Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States
Reinhold Brinkmann (Editor), Christoph Wolff (Editor)
"The Forced Migration of artists and scholars from Nazi German is a compelling and often wrenching story. The story is twofold - of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this collection, which approaches the subject from diverse perspectives, including documentary-style newspaper accounts and an exploration of Walt Whitman's poetry in the work of Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999
Biography
xiii, 373 pages : music ; 24 cm
9780520214132, 0520214137
39354284
Preface / Christoph Wolff
Reading a letter / Reinhold Brinkmann
"We miss our Jews": the musical migration from Nazi Germany / Peter Gay
My Vienna triangle at Washington Square revisited and dilated / Milton Babbitt
Displaced musics and immigrant musicologists: ethnomusicological and biographical perspectives / Bruno Nettl
Music and musicians in exile: the romantic legacy of a double life / Lydia Goehr
The exile of European music: documentation of upheaval and immigration in the New York Times / David Josephson
Composers in exile: the question of musical identity / Hermann Danuser
Challenges and opportunities of acculturation: Schoenberg, Krenek, and Stravinsky in exile / Claudia Maurer Zenck
Reading Whitman/responding to America: Hindemith, Weill, and others / Kim H. Kowalke
A Viennese opera composer in Hollywood: Korngold's double exile in America / Bryan Gilliam
Strangers in strangers' land: Werfel, Weill, and the Eternal road / Alexander L. Ringer
Hindemith and Weill: cases of "inner" and "other" direction / Stephen Hinton
Wolpe and Black Mountain college / Anne C. Shreffler
From Jewish exile in Germany to German scholar in America: Alfred Einsteins's emigration / Pamela M. Potter
Immigrant musicians and the American chamber music scene, 1930-1950 / Walter Levin
Appendix: Musicologists who emigrated from Germany, Austria, and central Europe, ca. 1930-1945
נושא ישן: National socialism and music
נושא ישן: Musicians - 20th century - biographies, criticism
נושא ישן: Music - United States - 20th century - history and criticism