Number: Imprint: University of Rochester Press. Eliot is saying that all artists owe their successes to the artists who paved the way before them. This is a known truth.
Schmid loses the plot by following T. In it, Bloom says that poets must confront their precursors in a quasi-Oedipal struggle in order to create an imaginative space for themselves in the world.
There is no such thing as a quasi-Oedipal struggle. Oedipus infamously and unknowingly murdered his father and then married his mother.
Schmid traces the tutelage of Blitzstein to Bernstein and back to Weill through performance anecdotes, personal letters, and documentation by previous researchers. Chapters 2 β 7 categorically inspect the major works of each composer and the threads of invention and imagination woven between them.
Die Dreigroschen Opera and its significance to the opera, opera theatre, and musical theatre genres are highlighted. It will also benefit researchers and fans of Blitzstein and Bernstein. A thorough Index completes the publication. The book is full of diverting production history and insights into the lives and minds of the three composers and their close circles.
