Teaching New Classicality

The Author: Tamara Levitz was born in Montréal, Canada. After completing a Master of Arts in Musicology, French Literature, and German Literature at the Technische Universität in Berlin, she attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she received her Ph.D. in Musicology in 1994. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Musicology at McGill University in Montréal, Canada.

Contents: Musical Life in Berlin around 1920 - The Politicisation of Music in the Early Weimar Republic - The Role of Leo Kestenberg - The Teachings of New Classicality - Kurt Weill - Wladimir Vogel - The Objective Setting of Texts - Busoni's Personal and Professional Crisis - Swiss Students in Berlin: Robert Blum, Luc Balmer, and Walther Geiser - The Classical Goal: Opera - The Role of Piano Performance in the Master Class - Busoni's Final Illness - Consequences of the Master Class.

'Weill scholars should be enormously grateful to Tamara Levitz for setting the record straight, with the fullest documentation conceivable, on an area hitherto only sketchily researched and understood.' (Stephen Hinton, Kurt Weill Newsletter) 'Levitz skillfully navigates her way through the complex array of information and succeeds in creating a study that.will take its place among the significant Busoni literature.' (Daniel M. Raessler, Notes)