| Description |
xvi, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration, music ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"All but two of the essays included in this collection evolved from papers presented originally at the first international conference on Kurt Weill in New Haven, Connecticut, 2-5 November 1983"--Pref. |
| Bibliography |
"Chronology of Weill's life and works": pages 343-357. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Looking back : toward a new Orpheus / Kim H. Kowalke -- Creating a public, addressing a market : Kurt Weill and Universal Edition / Christopher Hailey -- Kleinkunst and Küchenlied in the socio-musical world of Kurt Weill / Alexander L. Ringer -- Kurt Weill's operatic reform and its context / John Rockwell -- Weill : Neue Sachlichkeit, surrealism, and Gebrauchsmusik / Stephen Hinton -- Der Zar lässt sich photographieren : Weill and comic opera / Susan C. Cook -- Crossing the cusp : the Schoenberg connection / Alan Chapman -- Music as metaphor : aspects of Der Silbersee / Ian Kemp -- Weill and Berg : Lulu as epic opera / Douglas Jarman -- Most unpleasant things with The threepenny opera : Weill, Brecht, and money / John Fuegi -- "Suiting the action to the word" : some observations of Gestus and Gestische Musik / Michael Morley -- The genesis of Die sieben Todsünden / Ronald K. Shull -- Reflections on the last years : Der Kuhhandel as a key work / David Drew -- The road to The eternal road / Guy Stern -- Weill in America : the problem of revival / Matthew Scott -- Musical dialects in Down in the valley / John Graziano -- Street scene and the enigma of Broadway opera / Larry Stempel. |
| Subject |
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Added Author |
Kowalke, Kim H., 1948-
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| ISBN |
0300035144 alkaline paper |
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