{"product_id":"weill-blitzstein-and-bernstein-9781648250606","title":"Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheodor 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of Influence \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on works that represent different phases of Weill's mission to renew the genre of opera, evolving from \u003ci\u003eDie Dreigroschenoper\u003c\/i\u003e to the musical play \u003ci\u003eLady in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e and the Broadway Opera \u003ci\u003eStreet Scene\u003c\/i\u003e. Blitzstein and Bernstein in turn defied formal boundaries with \u003ci\u003eThe Cradle Will Rock\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Regina\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrouble in Tahiti\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCandide,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story\u003c\/i\u003e - 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, under Bernstein's baton. The unpublished \u003ci\u003eA Pray by Blecht\u003c\/i\u003e, for which Bernstein rejoined Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins, his collaborators on \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story\u003c\/i\u003e, deepens the connection of Bernstein's aesthetic to Weill.","brand":"Rebecca Schmid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280763957499,"sku":"9781648250606","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781648250606.jpg?v=1772485989","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/weill-blitzstein-and-bernstein-9781648250606","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}