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Marc Blitzstein
Author | : Howard Pollack |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780199977086 |
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A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist and social maverick, Blitzstein constantly pushed the boundaries of convention in mid-century America in both his work and his life. Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography covers Blitzstein's life in full, from his childhood in Philadelphia to his violent death in Martinique at age 58. The author describes how this student of contemporary luminaries Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schoenberg became swept up in the stormy political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s and throughout his career walked the fine line between his formal training and his populist principles. Indeed, Blitzstein developed a unique sound that drew on everything contemporary, from the high modernism of Stravinsky and Hindemith to jazz and Broadway show tunes. Pollack captures the astonishing breadth of Blitzstein's work--from provocative operas like The Cradle Will Rock, No for an Answer, and Regina, to the wartime Airborne Symphony composed during his years in service, to lesser known ballets, film scores, and stage works. A courageous artist, Blitzstein translated Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera during the heyday of McCarthyism and the red scare, and turned it into an off-Broadway sensation, its "Mack the Knife" becoming one of the era's biggest hits. Beautifully written, drawing on new interviews with friends and family of the composer, and making extensive use of new archival and secondary sources, Marc Blitzstein presents the most complete biography of this important American artist.
Mark the Music
Author | : Eric A. Gordon |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780595092482 |
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The recently released Tim Robbins film Cradle Will Rock reawakened worldwide audiences to composer Marc Blitzstein's runaway Broadway hit of 1937, and to the exciting times he lived in. Blitzstein went on to write Regina (based on Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes"), the definitive translation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, and an enormous amount of other music based squarely in American and Broadway traditions. Mark the Music is an engaging biography of this larger-than-life composer that reads like a novel. Practically every page features an illuminating and revealing pen portrait of the most important creative personalities in American culture—Orson Welles, John Houseman, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Robeson, Sean O'Casey, Agnes de Mille, Lotte Lenya, Melvyn Douglas, Shirley Both, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Earl Robinson, Rudolf Bing, and many more. A vibrant journey through mid-20th century America comes to life through the eyes and experience of Marc Blitzstein. The issues that marked Blitzstein's day—censorship, repression, war—are all with us today. This is a story of passion, defiance, glory and tragedy, and ultimately of faith in democratic American values expressed through the arts.
The Cradle Will Rock
Author | : Marc Blitzstein |
Publsiher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 101378393X |
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An Exhibition of the Marc Blitzstein Papers Nov 1 6 1965 Union Theater
Author | : University of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015023761201 |
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Social Criticism in the Original Theatre Librettos of Marc Blitzstein
Author | : Paul Myers Talley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : WISC:89010955292 |
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The Cultural Front
Author | : Michael Denning |
Publsiher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1859841708 |
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As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
The Marc Blitzstein Songbook
Author | : Marc Blitzstein |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cantatas, Secular |
ISBN | : UOM:39015054355774 |
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Communists in Closets
Author | : Bettina Aptheker |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2022-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000650686 |
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Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as "degenerates." It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers in political history, gender studies, and the history of sexuality.