The days grow short : the life and music of Kurt Weill / Ronald Sanders.
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Gelman stacks
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ML 410 .W395 S2 (show me on map) | Available | Request |
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LIB stacks
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ML410.W395 S2 | Available | Request |
| George Mason | |||
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Fenwick Music - Books
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ML410.W395 S2 | Available | Request |
| Georgetown | |||
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Off-Campus Shelving
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ML410.W395 S2 | Available | Request |
| Other Title |
Kurt Weill
Life and music of Kurt Weill |
| Other Authors |
Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)
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| Subjects |
Componisten.
Composers -- Biography. Composers. Compositeurs -- Allemagne -- Biographies. Compositeurs -- États-Unis -- Biographies. Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Weill, Kurt. |
| Description |
viii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| Copyright Date |
[1980]
©1980 |
| Notes |
"Kurt Weill's principal compositions": pages 434-441.
Discography: pages 442-449. Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-433) and index. Also issued online. |
| Summary |
Synopsis: 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.
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| Contents |
Prologue: In search of Kurt Weill -- Two cornerstones -- In times of tumult and war -- Ferruccio Busoni -- Young modernist -- New turnings -- Composing opera -- Enter Bertolt Brecht -- Birth of The Threepenny Opera -- On The Threepenny Opera -- 1929 -- Mahagonny Opera -- School opera: Der Jasager -- Threepenny trial and film -- Goodbye to Berlin -- Paris interlude -- Road to New York -- Taking on Broadway: Johnny Johnson -- First Sally into Hollywood -- Back to old New York: Knickerbocker Holiday -- Looking for niche -- Success on Broadway: Lady in the Dark -- Composer in wartime -- Broadway sophistication: One Touch of Venus -- Last efforts with Ira Gershwin -- Broadway opera: Street Scene -- Promised lands -- Musical tragedy: Lost in the Stars -- Bird of passage -- Epilogue since 1950: Legacy of Kurt Weill -- Source notes and bibliographies -- Kurt Weill's principal compositions -- Kurt Weill discography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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| Genre |
Biography.
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| Network Numbers |
(OCoLC)5170488
(OCoLC)ocm05170488 |
| WorldCat | Search OCLC WorldCat |
| WorldCat Identities | Sanders, Ronald, 1932-1991.
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