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Author : Howard Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Marc Blitzstein written by Howard Pollack 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 2012-10-01 with Music categories.
A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist and social maverick, Blitzstein constantly pushed the boundaries of convention in mid-century America in both his work and his life. Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography covers Blitzstein's life in full, from his childhood in Philadelphia to his violent death in Martinique at age 58. The author describes how this student of contemporary luminaries Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schoenberg became swept up in the stormy political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s and throughout his career walked the fine line between his formal training and his populist principles. Indeed, Blitzstein developed a unique sound that drew on everything contemporary, from the high modernism of Stravinsky and Hindemith to jazz and Broadway show tunes. Pollack captures the astonishing breadth of Blitzstein's work--from provocative operas like The Cradle Will Rock, No for an Answer, and Regina, to the wartime Airborne Symphony composed during his years in service, to lesser known ballets, film scores, and stage works. A courageous artist, Blitzstein translated Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera during the heyday of McCarthyism and the red scare, and turned it into an off-Broadway sensation, its "Mack the Knife" becoming one of the era's biggest hits. Beautifully written, drawing on new interviews with friends and family of the composer, and making extensive use of new archival and secondary sources, Marc Blitzstein presents the most complete biography of this important American artist.
Mark The Music
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Author : Eric A. Gordon
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000
Mark The Music written by Eric A. Gordon and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Composers categories.
The recently released Tim Robbins film Cradle Will Rock reawakened worldwide audiences to composer Marc Blitzstein's runaway Broadway hit of 1937, and to the exciting times he lived in. Blitzstein went on to write Regina (based on Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes"), the definitive translation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, and an enormous amount of other music based squarely in American and Broadway traditions. Mark the Music is an engaging biography of this larger-than-life composer that reads like a novel. Practically every page features an illuminating and revealing pen portrait of the most important creative personalities in American culture—Orson Welles, John Houseman, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Robeson, Sean O'Casey, Agnes de Mille, Lotte Lenya, Melvyn Douglas, Shirley Both, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Earl Robinson, Rudolf Bing, and many more. A vibrant journey through mid-20th century America comes to life through the eyes and experience of Marc Blitzstein. The issues that marked Blitzstein's day—censorship, repression, war—are all with us today. This is a story of passion, defiance, glory and tragedy, and ultimately of faith in democratic American values expressed through the arts.
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The opera information resource U.S. Opera presents facts about the operas written by American composer Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964). The resource includes a list of the operas and a discography of recordings made of the operas.
Marc Blitzstein
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Author : Leonard Lehrman
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2005-09-30
Marc Blitzstein written by Leonard Lehrman and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-30 with Music categories.
Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having virtually invented opera in the American vernacular. Called the father of American opera in the vernacular by luminaries Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, Blitzstein was a masterful pianist, coach, and accompanist, though, ironically, he made more money on the lyrics to one song—Mack the Knife—than on everything else he ever did. Blitzstein's brilliant career was cut short in 1964 when he died at the age of 58. This book catalogs Blitzstein's own writings and writings about him, followed by detailed listings (chronological, alphabetical, and genre), analysis, a comprehensive performance history, and summaries of all known critiques of his 128 original musical works and 18 texts set to the music of others. Shown in detail are the ways in which Blitzstein took music from his earlier works and developed it in later works, a process that Lehrman utilized in completing (with Bernstein's and the Estate's approval) 20 Blitzstein works for performance, including The Cradle Will Rock, I've Got the Tune, No for an Answer, Idiots First, and Sacco and Vanzetti, which Blitzstein believed would be his magnum opus. The book provides a unique and full perspective on the works of one of America's greatest composers—one who deserves to be better known.
Social Criticism In The Original Theatre Librettos Of Marc Blitzstein
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Author : Paul Myers Talley
language : en
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Release Date : 1965
Social Criticism In The Original Theatre Librettos Of Marc Blitzstein written by Paul Myers Talley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with American drama categories.
An Exhibition Of The Marc Blitzstein Papers Nov 1 6 1965 Union Theater
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Author : University of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research
language : en
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Release Date : 1965
An Exhibition Of The Marc Blitzstein Papers Nov 1 6 1965 Union Theater written by University of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.
Social Criticism In The Original Theatre Librettos Of Marc Blitzstein
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Author : Paul Myers Talley
language : en
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Release Date : 1965
Social Criticism In The Original Theatre Librettos Of Marc Blitzstein written by Paul Myers Talley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with American drama categories.
The Cultural Front
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Author : Michael Denning
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1998
The Cultural Front written by Michael Denning and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
The Marc Blitzstein Songbook
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Author : Marc Blitzstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Marc Blitzstein Songbook written by Marc Blitzstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Cantatas, Secular categories.
Communists In Closets
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Author : Bettina Aptheker
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-09
Communists In Closets written by Bettina Aptheker and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-09 with History categories.
Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as "degenerates." It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers in political history, gender studies, and the history of sexuality.