information. Whenever possible, the entries will have been checked by the composers themselves to assure greatest possible accuracy. This new edition, completely updated and expanded from the 1984 edition, also includes over 200 historic photographs.
Encyclopedia Of American Opera
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Author : Ken Wlaschin
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2024-10-16
Encyclopedia Of American Opera written by Ken Wlaschin and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-16 with Music categories.
This encyclopedia lists, describes and cross-references everything to do with American opera: works (both operas and operettas), composers, librettists, singers, and source authors, along with relevant recordings. The approximately 1,750 entries range from ballad operas and composers of the 18th century to modern minimalists and video opera artists. Each opera entry consists of plot, history, premiere and cast, followed by a chronological listing of recordings, movies and videos.
Speak Low When You Speak Love
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Author : Kurt Weill
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1997-11-01
Speak Low When You Speak Love written by Kurt Weill and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-01 with Music categories.
Selected letters trace the relationship of the composer and actress, who were married for twenty-four years
Maxwell Anderson And The Classical Tradition
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Author : Robert J. Rabel
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-04-15
Maxwell Anderson And The Classical Tradition written by Robert J. Rabel and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that dominated Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Anderson is an important, though often forgotten, figure in the history of American drama and the Classical Tradition. The book highlights Anderson’s remarkably creative use of classical antiquity, while also illustrating how he served as a first-hand witness and reactor to some of the main social and political events of his time. It explores Anderson’s major theatrical works and adaptations of ancient Greek drama and poetry, including Winterset, The Winged Victory, the never-published Ulysses Africanus, and Bad Seed, as well as his later minor works. Anderson found in tragedians such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides ideal models for the dramatic portrayal of human emotion amidst the social and political backdrop of the United States from the interwar period to the nuclear age, which this book seeks to explore at length for the first time. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of Classical Reception and the Classical Tradition, as well as those working on twentieth century American literature, drama, history, and politics.
Lost In The Stars
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Author : Maxwell Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Lost In The Stars written by Maxwell Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with categories.
The Federal Theatre Project In The American South
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Author : Cecelia Moore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2017-09-26
The Federal Theatre Project In The American South written by Cecelia Moore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with History categories.
The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935, she envisioned a national theatre comprised of a network of theatres across the country. A regional approach was more than organizational; it was a conceptual model for a national art. Flanagan was part of the little theatre movement that had already developed a new American drama drawn from the distinctive heritage of each region and which they believed would, collectively, illustrate a national identity. The Federal Theatre plan relied on a successful regional model – the folk drama program at the University of North Carolina, led by Frederick Koch and Paul Green. Through a unique partnership of public university, private philanthropy and community participation, Koch had developed a successful playwriting program and extension service that built community theatres throughout the state. North Carolina, along with the rest of the Southern region, seemed an unpromising place for government theatre. Racial segregation and conservative politics limited the Federal Theatre’s ability to experiment with new ideas in the region. Yet in North Carolina, the Project thrived. Amateur drama units became vibrant community theatres where whites and African Americans worked together. Project personnel launched The Lost Colony, one of the first so-called outdoor historical dramas that would become its own movement. The Federal Theatre sent unemployed dramatists, including future novelist Betty Smith, to the university to work with Koch and Green. They joined other playwrights, including African American writer Zora Neale Hurston, who came to North Carolina because of their own interest in folk drama. Their experience, told in this book, is a backdrop for each successive generation’s debates over government, cultural expression, art and identity in the American nation.