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	The Operas of Marc Blitzstein - USOperaWeb Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Blitzstein wanted it to be like a Russian novel in which every character has his or her own anxieties and dreams and fears and wishes and loves.
		Blitzstein had passed part of the winter of 1936 with his sister Jo in Ventnor, New Jersey, where they had spent time with off-season workers who were trying to better their condition.
		Blitzstein and Diamond danced together at some of the local fl bars (where the patrons apparently were accepting of it), engaged in detailed, public conversations about their sexual exploits, and hugged and kissed openly in public.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2001/sept/blitzstein.htm (3199 words)

	Marc Blitzstein — www.greenwood.com
		Nephew of Marc Blitzstein: Leonard Lehrman's Marc Blitzstein bibliography is an accomplishment of extraordinary scope and depth.
		Description: Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having virtually invented opera in the American vernacular.
		Blitzstein's brilliant career was cut short in 1964 when he died at the age of 58.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR0027.aspx (532 words)

	The Marc Blitzstein Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An hour late, Blitzstein began, fully prepared to sing the entire score at the piano himself, if necessary; for it was considered a breach of union contract for the actors to appear on any other than the federal stage.
		Blitzstein saw Bizet's Carmen as an inspiration, for it, too, with its spoken passages, is in the opera comique tradition, and similarly seems to emerge out of a bouquet of dance forms.
		It was an immeasurable loss to American music, for though Blitzstein had long since become a secondary figure with a string of failures trailing his name, he represented the vanguard of the theater and music world's social conscience.
	www.marcblitzstein.com /pages/biblio/articles/regina.htm (2278 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Blitzstein, Marc
		Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2, 1905 into an affluent Jewish banking family.
		Blitzstein thus began to embrace the philosophy of "music for the people," the immediate result of which was the opera The Cradle Will Rock (1936), a politically charged work about labor unionism.
		Although interest in Blitzstein and his work declined in the 1960s and 1970s, more recently he has come to be recognized as a significant figure in the history of American musical theater.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/blitzstein_m.html (766 words)

	Marc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marc is a western European forename, a variation on the Roman name Marcus (see ‎List of names derived from Marcus).
		Marc Cécillon, former captain of the French rugby union team and convicted murderer.
		Marc Rich, Swiss-based Spanish billionaire who fled the United States in 1983 to live in Switzerland in order to avoid prosecution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marc (241 words)

	village voice > theater > Marc Blitzstein's Regina by Michael Feingold
		Marc Blitzstein (1905—1964) is one of the more improbable stories among Broadway's composer-lyricists.
		Understandably, part of the fascination of Blitzstein's scores is that there is always an element of struggle about them, something that is slightly "off" about either the words or the music, as if his ability to hit the target dead-on were affected by an uncertainty about whether it was worth hitting at all.
		Blitzstein may not be able to make all these disparate elements fit comfortably in one work, but he handles each of them, individually, with extraordinary subtlety and theatrical acumen.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0532,feingold,66699,11.html (1009 words)

	Amazon.fr : Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein: Livres en anglais: Eric A. Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In his own compositions, not well received in their own time and not often performed today, Blitzstein expressed his preoccupation with the political and social issues of his day.
		Gordon gives exhaustive synopses of the plots of Blitzstein's operas and theater pieces and discusses his life at length, especially his personal relationships and his homosexuality.
		Blitzstein has suffered years of unjust neglect, but lately his star has been on the ascendant, and this excellent biography will further boost his reputation.
	www.amazon.fr /Mark-Music-Life-Work-Blitzstein/dp/0312026072 (412 words)

	USOperaWeb Feature - Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Blitzstein and his producers; but it is not profitable to his reputation as a serious composer." In short, be declared with some petulance, Regina is not "much of a contribution to the growth of American opera."
		Blitzstein eschewed the spirit of twenties and thirties Zeitoper, the Kleinkunst revue, the agitprop vehicle.
		Blitzstein or his agents dutifully sent copies of the score and the libretto to producers and theatrical intendants, the accompanying letters full of thoughts about translations into German or Italian, but of all these nibbles nothing came to pass.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2002/jan/markmusic.htm (7992 words)

	Classical Net Review - Blitzstein - Symphony: "The Airborne"
		His oeuvre has been undergoing a reevaluation in the past few years, and I believe that this is the first appearance on CD of one of his most "popular" works, in the most literal sense of the word.
		Blitzstein started writing "The Airborne" in the early 40s when he was a US Air Force corporal stationed in London.
		The score was lost when Blitzstein was transferred back to the States, and the composer let the project drop until the young Leonard Bernstein expressed interest in performing the work with the New York Symphony Orchestra.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/r/rca62568a.html (531 words)

	Marc Blitzstein - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Marc Blitzstein - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Blitzstein, Marc (1905-1964), American composer, known for his works expressing concern over the social injustices of his time.
		Marc, Franz (1880-1916), German painter, who was one of the leading members of the expressionist Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group.
	encarta.msn.com /Marc_Blitzstein.html (89 words)

	Playbill Features: ON THE RECORD: Gypsy, Brownstone and Marc Blitzstein
		Marc Blitzstein is an all-but-forgotten name on the list of important Broadway composers.
		Blitzstein's marvelous title image transformed the 25 year old "Moritat" of Weill and Brecht into an international standard.
		Blitzstein's adaptation of The Threepenny Opera is not included in the Blitzstein songbooks, although they are happily available elsewhere.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/81495.html (3084 words)

	Marc Blitzstein
		Blitzstein's father was a banker and a socialist of the old school, of whom his son once wrote that he was "as modern in social thinking as he was conservative in musical taste".
		Marc's own political conversion and its creative expression came late, after the advent of the New Deal.
		The Cradle Will Rock, which its author, Marc Blitzstein, described as "a play with music" (while others, at various times, called it an opera, a labour opera, a social cartoon, a marching song and a propagandistic tour de force), had been written at white heat one year earlier - in the spring of 1936.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAblitzstein.htm (675 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Marc Blitzstein Centenary Celebration - Songs from
		Marc Blitzstein's best known composition is his 1936 music drama The Cradle Will Rock, set in steeltown, USA, with a cast of characters consisting of "types" rather than individuals, and with suitable names to match, such as Larry Foreman, Dauber the painter, and Mister Mister, the owner of the steel mill.
		The words as well as the music were created by Blitzstein.
		We open our program with Blitzstein's most famous song, Nickel Under the Foot, for which the audience will need to know that the terms "put and take" refer to a form of high-risk gambling on the stock market.
	www.archive.org /details/OM11BlitzsteinSongs (287 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Marc Blitzstein Centenary Celebration - "Piano Percussion Music" performed at Other Minds ...
		Piano Percussion Music is a grandly scaled work that is a neglected and unpublished masterpiece of the late '20s.
		The air differs greatly, a noble, Purcellian confection with trills and sixteenth-note ornamentation, its meter switching between 4/4 and 5/4." In the final movement the pianist is called on to slam the keyboard cover four times.
		The idea was sugggested by a work of Stefan Wolpe's that Blitzstein heard in Berlin with, as he wrote, the "very last note being the closing of the piano, as though putting the final stamp on all piano music to come."
	www.archive.org /details/OM11BlitzsteinPianoPercussion (206 words)

	JBQ48136JH - The Marc Blitzstein Songbook - Volume 3 - Voice and Piano
		Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) was a true American original, creating compositions that straddled musical styles between traditional classical and theatre, blending social commentary and political satire with charm, simplicity and humor.
		Interest in Blitzstein has been revived following the release of a new disc by Dawn Upshaw and a Hollywood film directed by Tim Robbins called The Cradle Will Rock.
		1 (48008512/$39.95) and The Marc Blitzstein Songbook Vol.
	www.encoremusic.com /JBQ48136.html (355 words)

	Marc Blitzstein (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marc Blitzstein sat down at the piano and played, sang and acted with the hard, hypnotic drive which came to be familiar to audiences, his new opera.
		Blitzstein looks like a mild little man as he sits before his piano, his work generates current like a dynamo.
		He can write anything from tribal chant to tin pan alley balladry, and when he settles down to serious business at its conclusion, his music-box roars with rage and his actors frighten the aged roof of the miniature Mercury Theatre.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /USAblitzstein.htm (675 words)

	Nextbook: A Man Possessed
		But when Lehrman was a music student at Harvard, the Blitzstein estate was looking for someone to finish an opera called "Idiots First," based on a story by Bernard Malamud.
		He's been channeling Marc Blitzstein ever since: completing unfinished works, putting on a traveling Blitzstein cabaret, and coming out recently with the 650-page Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography.
		The recording of Marc Blitzstein singing his own song, "The Nickel Under the Foot," probably in 1938, is taken from and available on Original Cast compact disc OC 6127, The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD, orderable at http://www.originalcastrecords.com/details.tpl?sku=741117613522
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=335 (584 words)

	Marc Blitzstein from Books.co.uk
		Delivery prices - shown in this table - are for the cost of a domestic delivery, as given by the company.
		Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having virtually invented opera in the American vernacular.
		The book provides a unique and full perspective on the works of one of America's greatest composers - one who deserves to be better known.
	www.books.co.uk /marc_blitzstein/0313300275.html (117 words)

	Marc Blitzstein - AOL Music
		R.J. Dietz, Marc Blitzstein and the "Agit-prop" Theatre of the 1930s...
		On September 30, 2005, Praeger published the long-awaited Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography, by Leonard Lehrman, at 645 pages, the longest published...
		Download, listen and watch Marc Blitzstein music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/marc-blitzstein/921/main (112 words)

	BLITZSTEIN, Marc :Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary of composers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		BLITZSTEIN, Marc :Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary of composers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)
		He began to study music at the age of three, made his first public appearance as a pianist at the age of five and began composing aged seven.
		Blitzstein also wrote incidental music to plays of Shakespeare, Shaw and Hellman; film scores; other choral and vocal works; two string quartets and works for piano.
	www.musicweb-international.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Classpedia/Blitzstein.htm (161 words)

	Amazon.ca: Marc Blitzstein: Music: Marc Blitzstein,Leonard Bernstein,New York City Symphony Orchestra,Abner ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		~ Marc Blitzstein (Composer, Performer), Leonard Bernstein (Conductor), New York City Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Abner Dorsey (Performer), Howard da Silva (Performer)
		Performer: Marc Blitzstein, Abner Dorsey, Howard da Silva
		with Marc Blitzstein, Marc Blitzstein, Abner Dorsey, Howard da Silva
	www.amazon.ca /Marc-Blitzstein-Leonard-Bernstein/dp/B000009QC2 (1439 words)

	Marc Blitzstein - Classical music composer
		The Marc Blitzstein Songbook - Volume 1 By Marc Blitzstein.
		The Marc Blitzstein Songbook - Volume 2 By Marc Blitzstein.
		The Marc Blitzstein Songbook - Volume 3 By Marc Blitzstein.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/blitzstein (603 words)

	MUSICMATCH Guide: Marc Blitzstein
		In the first half of the twentieth century, no one successfully fused classical and popular music styles or convincingly fit American vernacular speech to music as well as composer-pianist Marc Blitzstein.
		Blitzstein composed primarily for the musical stage, using his own librettos, though he also wrote non-dramatic vocal and instrumental music as well...
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	www.mmguide.musicmatch.com /artist/artist.cgi?ARTISTID=1088201 (224 words)

	Marc Blitzstein
		Let's take a break from all this operatic traveling to consider the role of religious music in modern American opera, particularly those set in the South.
		There’s the old saying: in the East, people ask what you do; in the West, what you earn; in the South, who your family is. See what happens when three Southern women feel compelled to break away from their traditional roles as good mother, daughter, or wife...
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	www.suite101.com /reference/marc_blitzstein (105 words)

	Footlight.com > The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD
		Footlight.com > The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD Home > The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD
		Recorded Live in concert at the People's Voice Cafe, NYC, in celebration of the centennial of the birth of Marc Blitzstein.
		Marc Blitzstein sings "The Nickel Under The Foot"
	www.footlight.com /product.cfm?product_id=33133 (198 words)

	Marc Blitzstein: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marc Blitzstein: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
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	www.music.com /person/marc_blitzstein/1 (222 words)

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