Composers of the Nazi era : eight portraits / by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Werner Egk : the enigmatic opportunist -- Paul Hindemith : the reluctant emigré -- Kurt Weill : a survivor on two continents -- Karl Amadeus Hartmann : the composer as dissident -- Carl Orff : man of legend -- Hans Pfitzner : Magister Teutonicus Miser -- Arnold Schoenberg : musician of contrasts -- Richard Strauss : Jupiter compromised.…”

Composers of the Nazi era : eight portraits / by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Werner Egk : the enigmatic opportunist -- Paul Hindemith : the reluctant emigré -- Kurt Weill : a survivor on two continents -- Karl Amadeus Hartmann : the composer as dissident -- Carl Orff : man of legend -- Hans Pfitzner : Magister Teutonicus Miser -- Arnold Schoenberg : musician of contrasts -- Richard Strauss : Jupiter compromised.…”
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Music and performance during the Weimar Republic /

Table of Contents: “…Stage and screen : Kurt Weill and operatic reform in the 1920s / Bryan Gilliam -- Rethinking sound : music and radio in Weimar Germany / Christopher Hailey -- "Overcoming romanticism" : on the modernization of twentieth-century performance practice / Robert Hill -- Lehrstück : an aesthetics of performance / Stephen Hinton --Robinson -- The idea of Bewegung in the German organ reform movement of the 1920s / Peter Williams.…”

A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht / by Unwin, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 THE DARK TIMES; 2 BRECHT: PLAYWRIGHT, POET AND ARTIST; 3 POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND A NEW MORALITY; 4 ART AND CULTURE; 5 TOWARDS A MARXIST THEATRE; 6 KEY CONCEPTS OF BRECHA'S THEATRICAL THEORY; 7 STAGING BRECHT; 8 FOUR EARLY PLAYS; Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of the Cities; Man equals Man; 9 TWO MUSIC-THEATRE PIECES AND KURT WEILL; The Threepenny Opera; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; 10 MARXISM AND THE THEATRE; Saint Joan of the Stockyards; The Decision; The Mother; 11 OPPOSITION PLAYS; Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.…”
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The German cabaret legacy in American popular music / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Great American Cultural Invasion; 3. Kurt Weill and Die Dreigroschenoper; 4. Lotte Lenya, Future Tony Award Winner; 5. …”
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Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States /

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The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933 /

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