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... outcomes of the positive judgment of the Marx Brothers' films in Adorno and Cavell, one can find the decisive bifurcation that separates their thoughts on film. The tension between opera and film as screened in Marx Brothers at the Opera becomes the touchstone for the differences in value judgment. While...

... discussion of the liturgical gesture of the Jewish holiday. It suggests that Rosenzweig models this most significant moment as a form of “sacred theater” depicting the Wagnerian “music opera.” Through this analysis, not only does “drama” emerge as the link between the three sections of Der Stern...

... the first two acts of the opera Moses und Aron , and he worked on the third act during his time in Los Angeles. For both men, the Second Commandment, against idolatry (the Bilderverbot ), played an important role. Theodor W. Adorno believed that the prohibition against images was the key to understanding...

... amount of time required to sit through one of his works. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 opera Richard Wagner humor culture industry satire critique References Adorno Theodor W. 1929 . “Berliner Opernmemorial.” In Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann...

... Musical Culture, 1850–1910.” PhD diss. , Brown University . Gilman Sander L. 1988 . “Strauss, the Pervert, and the Avant Garde Opera of the Fin de Siècle.” New German Critique , no. 2 : 35 – 68 . Göhler Georg . 1907 . “Richard Strauss.” Die Zukunft 15 , no. 2 : 98 – 112...

...- ings, almost all of them written after 1989, that images not only illustrate but facilitate the very act of remembering. Another case in point is “Opernprojekt in Anlehnung an die Seidenstraße” (“Opera Project in Imitation of the Silk Road”) from Verwilderte Selbstbehauptung (Self-Assertion...

... by aesthetic experience, specifically of Wagne- rian opera, in the identity formation of the young Hitler—to suggest a larger question: to what extent should we think of the Hitler movement as a con- tinuation, to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, of aesthetics by other means? Many issues with far...

... in Musica Ficta. Lacoue- Labarthe follows Adorno’s reading of Schoenberg’s opera Moses and Aaron in its minute detail, agrees with it for most of the time, but comes to a dis- agreement only in reference to the localization of the caesura in Schoen- berg’s unfinished opera. Like Lacoue-Labarthe, Adorno...

... theory? More important, does Beethoven's music have anything to say about it? © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 speed volume radio symphony References Abbate Carolyn . 2001 . In Search of Opera . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Adorno Theodor W...

... operas as well, especially in the satisfaction that protagonists such as Wotan and Loge derive from their ridicule of the powerless. In the anti-Semitic caricatures—Mime, Alberich, and Beckmesser—laughter at their weakness and debasement serves as a vehicle for cruelty. But behind...

...” to be manifest in a building that should showcase the “high level of artistic and cultural preservation in the first German state of workers and farmers.” 23 On Augustus Square, the Gewandhaus joined other, newly erected buildings—for example, the opera (1960) and the thirty-four-story university high...

... historical precursors, there are among modern composers, with the exception of Gioachino Rossini in the world of opera, few parallels with the Mahler revival. The history of Mahler reception is marred by a willful erasure from the repertoire coincident with the period of National Socialism in German...

... for the Humanities , 6 – 7 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2016 . Kluge Alexander . Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Stories , translated by Fargo Cole Isabel , Stonecipher Donna , McBride Nathaniel , Hoban Wieland , Chalmers Martin , and Brady Martin . New...

... , 201 . 36. Adorno, Letters to His Parents , 68–70 . 35. Adorno, “Late Style in Beethoven,” 567 . 34. Adorno, “Mascagnis Landschaft,” 271–72 . “Carmen” references Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera. 33. Mittelmeier, Adorno in Neapel , 85 . 32. Adorno and Berg...

... it is close enough to Hoger that only she is captured in the frame in close-up. In the warm lighting she looks directly into the camera lens as opera music begins to play and the minute-film ends. 34 This minute-film originally screened at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, where it was one of seven minute...

... Auschwitz? 297. 64 Reflections on Suffering In his essay “The Opera Wozzeck,” Adorno revisits the theme of expres- sionless expression, which “has its authentic application in the most powerful moments of the musical—where music attains imageless presence. All expres- sionless music that fails...

... a respectable body of musical compositions, including an intriguing (unfinished) opera project, Der Schatz des Indianer-Joe (The Treasure of Indian Joe), based on the writings of Mark Twain. Of the published complete works in twenty volumes, no fewer than five are dedicated to musical writings...

... and construct the visible sphere; when they are switched off, all that can be seen is a dark zone with no clear boundaries. The scene gives a premonition of the Oklahama theater and the way it dissolves all boundaries. The balcony from which Karl views this turmoil belongs to an opera diva, Brunelda, who...

... by Jephcott E. F. N. . London : NLB , 1974 . Adorno Theodor W. “ The Opera Wozzeck .” In Essays on Music , edited by Leppert Richard , translated by Gillespie Susan H. , 619 – 26 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2002 . Adorno Theodor W. Philosophy...

... of Hitler, Guinness attempted a real- istic, even documentary, portrayal of the Führer fi gure fi ghting to the bitter end. However, the result as it appeared on the screen was a strange admixture of opera buffa and, if not exactly Chaplin, then certainly a befuddled Jack Benny as Hitler in Ernst...