Artists in exile : how refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts /: how refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts. (©2008)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Artists in exile : how refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts /: how refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts. (©2008)
- Main Title:
- Artists in exile : how refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts
- Further Information:
- Note: Joseph Horowitz.
- Other Names:
- Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-
- Contents:
- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction : cultural exchange -- Dvořák and the New World -- The intellectual migration -- The American performing arts in 1900 -- 1. How to become an American : a fortuitous partnership of dance and music -- St. Petersburg and Sergey Diaghilev educate Georgi Balanchivadze -- Balanchine invents an American ballet -- Igor Stravinsky eyes America -- The Balanchine/Stravinsky synthesis -- Returning to Russia -- 2. The German colonization of American classical music -- Rudolf Serkin, Adolf Busch, and the Berlinerisch spirit -- The German-American juggernaut -- Strangers in America : Otto Klemperer and Dimitri Mitropoulos -- Composers on the sidelines : Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Béla Bartók -- Erich Korngold wows Hollywood -- Kurt Weill tackles Broadway -- 3. The musical "margin of the ungerman" -- Edgard Varèse and the sirens of Manhattan -- Leopold Stokowski invents himself -- Serge Koussevitzky in search of the great American symphony -- Arturo Toscanini and the culture of performance -- 4. "In Hollywood we speak German" -- Marlene Dietrich and The blue angel -- The new German cinema relocates to California -- Fox's "German genius" : F.W. Murnau -- The Lubitsch touch -- Garbo laughs -- Fritz Lang's American exile -- Four who came and went : Victor Sjöstrom, René Clair, Jean Renoir, Max Ophuls -- Inside operator : Billy Wilder -- Salka Viertel's salon and the blacklist -- 5. Delayed reaction : Stanislavsky, total theater, andList of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction : cultural exchange -- Dvořák and the New World -- The intellectual migration -- The American performing arts in 1900 -- 1. How to become an American : a fortuitous partnership of dance and music -- St. Petersburg and Sergey Diaghilev educate Georgi Balanchivadze -- Balanchine invents an American ballet -- Igor Stravinsky eyes America -- The Balanchine/Stravinsky synthesis -- Returning to Russia -- 2. The German colonization of American classical music -- Rudolf Serkin, Adolf Busch, and the Berlinerisch spirit -- The German-American juggernaut -- Strangers in America : Otto Klemperer and Dimitri Mitropoulos -- Composers on the sidelines : Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Béla Bartók -- Erich Korngold wows Hollywood -- Kurt Weill tackles Broadway -- 3. The musical "margin of the ungerman" -- Edgard Varèse and the sirens of Manhattan -- Leopold Stokowski invents himself -- Serge Koussevitzky in search of the great American symphony -- Arturo Toscanini and the culture of performance -- 4. "In Hollywood we speak German" -- Marlene Dietrich and The blue angel -- The new German cinema relocates to California -- Fox's "German genius" : F.W. Murnau -- The Lubitsch touch -- Garbo laughs -- Fritz Lang's American exile -- Four who came and went : Victor Sjöstrom, René Clair, Jean Renoir, Max Ophuls -- Inside operator : Billy Wilder -- Salka Viertel's salon and the blacklist -- 5. Delayed reaction : Stanislavsky, total theater, and Broadway -- Max Reinhardt : an unattainable opportunity -- Bertolt Brecht and HUAC -- Alla Nazimova inhabits Hedda Gabler -- The Stanislavsky influence -- Rouben Mamoulian's choreographic touch -- Boris Aronson and the Meyerhold ideal -- Immigrants and American musical theater -- Conclusion -- Summarizing cultural exchange : Thomas Mann and Vladimir Nabokov -- Postscript : the Cold War -- Cultural exchange and the twenty-first century -- Notes -- Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Copyright Date:
- 2008
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xix, 458 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 791.086/9140973
History -- World
Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Europeans -- United States
Refugees -- United States
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
Europeans
Performing arts
Refugees
Uitvoerende kunsten
Europeanen
Vluchtelingen
Exil
Künstler
Performing Arts -- General
United States
Verenigde Staten
USA
Europa
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780061971303
0061971308 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780060748463
006074846X
9780060748500
0060748508 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-440) and index.
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