Vortrag von Rebecca Schmid

This lecture, based on the book Weill, Blitzstein and Bernstein: A Study of Influence, explores the aesthetic impact of Kurt Weill on stage works by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein. Taking examples from the second and fifth chapters, the author will reveal how Weill’s formal experiments in both Germany and the United States paved the way for these composers as they forged an indigenous movement in sophisticated, socially engaged music theatre. The lecture will also engage with the principles of Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence and other modes of intertextuality that provide the basis for Weill, Blitzstein and Bernstein.

Vortrag/Buchpräsentation mit Musik:
Kurt Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper, No. 6 “Seeräuberjenny”
Marc Blitzstein: The Cradle Will Rock, Sc. 7 “Nickel under the Foot”
Johanna Stacher (Gesang), Chanda VanderHart (Klavier)

Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Wien, Raum A 0201

Die Veranstaltungsreihe »Music, Culture & Politics in Central Europe. Historical Perspectives« versteht sich als Forum für aktuelle Forschungen zum Musikleben in dieser geografisch und politisch, aber auch kulturell und sozial hybriden Region.

Organisation: Fritz Trümpi