Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933

ISBN-13: 9781009172783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

Emily (Kings College London) MacGregor

Opis

Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.

Spis treści

1. Between Europe and America: Kurt Weill's Symphony in a Suitcase; 2. Listening for the Intimsphäre in Hans Pfitzner's Symphony in C-sharp Minor: Berlin; 3. Liberalism, Race, and the American West in Roy Harris's Symphony 1933: Boston – New York; 4. Aaron Copland's and Carlos Chávez's Pan American Bounding Line: New York – Mexico City; 5. Arthur Honegger's 'modernised Eroica': Paris – Berlin; 6. The right kind of symphonist: Florence Price and Kurt Weill New York & Chicago 1933–1934 – London, 2020.