[PDF] The American Songs Of Kurt Weill eBook

Author : Naomi Graber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190906588

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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"--

Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 1999-12
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ISBN : 9780769293745

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

Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879109905

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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."

Author : Suna Avci Gunther
Publisher :
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Composers
ISBN :

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History tends to divide Kurt Weill's legacy into two main categories: his Berlin operatic collaborations with Bertolt Brecht and his Broadway musicals. However, Weill's stylistic eras are far more complex and subdivided, encompassing his late Romantic roots, the "high" modernism which found its pinnacle in his studies with Busoni, the German ballad style cultivated in Dreigroschenoper and Mahagonny, the smoother cabaret style of his time in France and London, and the jazzy musical style that found firm footing in Lady in the Dark and beyond. While generally these styles were isolated and chronologically/geographically oriented in Weill's life, all are seen in the non-theatrical songs written after his immigration to the United States in 1935. Because these works have no specific character, script, or collaborators to be molded around, Weill here displays uncharacteristic freedom in the combination of his styles and the contexts in which he chooses to present them. The manipulation of these styles reveals a composer negotiating his evolving musical identity. The stylistic markings of each song are intrinsically linked to the way Weill views its poet, intended audience, message, and singer--all through the lens of contexts in which he had used those styles in the past. This study approaches these works from the perspective of a music historian, music theorist, and singer.

Author : Ronald Sanders
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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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.