Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform

ISBN-13: 9780520271777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 592 str.

Stephen Hinton

Opis

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill s experiments with a range of genresfrom one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-operabecame an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of two Weills one European, the other AmericanHinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill s artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson."