Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts - Softcover

Horowitz, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060748508 ISBN 13: 9780060748500

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2009

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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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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0060748508
• ISBN 13: 9780060748500
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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