Decades of war and revolution in Europe forced an "intellectual migration" during the last century, relocating thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States. For many of Europe's premier performing artists, America proved to be a destination both strange and opportune.
Featuring the stories of George Balanchine, Kurt Weill, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and many others, Artists in Exile explores the impact that these famous newcomers had on American culture, and that America had on them.
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Widely regarded as the leading historian of American symphonic culture, Joseph Horowitz, 59, is previously the author of seven books dealing with classical music in the US. He serves as Artistic Advisor to various American orchestras and is also co-founder and Artistic Director of Post-Classical Ensemble of Washington, DC. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellow, two NEH Fellowships, a Senior Fellowship from Columbia University, and a certificate of commendation from the Czech Parliament (for various Dvorak festivals he has created in the US). Artists in Exile has been designated by the National Endowment for the Humanities a “We the Peopl
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Softcover. Condición: Fine. The book explores the impact of decades of war and revolution in Europe that led to a significant "intellectual migration" of artists and thinkers to the United States. It highlights the experiences of premier European performing artists who found America to be a unique yet promising new home, navigating the challenges and opportunities that arose in this unfamiliar landscape. Nº de ref. del artículo: 90565c0a-37fc-4e68-b73d-4a88edf0b90b
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20.0 x 13.0cms 458pp b/w illusts very good paperback & cover The chapters are: cultural exchange (c 1900); how to become an American a fortuitous partnership of dance & music (Diaghilev Balanchine Stravinsky): the german colonisation of American classical music (Otto Klemperer Schoenberg Hindemith Bartok Korngold & Kurt Weill); teh musical 'margin of the unGerman' (Stokowski Koussevitzky Toscanini): 'in Hollywood we speak German' ( (Dietrich Murnau Fritz KLang Rene Clair Jean Renoir Max Orphuls Billy Wilder etc): delayed reaction Stansilavsky total theatre & Broadway (Max Reinhardt Brecht Mamoulian Aronson Meyerhold etc); summarising cultural exchange. Nº de ref. del artículo: 30104013
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