Musik und Theater. Gesammelte Schriften. Mit einer Auswahl von Gesprachen und Interviews

John, Eckhard; Weill, Kurt; Hinton, Stephen; Schebera, Jürgen

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“…41 If Weill may have deluded himself about the extent to which he upheld his teacher's principles as he adapted to the commercial demands of American theatre, 42 he remained committed to what he in 1928 termed 'theatre music (in a Mozartean sense)' in which form, above all, determines a work's viability. 43 'The ideal composer is the one (like Mozart) who gives all these different elements of music equal importance', he wrote in 1949, 'so that they all contribute equally towards the one aim which is form.' 44 Later that year, he admitted to a friend in Germany that 'everybody thought I was crazy when I started with serious musical plays', as opposed to the revues and musical comedies of which Broadway consisted 'almost entirely' upon his arrival in the USA.…”

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‘The Saga of Lenny’: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Weill's Lady in the Dark

Schmid

2023

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Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti created a stepping stone towards his own brand of serious but accessible music theater. While he dedicated the opera in seven scenes to Marc Blitzstein, that path was paved by the formal innovations of Kurt Weill. A comparative analysis of Trouble in Tahiti with Lady in the Dark reveals that Bernstein derived essential impulses from Weill's musical play, although the few statements he made about his music indicate ambivalence and competition, particularly with regard to Weill's American works. As Bernstein's female protagonist, Dinah, struggles to define herself vis-à-vis the institution of marriage, the themes of psychoanalysis, Hollywood glamour and the use of song as a meta-dramatic topic emerge as common threads. Select harmonies, instrumentation and rhythmic devices further evince debts to the precursor of Weill. But while Liza of Lady in the Dark finds her musical cure, Dinah does not meet with personal fulfilment.

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‘The Saga of Lenny’: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Weill's Lady in the Dark

Schmid

2023

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Musik und Theater. Gesammelte Schriften. Mit einer Auswahl von Gesprachen und Interviews

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‘The Saga of Lenny’: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Weill's Lady in the Dark

‘The Saga of Lenny’: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Weill's Lady in the Dark

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