The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Foreword: What Composers on Screen Can Do for Us (Russell Jackson)
• Introduction (Paul Fryer)
• Composers on Screen and on Stage: A Comparison (Daniel ­Meyer-Dinkgräfe)
• Orpheus in the Movie World: Offenbach on Film (Laurence Senelick)
• Dance of the Seven Veils (Pierre Bellemare)
• Verdi: A Life in Three Movies (Paul Fryer)
• Sisters of Faith and Genius: Hildegard von Bingen and Nannerl Mozart
• (Carmen Gorgichuk)
• Le Roi danse (The King Dances) (Pierre Bellemare)
• Hagiography or Realism? Wagner ­Bio-Pics (F. Jane Schopf)
• Staging Gender and Genius in James Lapine’s Impromptu (Lindsay Brandon Hunter)
• Picturing the Cradle: Blitzstein as Memory, Blitzstein as Comedy (John Patrick Bray)
• Cole Porter’s Fabulous Film Lives: Night and Day and De-Lovely (Ellen M. Peck)
• La Symphonie fantastique (Pierre Bellemare)
• Robert Schumann: A Double Vision (John C. Tibbetts)
• All That Jazz: George Gershwin, American Mythology and Rhapsody in Blue (1945) (Samuel J. Umland)
• Elgar and Delius (Nesta Jones)
• Picturing the Composer (Gary Yershon)
• About the Contributors
• Index