The Inner Sky: The Dynamic New Astrology for Everyone by Steven Forrest

The Inner Sky: The Dynamic New Astrology for Everyone



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The Inner Sky: The Dynamic New Astrology for Everyone Steven Forrest
Language: English
Page: 0
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0553243519, 9780553243512
Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm)

From Library Journal

With this volume, Kater has completed a remarkable trilogy of books about music during the Nazi era. This final book, the logical successor to The Twisted Muse (LJ 1/97), focuses on the works and activities of eight German/Austrian composersAEgk, Hindemith, Weill, Hartmann, Orff, Pfitzner, Schoenberg, and StraussAand their relationships to the people and politics of the Third Reich. Each is given his own chapter, with a telling subtitle (e.g., "Werner Egk: The Enigmatic Opportunist") that summarizes Kater's view of the composer's degree of complicity, acquiescence, or, all too rarely, principled opposition to the Nazi regime. Complexities and contradictions abound, but overall the reputations of Egk, Hindemith, Orff, and the odious Pfitzner suffer, while that of Richard Strauss, perhaps surprisingly, is somewhat restored. Secondary players, such as Thomas Mann, Wilhelm Furtw?ngler, and Joseph Goebbels, make frequent appearances; indeed, the entire socio-politico-musical landscape of post-Weimar Germany is as thoroughly and engagingly chronicled as the achievements of the individual composers. Kater, as usual, is rigorous in his attention to detail; his research is up-to-date, and his conclusions are persuasive. This bookAindeed, the entire trilogyAshould be a part of every collection.ALarry Lipkis, Moravian Coll., Bethlehem, PA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


"With this volume, Kater has completed a remarkable trilogy of books about music during the Nazi era....Kater...is rigorous in his attention to detail; his research is up-to-date, and his conclusions are persuasive. This book--indead, the entire trilogy--should be a part of every collection."--Library Journal


"Michael Kater's new book, the third and best of his studies of German music during the Third Reich, examines the fortunes, in the Nazi and first postwar years, of eight composers: Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Carl Amadeus Hartmann, Carl Orff, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. Based upon a staggering amount of original research, it is endlessly informative." --Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University


"Congratulations to Michael Kater for resisting the usual black-or-white temptation and casting his portraits in a wide, and therefore illuminating, spectrum of greys." --Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley


"A judicious, exceptionally informative study of eight composers, who were victims, accomplices, and sometimes both, of the Third Reich." --Peter Paret, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton


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