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Kurt Weill Edition of Johnny Johnson Wins Claude V. Palisca Award

Nov. 12, 2013

Kurt Weill Edition of <em>Johnny Johnson</em> Wins Claude V. Palisca Award

The recent Kurt Weill Edition of Johnny Johnson, edited by musicologist Tim Carter, has been awarded the Claude V. Palisca Award at the November 2013 meeting of the American Musicological Society in Pittsburgh. This award recognizes an outstanding scholarly edition or translation in the field of musicology, which has been published during the previous year.

Johnny Johnson, Weill’s first contribution to the American stage, includes a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green. The legendary Group Theatre premiered the work in 1936 with direction by Lee Strasberg. This edition marks the first critical set of materials available for Johnny Johnson.

The Kurt Weill Foundation provides the following note on the edition:

For the Kurt Weill Edition of Johnny Johnson, Carter drew on a vast array of surviving source materials, including not only Weill's manuscripts but also rehearsal scores and sets of instrumental parts, often containing several layers of chaotic performance annotations. The edition presents Johnny Johnson in full score, with the complete spoken text placed between the musical numbers. Carter's magisterial introductory essay illuminates the work's genesis and performance history, the editorial process, and performance issues. Eleven plates with facsimiles illustrate editorial challenges and solutions. A separately published critical report documents every step of the editorial process and provides additional information for future stagings.

New Kurt Weill Edition subscribers will receive the full-color facsimile of Weill’s Partitur for Die Dreigroschenoper(The Threepenny Opera) free of charge.

For more information on The Kurt Weill Edition of Johnny Johnson, please visit www.kwf.org.

 

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