The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics

SUMARIO // Foreword: What Composers on Screen Can Do for Us ; Russell Jackson // Introduction ; Paul Fryer // Composers on Screen and on Stage: A Comparison ; Daniel-Meyer-Dinkgräfe / Orpheus in the Movie World: Offenbach on Film ; Laurence Senelick / Dance of the Seven Veils ; Pierre Bellemare / Verdi: A Life in Three Movies ; Paul Fryer / Sisters of Faith and Genius: Hildegard von Bingen and Nannerl Mozart ; Carmen Gorgichuk / Le Roi danse (The King Dances) ; Pierre Bellemare / Hagiography or Realism? Wagner Bio-Pics ; F. Jane Schopf / Staging Gender and Genius in James Lapine’s Impromptu ; Lindsay Brandon Hunter / Picturing the Cradle: Blitzstein as Memory, Blitzstein as Comedy ; John Patrick Bray / Cole Porter’s Fabulous Film Lives: Night and Day and De-Lovely ; Ellen M. Peck / La Symphonie fantastique ; Pierre Bellemare / Robert Schumann: A Double Vision ; John C. Tibbetts / All That Jazz: George Gershwin, American Mythology and Rhapsody in Blue (1945) ; Samuel J. Umland / Elgar and Delius ; Nesta Jones / Picturing the Composer ; Gary Yershon // About the Contributors // Index.