| Description |
xvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-291) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"This book examines 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 1930s."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Musicians -- California, Southern.
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California, Southern -- Emigration and immigration.
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Jewish refugees -- California, Southern.
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Jews, German -- California, Southern.
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Exiles -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780300127348 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0300127340 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780300171235 |
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0300171234 |
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