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(P/V/G Composer Collection). This shrink-wrapped set contains volumes 1 and 2.
Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1999-12
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ISBN : 9780769293745
(P/V/G Composer Collection). This shrink-wrapped set contains volumes 1 and 2.
Author : Kurt Weill
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Page : 57 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : Kurt Weill
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File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Kurt Weill
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File Size : 22,36 MB
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Author : Teresa Stratas
Publisher : Schott
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780769295138
(Schott). 14 art songs dating from 1925 to 1944 as masterly performed by Teresa Stratas on the Nonesuch record. Includes: Berlin im Licht-Song * Buddy on the Nightshift * Es regnet * Je ne t'aime pas * Klops Lied * Nanna's Lied * Youkali (Tango Habanera) * and more.
Author : Maxwell Anderson
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
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ISBN : 9781258287412
Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520271777
“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
Author : Ronald Sanders
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Weill's life and career from his studies with Busoni through his early concert works, his Berlin collaborations, his flight to America, and his Broadway years.
Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879109905
(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."
Author : Naomi Graber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190906588
"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"--