Too American for Europeans, too German for Broadway?
Too avant-garde for the
musical
, but too popular for the opera?
Well versed in theater and great form but above all brilliant as a creator of “hits”…?
So many received ideas about the composer Kurt Weill that the musicologist Pascal Huynh endeavors to dismantle through a fascinating work, published on February 11 by the Editions of the Philharmonie de Paris:
Kurt Weill, from Berlin to Broadway
.
This anthology of texts, articles, interviews, correspondence, critical or biographical essays, written by the musician, is surprisingly rich and varied.
Weill, born 120 years ago on March 2, talks about the role of radio as well as of social opera, pedagogy and musical education, even the sound virtues of a boxing match broadcast on the airwaves. !
Above all, it shows how
topical
the thought of the father of
L'Opéra de quat'sous
is.
From 1928, he will have these words addressed to students in a college class, who
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