Personal Spin J

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Bryars
Keyword(s):  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Bill Evans ◽  
Gavin Bryars

Bill Evans Trio: My Foolish Heart Propellerheads: History Repeating The Carla Bley Band: The Lord Is Listenin’ To Ya, Hallelujah! Glenn Gould: The Idea of North from Solitude Trilogy Tom Waits: Tom Traubert’s Blues Richard Strauss: Traumlicht from Drei Männerchöre Richard Wagner: Parsifal Gavin Bryars Ensemble: ...

Singing Brecht vs. Brecht singing: Performance in theory and practice

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim H. Kowalke
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Singing Performance

During the last hour we spoke about the transformation of opera into music drama, and I explained the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. So that nobody has any excuses, I'll write on the blackboard once more the names ofRichard WagnerRichard StraussNow we come to a new chapter. You'll remember that I read to you from Wagner's texts. They always dealt with gods and heroes and curious concepts like forest murmur, magic fire, knights of the Grail, etc., which you found rather strange. Then there were some difficult thought processes, which you were unable to follow, and also certain things that you could not yet comprehend and are as yet none of your business. None of this was of much interest to you't want to go to sleep. You want to hear music you can comprehend without special explanation, music you can readily absorb and sing with relative ease. … Nowadays there are matters of greater interest to all, and if music cannot be placed in the service of society as a whole, it forfeits its right to exist in today's world.

Towards a History of Operatic Psychoanalysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Arnold Schoenberg ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Musical Drama ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
History Of ◽  
Kurt Weill ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the history of the trope of psychoanalytic therapy in musical dramas, from Richard Wagner to Kurt Weill, concluding that psychoanalysis and the musical drama are, in some ways, companions and take cues from each other, beginning in the mid-19th century. In Wagner's music dramas, psychoanalytic themes and situations – specifically concerning the meaning and analysis of dreams – are presaged. In early modernist music dramas by Richard Strauss and Arnold Schoenberg (contemporaries of Freud), tacit representations of the drama of hysteria, its aetiology and ‘treatment’ comprise key elements of the plot and resonate with dissonant musical soundscapes. By the middle of the 20th century, Kurt Weill places the relationship between analyst and patient in the foreground of his musical Lady in the Dark, thereby making manifest what is latent in a century-spanning chain of musical works whose meaning centres, in part, around representations of psychoanalysis.

Die deutsche monumentale Oper nach Wagner

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 363-372
Author(s):  
Helmut Loos
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
Anxiety States ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Further Development

Opera is an exceedingly multiform and multilayered genre which has in its disposition as Gesamtkunstwerk not only to meet the most varied artistic demands, but which because of the great spiritual and pecuniary expenditure necessary for its production, also takes a highly exposed position in the sociocultural environment of its birth and performance. As courtly opera it served the representation and increase of dynastic glory, in the guise of the German Singspiel it strengthened bourgeois self-esteem and as rescue opera it compensated collective anxiety states. The early romantic claim of music to be considered as Kunstreligion was transferred to opera by Richard Wagner who as Ludwig van Beethoven’s self-appointed heir catapulted himself in the position of a Führer of the bourgeois society with the aim to give through his works trend-setting impulses for its further development. His adaptations of German myths exerted a dominating influence and have found a diversified following. As componists of monumental operas are primarily to be named August Bungert, Felix von Weingartner, Felix Draeseke, Max von Schillings, Cyrill Kistner and last but not least Richard Strauss.

Richard Wagner

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Hueffer
Keyword(s):  
Richard Wagner

Humor in der Therapie. Lachend auf Distanz gehen, Ängste lachend besiegen

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-157
Author(s):  
Gudrun Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Sancho Panza

Zusammenfassung. Don Quijote und Sancho Panza, von Miguel de Cervantes Saavedras 1605/1612 geschaffene Romanhelden, erfreuen sich auch im Jahre 2003 eines großen Bekanntheitsgrades und sind als komisches Paar berühmt geworden. Beide verstricken sich in Abenteuer, die einzig ihrer Fantasie erwachsen. Im folgenden steht das Komische - aus nicht der Norm entsprechendem Verhalten oder aus wahnhaften Imaginationen erwachsend - in der literarischen Vorgabe wie auch in dem sinfonischen Tongedicht “Don Quixote“ von Richard Strauss im Mittelpunkt. Daran schließen sich Überlegungen zu einer tänzerischen Umsetzung im Rahmen eines therapeutischen Settings an. Es wird analysiert, wie sich Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeitszügen (resp. -störungen) darin wiederfinden können und wie die Charaktere von Don Quijote und Sancho Panza im Sinne einer eigenen Interpretation weiterentwickelt werden können. Aspekte der von Helmut Plessner vertretenen anthropologischen Betrachtungsweise des Lachens beleuchten die nur dem Menschen eigene Fähigkeit komisch zu sein und Komisches wahrzunehmen.

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