| Description |
1 online resource (x, 216 pages) : music |
| Series |
Eastman studies in music ; 189 |
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Eastman studies in music ; 189.
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| Contents |
Why influence? Anxiety and other modes of intertexuality -- "Have you seen my new opera?" : The cradle will rock, Johnny Johnson, and Die Dreigroschenoper -- "Something like opera" : Regina, Augstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonna, and Street scene -- "Make our garden grow" : Candide and Die Dreigroschenoper -- "This isn't worth drei Groschen" : West Side story and Street scene -- A pray by Blecht : revisiting the Lehrstück -- "The saga of Lenny" : Trouble in Tahiti and Lady in the dark -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"Theodor Adorno famously proclaimed that the model of Kurt Weill could not be repeated. Yet Weill's stage works set an inescapable precedent for composers on both sides of the Atlantic. Rebecca Schmid explores how Weill's formal innovations in particular laid the groundwork for operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein, although both composers resisted or downplayed his aesthetic contribution to American tradition. Comparative analysis based on Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence and other modes of intertextuality reveals that the principles of Weill's opera reform would catalyze an indigenous movement in sophisticated, socially engaged music theatre. Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of Influence focuses on works that represent different phases of Weill's mission to renew the genre of opera, evolving from Die Dreigroschenoper to the musical play Lady in the Dark and the Broadway Opera Street Scene. Blitzstein and Bernstein in turn defied formal boundaries with The Cradle Will Rock, Regina, Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, and West Side Story - part of a short-lived movement in mid-twentieth century America that coincided with a renaissance for Weill's German-period works following the premiere of Blitzstein's translation, The Threepenny Opera, under Bernstein's baton. The unpublished A Pray by Blecht, for which Bernstein rejoined Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins, his collaborators on West Side Story, deepens the connection of Bernstein's aesthetic to Weill"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-202) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2023) |
| Subject |
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950 -- Influence
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Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Blitzstein, Marc -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 fast |
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Blitzstein, Marc fast |
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Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950 fast |
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Opera -- 20th century
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Musical theater -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Musical theater
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Opera
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022053603 |
| ISBN |
9781800109322 |
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1800109326 |
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9781800109315 |
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1800109318 |
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