Marc Blitzstein papers, 1918-2004 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Personal and professional papers of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964), a composer, lyricist, and librettist, best known for his concern with making his work socially as well as artistically significant. The collection documents the creative process of composition and of Blitzstein's efforts to reconcile the political, psychological, and musical aspects of composition. Blitzstein was most famous for: his operas The Cradle Will Rock (1937), Regina (1949), Reuben, Reuben (1955), and Juno (1959); his motion picture score for Native Land (Frontier Films, 1942); The Airborne Symphony (1946); and his adaptation of The Threepenny Opera (1954)