Kurt Weill Songs - A Centennial Anthology - Volumes 1 & 2

Kurt Weill Songs - A Centennial Anthology - Volumes 1 & 2 PDF Author: Kurt Weill
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780769293745
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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(P/V/G Composer Collection). This shrink-wrapped set contains volumes 1 and 2.

Kurt Weill Songs - A Centennial Anthology - Volumes 1 & 2

Kurt Weill Songs - A Centennial Anthology - Volumes 1 & 2 PDF Author: Kurt Weill
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780769293745
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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(P/V/G Composer Collection). This shrink-wrapped set contains volumes 1 and 2.

One Touch of Venus

One Touch of Venus PDF Author: Kurt Weill
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Kurt Weill on Stage

Kurt Weill on Stage PDF Author: Foster Hirsch
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879109905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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(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."

Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday PDF Author: Maxwell Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258287412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera PDF Author: Stephen Hinton
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521338882
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over three decades, Stephen Hinton examines the spin-offs on which Weill and Brecht participated: the instrumental suite, the film, the lawsuit, the novel, and the musical and textual revisions of songs. In a survey of the stage history, Hinton pays particular attention to pioneering productions in Germany and Great 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 analyses large-scale motivic relationships in the music. Among the earliest writings on the work reprinted here, those by Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin appear for the first time in English translation. The book contains numerous illustrations, a discography, and music examples.

Happy End

Happy End PDF Author: Kurt Weill
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681905
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Kurt Weill's America

Kurt Weill's America PDF Author: Naomi Graber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190906588
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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"This book traces composer Kurt Weill's changing relationship with the idea of "America." Throughout his life, Weill was fascinated by the idea of America. His European works such as The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), depict America as a capitalist dystopia filled with gangsters and molls. But in 1935, it became clear that Europe was no longer safe for the Jewish Weill, and he set sail for New World. Once he arrived, he found the culture nothing like he imagined, and his engagement with American culture shifted in intriguing ways. From that point forward, most 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 are somewhat unique. He was more attuned than native-born citizens to the difficult relationship America had with her immigrants. However, it took him longer to understand the subtleties in other issues, particularly those surrounding race relations. Weill worked within transnational network of musicians, writers, artists, and other stage professionals, all of whom influenced each other's styles. 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"--

Highbrow/lowdown

Highbrow/lowdown PDF Author: David Savran
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472116924
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The culture clash that permanently changed American theater

Lost in the Stars

Lost in the Stars PDF Author: Maxwell Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258246679
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Showtime

Showtime PDF Author: Larry Stempel
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393929065
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A definitive, accessible, and comprehensive history of the Broadway musical.