e-Book Street Scene: Vocal Score download

by Elmer Rice (Author), Langston Hughes (Author), Kurt Weill (Composer) & 0 more. Street Scene is a wonderful show! Kurt Weill wrote a fantastic score to one of Elmer Rice's most famous works!

by Elmer Rice (Author), Langston Hughes (Author), Kurt Weill (Composer) & 0 more. Street Scene is a wonderful show! Kurt Weill wrote a fantastic score to one of Elmer Rice's most famous works! There is some wonderful music in this score for each voice type: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass. Most of the repertoire is in more of an operatic style but some of the music is more similar to musical theater.

Street Scene is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). Written in 1946 and premiered in Philadelphia that year, Street Scene is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Rice. It was Weill who referred to the piece as an "American opera", intending it as a groundbreaking synthesis of European traditional opera and American musical theater.

Elmer Rice, Langston Hughes, Kurt Weill (Composer). Published by Chappell (1981). ISBN 10: 0881880523 ISBN 13: 9780881880526.

Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Physical Address: 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005. Mailing Address: MS-44, . BOX 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892.

Kurt Weill in America is a studio recording re-creating a concert of the same name staged as part of the "Lyrics and Lyricists" series at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan; the artistic director of the show was nightclub singer Andrea Marcovicci, and the album is released by her Andreasong.

Kurt Weill in America is a studio recording re-creating a concert of the same name staged as part of the "Lyrics and Lyricists" series at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan; the artistic director of the show was nightclub singer Andrea Marcovicci, and the album is released by her Andreasong record label. Of course, Kurt Weill was a composer, not a lyricist, but during the 14-plus years he lived in the .

The theatre music season continues with a recent recording of Kurt Weill's 'Broadway Opera' Street Scene which tells a gritty story of life, love, birth and death in a squalid 1940s Manhattan tenement. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

saveSave Street Scene. An American Opera (BASED ON ELMER RICE'S PLAY) NE Music by KURT WEILL Book by ELMER RICE Lyrics by LANGSTON HUGHES CHAPPELL & C. INC. RKO Bunpine Roc ‘New York, To the Memory of My Brother Hans Weill 4 ‘The action cakes place on a sidewall in New York City ACT I ‘An evening in June ACT TL Scunz 1: The following morning. Scene 2: Afternoon of the same day. Onbuatone 4 Fa, 1 Oboe 4 Caries, 1 Ba Casi 1 Basan, 2 Hors, 2Trasets,2 Trombones, Hap, Fano, Peron. Swiags (It and 2ad Vien, Viola, Viblosello, Bas).

1947 – Street Scene (Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes) - Tony Award for Best Original Score. 1948 – Love Life (Alan Jay Lerner).

Weill was active in political movements encouraging American entry into World War II, and after America joined the war in 1941, Weill enthusiastically collaborated in numerous artistic projects supporting the war effort both abroad and on the home front. He and Maxwell Anderson also joined the volunteer civil service by working as air raid wardens on High Tor Mountain between their home in New City and Haverstraw, New York in Rockland County. 1947 – Street Scene (Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes) - Tony Award for Best Original Score.

Street Scene Piano, Voice Chappell. Weill Kurt - Centennial Anthology Vol2 - Pvg Piano, Vocal and Guitar Alfred Publishing. Volume 2 of this great 2-volume centennial tribute to one of the greatest composers of the 20th Century.