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Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein - A Study of Influence (Hardcover)
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Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein - A Study of Influence (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on
operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein.
Theodor Adorno famously proclaimed that the model of Kurt Weill
could not be repeated. Yet Weill's stage works set an inescapable
precedent for composers on both sides of the Atlantic. Rebecca
Schmid explores how Weill's formal innovations in particular laid
the groundwork for operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and
Leonard Bernstein, although both composers resisted or downplayed
his aesthetic contribution to American tradition. Comparative
analysis based on Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence and other
modes of intertextuality reveals that the principles of Weill's
opera reform would catalyze an indigenous movement in
sophisticated, socially engaged music theatre. Weill, Blitzstein,
and Bernstein: A Study of Influence focuses on works that represent
different phases of Weill's mission to renew the genre of opera,
evolving from Die Dreigroschenoper to the musical play Lady in the
Dark and the Broadway Opera Street Scene. Blitzstein and Bernstein
in turn defied formal boundaries with The Cradle Will Rock, Regina,
Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, and West Side Story - part of a
short-lived movement in mid-twentieth century America that
coincided with a renaissance for Weill's German-period works
following the premiere of Blitzstein's translation, The Threepenny
Opera, under Bernstein's baton. The unpublished A Pray by Blecht,
for which Bernstein rejoined Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins,
his collaborators on West Side Story, deepens the connection of
Bernstein's aesthetic to Weill.
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