Weill, Blitzstein and Bernstein: A Study of Influence
University of Rochester Press/Boydell & Brewer
“In this meticulously researched study, Rebecca Schmid shows how Weill's impact on American musical theater manifested itself less in specific stylistic traits than in paradigmatic formal innovations. Drawing on various discourses about artistic influence and intertextuality, which in musicology have hitherto primarily been applied to Western classical music, she demonstrates in detail the ways in which Weill's example critically informed, in creative acts of ‘active reception,’ the work of Bernstein and Blitzstein (among others).”
Stephen Hinton,
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Stanford University
Related publications
“The Saga of Lenny,”
Cambridge Opera Journal, August 2023
“Bernstein and Weill,” in Leonard Bernstein: In Context
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)
“Street Scenes,” in The Works of Kurt Weill. Transformations and Reconfigurations … (Brepols, 2023)