Strangers in Strangers' Land: Werfel, Weill, and The Eternal Road

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS VII
4. PREFACE XI
5. PART ONE Introductory Thoughts
6. Reading a Letter 3
7. "We miss our Jews" The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany 21
8. PART TWO Experiences, Reports, and Reflections
9. My Vienna Triangle at Washington Square Revisited and Dilated 33
10. Displaced Musics and Immigrant Musicologists: Ethnomusicological and Biographical Perspectives 54
11. Music and Musicians in Exile: The Romantic Legacy of a Double Life 66
12. The Exile of European Music: Documentation of Upheaval and Immigration in the New York Times 92
13. PART THREE Acculturation and Identity
14. Composers in Exile: The Question of Musical Identity 155
15. Challenges and Opportunities of Acculturation: Schoenberg, Krenek, and Stravinsky in Exile 172
16. Reading Whitman/ Responding to America: Hindemith, Weill, and Others 194
17. PART FOUR Case Studies: Individuals, Places, and Institutions
18. A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Korngold's Double Exile in America 223
19. Strangers in Strangers' Land: Werfel, Weill, and The Eternal Road 243
20. Hindemith and Weill: Cases of "Inner" and "Other" Direction 261
21. Wolpe and Black Mountain College 279
22. From Jewish Exile in Germany to German Scholar in America: Alfred Einstein's Emigration 298
23. Immigrant Musicians and the American Chamber Music Scene, 1930—1950 322
24. APPENDIX Musicologists Who Emigrated from Germany, Austria, and Central Europe, ca. 1930-1945 341
25. INDEX 345