The Resource Kurt Weill on stage : from Berlin to Broadway, Foster Hirsch
Kurt Weill on stage : from Berlin to Broadway, Foster Hirsch
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- Summary
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- "The words are by Bertolt Brecht. The music is by Kurt Weill. The song is "Mack the Knife," the number-one song of Weill's internationally famous Threepenny Opera, originally performed on a stage in the Weimar Berlin of 1928. Its tough, sexy sound became, a quarter-century later, a signature song of America's greatest recording stars, among them Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra."
- "And when in 1933 Weill, already Germany's most renowned composer, fled the Nazis to come to America ("For every age there is a place about which fantasies are written. In Mozart's time it was Turkey. For Shakespeare, it was Italy. For us in Germany, it was always America"), he joined his appetite for the United States to his European roots and classical training and soon became one of the most admired composers of the American musical stage."
- "He wrote one successful Broadway show after another - Lady in the Dark, Knickerbocker Holiday, One Touch of Venus, Street Scene, Lost in the Stars, among others. He worked with such theatrical greats as Gertrude Lawrence, Ira Gershwin, Maxwell Anderson, Mary Martin, Agnes de Mille, Joshua Logan, Ogden Nash, Harold Clurman, Walter Huston, E.Y. Harburg, and Elia Kazan. Always at the center of his life was his great love of thirty years, his leading lady, interpreter of his music, his wife (they were divorced in Berlin in 1933 but remarried four years later in America), the actress-singer Lotte Lenya."
- "Foster Hirsch, using Weill's letters, journals, and notes, and interviewing Weill's friends and colleagues, writes about his life, his experimental, political composing in Germany, his Broadway music in America - both aspects of his work being a source of controversy among music lovers for years."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- vi, 403 pages
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Slouching toward Armageddon
- 6.
- Last rites
- 7.
- In transit
- 8.
- The road to America
- 9.
- How can you tell an American
- 1.
- 10.
- Limelight
- 11.
- I'm a stranger here myself
- 12.
- Much ado
- 13.
- Street opera
- 14.
- Before Sondheim
- Overture
- 15.
- Cry, the beloved country
- 16.
- The widow Weill
- 17.
- Coda
- 2.
- Enter BB
- 3.
- Night sounds
- 4.
- The second time around
- Isbn
- 9780375403750
- Label
- Kurt Weill on stage : from Berlin to Broadway
- Title
- Kurt Weill on stage
- Title remainder
- from Berlin to Broadway
- Statement of responsibility
- Foster Hirsch
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "The words are by Bertolt Brecht. The music is by Kurt Weill. The song is "Mack the Knife," the number-one song of Weill's internationally famous Threepenny Opera, originally performed on a stage in the Weimar Berlin of 1928. Its tough, sexy sound became, a quarter-century later, a signature song of America's greatest recording stars, among them Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra."
- "And when in 1933 Weill, already Germany's most renowned composer, fled the Nazis to come to America ("For every age there is a place about which fantasies are written. In Mozart's time it was Turkey. For Shakespeare, it was Italy. For us in Germany, it was always America"), he joined his appetite for the United States to his European roots and classical training and soon became one of the most admired composers of the American musical stage."
- "He wrote one successful Broadway show after another - Lady in the Dark, Knickerbocker Holiday, One Touch of Venus, Street Scene, Lost in the Stars, among others. He worked with such theatrical greats as Gertrude Lawrence, Ira Gershwin, Maxwell Anderson, Mary Martin, Agnes de Mille, Joshua Logan, Ogden Nash, Harold Clurman, Walter Huston, E.Y. Harburg, and Elia Kazan. Always at the center of his life was his great love of thirty years, his leading lady, interpreter of his music, his wife (they were divorced in Berlin in 1933 but remarried four years later in America), the actress-singer Lotte Lenya."
- "Foster Hirsch, using Weill's letters, journals, and notes, and interviewing Weill's friends and colleagues, writes about his life, his experimental, political composing in Germany, his Broadway music in America - both aspects of his work being a source of controversy among music lovers for years."--Jacket
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hirsch, Foster
- Dewey number
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- 782.1/092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML410.W395
- LC item number
- H57 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Composers
- Weill, Kurt
- Label
- Kurt Weill on stage : from Berlin to Broadway, Foster Hirsch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Slouching toward Armageddon
- 6.
- Last rites
- 7.
- In transit
- 8.
- The road to America
- 9.
- How can you tell an American
- 1.
- 10.
- Limelight
- 11.
- I'm a stranger here myself
- 12.
- Much ado
- 13.
- Street opera
- 14.
- Before Sondheim
- Overture
- 15.
- Cry, the beloved country
- 16.
- The widow Weill
- 17.
- Coda
- 2.
- Enter BB
- 3.
- Night sounds
- 4.
- The second time around
- Control code
- 48964903
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- vi, 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375403750
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002018450
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Kurt Weill on stage : from Berlin to Broadway, Foster Hirsch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Slouching toward Armageddon
- 6.
- Last rites
- 7.
- In transit
- 8.
- The road to America
- 9.
- How can you tell an American
- 1.
- 10.
- Limelight
- 11.
- I'm a stranger here myself
- 12.
- Much ado
- 13.
- Street opera
- 14.
- Before Sondheim
- Overture
- 15.
- Cry, the beloved country
- 16.
- The widow Weill
- 17.
- Coda
- 2.
- Enter BB
- 3.
- Night sounds
- 4.
- The second time around
- Control code
- 48964903
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- vi, 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375403750
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002018450
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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