Weill's Musical Theater
Stephen Hinton
- 592 pages
- English
- PDF
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Weill's Musical Theater
Stephen Hinton
About This Book
In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genresâfrom one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-operaâbecame an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills"âone European, the other AmericanâHinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill's artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson.