Composers that did not make the top ten, yet were still programmed, include Wilson, Schonberg, Menken, Loesser, Kern, Flaherty, and
Blitzstein.
Blitzstein, "Recognizing and Treating Conversion Disorder," The virtual mentor, vol.
The Kurt Weill Fellowship is for early-career directors and choreographer to become familiar with the theatrical works of Weill or
Blitzstein by assisting a master director on one of their pieces.
This year two awards were given: Gabriel Alfieri (Boston University) will explore how four major composers, Virgil Thompson, Paul Bowles, Marc
Blitzstein, and Leonard Bernstein, worked with various playwrights and directors to compose incidental music for their spoken theater productions; Daniel Margolies (Virginia Wesleyan University) will focus his research on non-mariachi styles of Mexican-American fiddling in south Texas in the twentieth century.
Gabriel Alfieri will explore how four major composers--Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, Marc
Blitzstein, and Leonard Bernstein--worked with various playwrights and directors to compose incidental music for their spoken theater productions.
The Konzerhaus' top floor became an after-hours cabaret, with "Triple-Sec and Blue Monday," a double bill of two one-act operas by Marc
Blitzstein and George Gershwin, respectively, on March 14, 15, and 17.
Blitzstein and Hwang offer a textbook for a course introducing probability and developing a foundation for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty.
In July, Brock took on the 1937 Marc
Blitzstein musical The Cradle Will Rock for the new Encores!
District Judge Philip Pro to 7-1/2 years in prison for conspiring to extort longtime mob associate Herbert "Fat Herbie"
Blitzstein, who was slain in January 1997.
The four included: the Canadian premieres of Marc
Blitzstein's 1930 satirical The Harpies and American composer Steven Serpa's 2010 pastoral opera for countertenor and soprano, Thyrisis and Amaranth; the local premiere of the hilarious 1991 Canadian comic opera, Gisela in her Bathtub, by Neil Weisensel in its Nova Scotian premiere; and Ralph Vaughan Williams's moving 1937 tragedy, Riders to the Sea.
Blitzstein - United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964)