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Review: Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World, by Howard Pollack

2016; University of California Press; Volume: 69; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jams.2016.69.3.835

1547-3848

Ellie M. Hisama,

Music History and Culture

Book Review| December 01 2016 Review: Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World, by Howard Pollack Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World, by Howard Pollack. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 618 pp. Ellie M. Hisama Ellie M. Hisama ELLIE M. HISAMA is Professor of Music at Columbia University. She is the author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Marion Bauer, Ruth Crawford, and Miriam Gideon (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and coeditor of Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music (University of Rochester Press, 2007). She has been Editor-in-Chief of Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture and was Founding Editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2016) 69 (3): 835–842. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.3.835 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ellie M. Hisama; Review: Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World, by Howard Pollack. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2016; 69 (3): 835–842. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.3.835 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Historian Eric A. Gordon, author of the first biography of Marc Blitzstein (1989),1 recalled his editor's remark that “[t]here will never be another biography of Blitzstein, so write what you feel needs to be there.”2 This advice led to a 605-page tome, a massive effort that brought much-needed recognition to a significant but neglected American composer who is perhaps still best known for three dramatic works: The Cradle Will Rock (1937), which has received renewed attention with numerous restagings over the last few decades and with the film Cradle Will Rock directed by Tim Robbins (1999); Regina (1949), based on Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and called by the New York Times “one of the best operas by an American” (quoted p. 469); and his brilliant adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (1954), warmly praised by Brecht, Lotte Lenya, Virgil Thomson, and Arthur Berger (pp.... You do not currently have access to this content.