The Days Grow Short: The Life And Music Of Kurt Weill
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From the cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the bright lights of Broadway, The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill chronicles the extraordinary journey of one of the twentieth century's most innovative composers — a man who fled Nazi persecution to reinvent himself entirely on foreign soil. Ronald Sanders presents a richly detailed portrait of Kurt Weill, tracing his artistic evolution from his early collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, which produced the landmark Threepenny Opera, through his remarkable transformation into a celebrated figure of the American musical theatre. Sanders captures the turbulence of an era as vividly as the music itself, illustrating how Weill's unique ability to fuse European modernism with popular accessibility made him both a provocateur and a populist. This biography stands as a landmark work in music history, arguing convincingly that Weill's stylistic versatility — so often misunderstood by critics who saw it as inconsistency — was in fact the mark of a restless, visionary genius. Sanders writes with the fluency of a scholar and the passion of an advocate, grounding each chapter in meticulous historical and cultural context while never losing sight of the human drama at the story's core. For anyone who has ever heard the haunting melody of Mack the Knife and wondered about the mind behind it, this definitive account promises to be a revelation.
Author: Ronald Sanders
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From the cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the bright lights of Broadway, The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill chronicles the extraordinary journey of one of the twentieth century's most innovative composers — a man who fled Nazi persecution to reinvent himself entirely on foreign soil. Ronald Sanders presents a richly detailed portrait of Kurt Weill, tracing his artistic evolution from his early collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, which produced the landmark Threepenny Opera, through his remarkable transformation into a celebrated figure of the American musical theatre. Sanders captures the turbulence of an era as vividly as the music itself, illustrating how Weill's unique ability to fuse European modernism with popular accessibility made him both a provocateur and a populist. This biography stands as a landmark work in music history, arguing convincingly that Weill's stylistic versatility — so often misunderstood by critics who saw it as inconsistency — was in fact the mark of a restless, visionary genius. Sanders writes with the fluency of a scholar and the passion of an advocate, grounding each chapter in meticulous historical and cultural context while never losing sight of the human drama at the story's core. For anyone who has ever heard the haunting melody of Mack the Knife and wondered about the mind behind it, this definitive account promises to be a revelation.