Kurt Weill a Handbook by David Drew : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

Format: Hardcover

Author: David Drew

ISBN: 9780571135738

Condition: Used - Very Good


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About the book >.>.> Whether we are accustomed to mentioning Weill in the same breath as Hindemith or as Holl�nder, as Copland or as Cole Porter; whether we see him as an outstanding German composer who somehow lost his voice when he settled in America, or as an outstanding Broadway composer yho somehow contrived to write a hit-show called The Threepenny Opera during his otherwise obscure and probably misspent Berlin youth; whether we disagree with both these views and either find evidence of a strikingly original mind at all stages in his career (but at some more than others), or dismiss him as nothing but a gifted amanuensis of Bertolt Brecht; whether we think of him as a 'product of his times' who had his one lucky strike with Die Dreigroschemoper and apart from that can safely be forgotten, or whether we believe him to be the creator of a substantial and durable body of work spanning twenty (or even thirty) years; whether we consider him incompetent to write anything but theatre music, or whether we number several of his non theatrical pieces and at least one of his orchestral works among his finest achievements; in short, whether we feel him to be important or negligible, whether we love his music or detest it, admire or despise it we may rest assured that we are by no means alone, and that we will not need to look far for some eminent authority who shares our views.