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Weill's Musical Theater

Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271777
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Weill's Musical Theater written by Stephen Hinton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 on Stage

Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879109905
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Weill on Stage written by Foster Hirsch and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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."

Kurt Weill's America

Author : Naomi Graber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190906588
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Weill's America written by Naomi Graber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

One Touch of Venus

Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book One Touch of Venus written by Kurt Weill and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weill's Musical Theater

Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520951832
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Weill's Musical Theater written by Stephen Hinton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill’s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater’s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill’s experiments with a range of genres—from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera—became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills"—one European, the other American—Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill’s artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson.

Speak Low (When You Speak Love)

Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520212404
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Speak Low (When You Speak Love) written by Kurt Weill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected letters trace the relationship of the composer and actress, who were married for twenty-four years

Knickerbocker Holiday

Author : Maxwell Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258287412
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Knickerbocker Holiday written by Maxwell Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera

Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521338882
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera written by Stephen Hinton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-07-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573681905
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Happy End written by Kurt Weill and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Highbrow/lowdown

Author : David Savran
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472116924
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Highbrow/lowdown written by David Savran and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture clash that permanently changed American theater

Lost in the Stars

Author : Maxwell Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258246679
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Stars written by Maxwell Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Partnership

Author : Pamela Katz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307744167
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Partnership written by Pamela Katz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating portrait of two of the most brilliant theater artists of the twentieth century—and the women who made their work possible—is set against the explosive years of the Weimar Republic. Among the most outsized personalities of the sizzling, decadent period between the Great War and the Nazis’ rise to power were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three women vital to their work—actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elisabeth Hauptmann—joined talents to create the theatrical masterworks The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, only to split in rancor as their culture cracked open and their differences became irreconcilable. The Partnership is the first book to tell the full story of one of the most important creative collaborations of the last century, and the first to give full credit to the women who contributed their enormous gifts. Theirs is a thrilling story of artistic daring entwined with sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic’s most fevered years, a time when art and politics and society were inextricably mixed.

Showtime

Author : Larry Stempel
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393929065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Showtime written by Larry Stempel and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive, accessible, and comprehensive history of the Broadway musical.

The New Music Theater

Author : Eric Salzman
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195099362
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The New Music Theater written by Eric Salzman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover a still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book, written for the reader who comes from the contemporary worlds of music, theater, film, literature, and visual arts, provides a wealth of examples and descriptions, not only of the works themselves but of the concepts, ideas and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

Lady in the Dark

Author : bruce d. mcclung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195120124
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Lady in the Dark written by bruce d. mcclung and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

John Gay and the London Theatre

Author : Calhoun Winton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159369
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book John Gay and the London Theatre written by Calhoun Winton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first musical comedy, was the most popular dramatic piece of the eighteenth century—and is the work that John Gay (1685-1732) is best remembered for having written. That association of popular music and satiric lyrics has proved to be continuingly attractive, and variations on the Opera have flourished in this century: by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, by Duke Ellington, and most recently by Vaclav Havel. The original opera itself is played all over the world in amateur and professional productions. But John Gay's place in all this has not been well defined. His Opera is often regarded as some sort of chance event. In John Gay and the London Theatre, the first book-length study of John Gay as dramatic author, Calhoun Winton recognized the Opera as part of an entirely self-conscious career in the theatre, a career that Gay pursued from his earliest days as a writer in London and continued to follow to his death. Winton emphasizes Gay's knowledge of and affection for music, acquired, he argues, by way of his association with Handel. Although concentrating on Gay and his theatrical career, Winton also limns a vivid portrait of London itself and of the London stage of Gay's time, a period of considerable turbulence both within and outside the theatre. Gay's plays reflect in varying ways and degrees that social, political, and cultural turmoil. Winton's study sheds new light not only on Gay and the theatre, but also on the politics and culture of his era.

Enchanted Evenings

Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199741506
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Evenings written by Geoffrey Block and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block also includes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision. The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hard to find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess). Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. "A solid and fascinating work that should become a model of how to investigate and report on the evolution of a musical. Block's research is persuasive and his writing vivid. . . Indispensable for anyone who cares to know more about Broadway musicals than Playbill can provide." --Steven Bach, The Los Angeles Times Book Review