Download or read book Kurt Weill s Little Masterpieces written by Abigail S. Kimball and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on three songs from stage works of Kurt Weill (1900-1950): "September Song" from Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), "Speak Low" from One Touch of Venus (1943), and "Lost in the Stars" from Lost in the Stars (1949). All from Weills time in the United States, these songs are adaptable as solos and have become American standards performed in various arrangements and styles of popular music by many different artists.The first part of this study is a biographical sketch of Weills life and music. It is intended to provide context for the three songs by tracing his beginnings as a German composer of stage works with volatile political messages, to his flight to the United States and his emergence as a composer of Broadway successes.The second part is a commentary on the composition of the three selected songs. The lyrics and musical content are examined to show how Weills settings convey the dramatic mood and meaning as well as the specific nuances of the words. Description of the context of these songs explains how they were textually and musically intended to advance the plot and the emotional arc of the dramatic characters. The popularity of these songs endures beyond their original shows, and so there is discussion of how other artists have adapted and performed them, and available recordings are cited.Weills songs, his little masterpieces, have proven to be truly evocative and so attractive to American audiences that they have undergone myriad adaptations. This study seeks to provide the personal and historical background of Kurt Weills music and to demonstrate why these three songs in particular have proven to have such lasting appeal.
Download or read book Kurt Weill written by David Farneth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 900 photographs, including stills, musical scores, playbills, the composer's notes and other original artwork, Kurt Weill is an addition to any theater or music lover's collection."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Speak Low When You Speak Love written by Kurt Weill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected letters trace the relationship of the composer and actress, who were married for twenty-four years
Download or read book Kurt Weill written by Jürgen Schebera and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the life of Kurt Weill, this text explores the phases of the composer's life, from his childhood as the son of a cantor in the Jewish section of Dessau, Germany, to his renunciation of Germany in 1933. It also looks at his emigration to America (1935) and his premature death (1950).
Download or read book Kurt Weill Edition written by Kurt Weill and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost in the Stars written by Kurt Weill and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brothers written by David Talbot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this astonishingly compelling and convincing new account of the Kennedy years, acclaimed journalist David Talbot tells in a riveting, superbly researched narrative why, even on 22 November 1963, RFK had reason to believe that dark forces were at work in Dallas and reveals, for the first time, that he planned to open an investigation into the assassination had he become president in 1968. BROTHERS also portrays a JFK administration more besieged by internal enemies than has previously been realised, from within the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI and the mafia. This frightening portrait of sinister elements within and without the government serves as the background for the emotionally charged journey of Robert Kennedy. Reading it, you can absolutely believe any number of people would have been happy for both brothers to meet a sticky end. The tragedy, not just for America but for the world, is that since their murders no one has had the nerve to stand against the dark forces they challenged in quite the same way.
Download or read book Thousands of Miles written by Ellen Stern and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mack the Knife," composed with Bertolt Brecht for the Threepenny Opera, and "September Song" from Knickerbocker Holiday are among Kurt Weill's most popular songs. Weill experienced tremendous success, significant losses, and turbulence in his family and love lives, which catalyzed his musical and theatrical compositions, accounting for the continued international popularity of his works. Creator of Mahagonny, Lady in the Dark, Street Scene, Lost in the Stars, and many other innovative masterpieces, his extensive repertoire includes well-known songs and instrumental music. Kurt Weill is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential composers. Weill married actress and singer, Lotte Lenya, who performed many of Weill's theatrical works. Lenya dedicated herself to ensuring the recognition and promotion of all his musical genius and legacy. This biography provides insight into the events and influences that shaped their challenging relationship.
Download or read book Kurt Weill an Illustrated Biography written by Douglas Jarman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the life of Kurt Weil, a German composer who spent his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, including The Threepenny Opera, a Marxist critique of capitalism, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife".
Download or read book Love Song written by Ethan Mordden and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the 20th-century's most influential artists. Mordden shows the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in a dual biography scored to music from Weil's greatest triumphs.
Download or read book The Days Grow Short written by Ronald Sanders and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book An Autobiography written by George Grosz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union—omitted from the original English-language edition—as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Harold Clurman written by Harold Clurman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For six decades, Harold Clurman illuminated our artistic, social, and political awareness in thousands of reviews, essays, and lectures. His work appeared indefatigably in The Nation, The New Republic, The London Observer, The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, New York Magazine , and more. The Collected Works of Harold Clurman captures over six hundred of Clurman's encounters with the most significant events in American theatre as well as his regular passionate embraces of dance, music, art and film. This chronological epic offers the most comprehensive view of American theatre seen through the eyes of our most extraordinary critic. 1102 pages, hardcover.
Download or read book Kurt Weill Songs written by Kurt Weill and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kurt Weill on Stage written by Foster Hirsch and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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."
Download or read book The Unknown Kurt Weill written by Teresa Stratas and published by Schott. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Schott). 14 art songs dating from 1925 to 1944 as masterly performed by Teresa Stratas on the Nonesuch record. Includes: Berlin im Licht-Song * Buddy on the Nightshift * Es regnet * Je ne t'aime pas * Klops Lied * Nanna's Lied * Youkali (Tango Habanera) * and more.
Download or read book Kurt Weill written by David Drew and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book will be widely recognized as one of the fundamental musicological resources for the study of Weill's music and life . . . [and] the basis for all future work in the field."--Kim K. Kowalke, The Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester
