Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera
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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 One such is Brecht's hitherto unpublished concert version which is included here in English translation.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 The Threepenny Opera
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Author : Stephen Hinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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The Threepenny Opera
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Author : Kurt Weill
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 1964
The Threepenny Opera written by Kurt Weill and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Drama categories.
Brecht's famous adaptation to the modern era of John Gay's The beggar's opera, satirizing social and political beliefs through its portrayal of a world of thieves and prostitutes.
The Threepenny Opera
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Author : Bertolt Brecht
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-10
The Threepenny Opera written by Bertolt Brecht and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-10 with Performing Arts categories.
One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
The Threepenny Opera Music By Kurt Weill Original German Text And Lyrics By Bert Brecht English Adaptation By Marc Blitzstein
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Author : Kurt Weill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Threepenny Opera Music By Kurt Weill Original German Text And Lyrics By Bert Brecht English Adaptation By Marc Blitzstein written by Kurt Weill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Operas categories.
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."
The Collected Poems Of Bertolt Brecht
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Author : Bertolt Brecht
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-04
The Collected Poems Of Bertolt Brecht written by Bertolt Brecht and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Poetry categories.
Times Literary Supplement • Books of the Year ("The most generous available English collection of Brecht’s poetry.") A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most extensive English translation of Brecht’s poetry to date. Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very rare phenomenon, a great poet, for whom poetry is an almost everyday visitation and drawing of breath.” Hugely prolific, Brecht also wrote more than two thousand poems—though fewer than half were published in his lifetime, and early translations were heavily censored. Now, award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have heroically translated more than 1,200 poems in the most comprehensive English collection of Brecht’s poetry to date. Written between 1913 and 1956, these poems celebrate Brecht’s unquenchable “love of life, the desire for better and more of it,” and reflect the technical virtuosity of an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, as well as by the untrammeled forces of love and erotic desire. A monumental achievement and a reclamation, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is a must-have for any lover of twentieth-century poetry.
Operetta
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Author : Richard Traubner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-06
Operetta written by Richard Traubner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06 with Art categories.
Considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon.
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.