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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820177203321

Autore

Crawford Dorothy L

Titolo

A windfall of musicians : Hitler's emigres and exiles in southern California / / Dorothy Lamb Crawford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35185-0

9786612351853

0-300-15548-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

780.9794/9

Soggetti

Musicians - California, Southern

Jewish refugees - California, Southern

Jews, German - California, Southern

Exiles - United States

California, Southern Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Europe -- Paradise? -- Otto Klemperer and the Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Performers, and Klemperer's return -- Innovative teachers in the performing arts -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Ernst Toch -- European composers in the "picture business" -- Issues of identity: Ernst Krenek, Eric Zeisl, and Ingolf Dahl -- Stravinsky in Hollywood.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influence of sixteen performers, fourteen composers, and one opera stage director, who joined this immense migration beginning in the 1930's. Some in this group were famous when they fled Europe, others would gain recognition in the young musical culture of Los Angeles, and still others struggled to establish themselves in an environment often resistant to musical innovation. Emphasizing individual voices, Crawford presents short portraits of Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and the other musicians while also considering their influence as a group-in the film



industry, in music institutions in and around Los Angeles, and as teachers who trained the next generation. The book reveals a uniquely vibrant era when Southern California became a hub of unprecedented musical talent.