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Author Crawford, Dorothy L., author

Title A windfall of musicians : Hitler's émigrés and exiles in southern California / Dorothy Lamb Crawford
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) : illustrations
Contents Europe -- Paradise? -- Otto Klemperer and the Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Performers, and Klemperer's return -- Innovative teachers in the performing arts -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Ernst Toch -- European composers in the "picture business" -- Issues of identity: Ernst Krenek, Eric Zeisl, and Ingolf Dahl -- Stravinsky in Hollywood
Summary This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influence of sixteen performers, fourteen composers, and one opera stage director, who joined this immense migration beginning in the 1930s. Some in this group were famous when they fled Europe, others would gain recognition in the young musical culture of Los Angeles, and still others struggled to establish themselves in an environment often resistant to musical innovation. Emphasizing individual voices, Crawford presents short portraits of Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and the other musicians while also considering their influence as a group--in the film industry, in music institutions in and around Los Angeles, and as teachers who trained the next generation. The book reveals a uniquely vibrant era when Southern California became a hub of unprecedented musical talent
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-291) and index
Notes English
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Subject Musicians -- California, Southern
Jewish refugees -- California, Southern
Jews, German -- California, Southern
Exiles -- United States
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
Emigration and immigration
Exiles
Jewish refugees
Jews, German
Musicians
SUBJECT California, Southern -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Southern California
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008051177
ISBN 9780300155488
0300155484
9786612351853
6612351853