Helen Smith

There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leonard Bernstein was the quintessential American musician. Through his careers as conductor, pianist, teacher and television personality he became known across the US and the world, his flamboyance and theatricality making him a favourite with audiences, if not with critics. However, he is perhaps best remembered as a composer, particularly of the musical West Side Story, and for songs such as 'America', 'Tonight' and 'Somewhere'. Dr Helen Smith takes an in-depth look at all eight of Bernstein's musical theatre works, from the early On the Town written by the 26-year-old composer at the start of his career, to his second and last opera A Quiet Place in 1983; in between these two pieces he composed music for Trouble in Tahiti, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. These works are analysed and considered against a background of musical and social context, as well as looking at Bernstein's other orchestral, choral and chamber works. One important aspect examined is Bernstein's use of motifs in his theatre compositions, which takes them out of the realms of Broadway and into the sphere of symphonic writing. Smith provides an indispensable overview of the musical theatre works of an eclectic composer, and shows what it is that constitutes the Bernstein 'sound'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351539227
• Artikelnr.: 49043847

Autorenporträt

Helen Smith studied conducting at Birmingham Conservatoire after receiving her PhD from the University of Birmingham. She is musical director for several choirs in the West Midlands and works with children and young people as a vocal animateur. As a musicologist, Helen specializes in the works of Leonard Bernstein and in American music.

Inhaltsangabe

1: In Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself From the Spirits By Portraying Them
2: Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds
3: Spacing Out
4: The Golden Bough: The Magic of Mimesis
5: The Golden Army: The Organization of Mimesis
6: With the Wind of World History in Our Sails
7: Spirit of the Mime, Spirit of the Gift
8: Mimetic Worlds, Invisible Counterparts
9: The Origin Of the World
10: Alterity
11: The Color of Alterity
12: The Search for the White Indian
13: America As Woman: The Magic of Western Gear
14: The Talking Machine
15: His Master's Voice
16: Reflection
17: Sympathetic Magic in a Post-Colonial Age