Juris Svendsen Collection 1960-1994

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Juris Svendsen Collection 1960-1994

Audio tapes of spoken word and musical performances, largely related to Bertolt Brecht and radical theater of the 1960s.

7 boxes:; 94 open reel tapes, 34 audiocassettes

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6651773

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Eisler, Hanns

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Composed 1932. First performance by the British Broadcasting Corp. Orchestra, London, March 1935, Ernest Ansermet conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Kleine Sinfonie No. 1 : for orchestra, op. 29 / Hanns Eisler. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51733565 Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) was a German composer. His family moved to Vienna in 1902, and Eisler grew up and studied there, most notably with Arnold Schoenberg in the earl...

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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Brecht was a German dramatist and poet. Karl Korsch was a Marxist theoretician. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Korsch, 1934-ca.1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122556373 From the guide to the Bertolt Brecht correspondence with Karl Korsch, ca. 1934-1954., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reyersbach was a pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases; she came to the U.S. in ...

Svendsen, Juris

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Svendsen was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1938, and later studied philosophy and speech and drama in the United States. From 1959 to 1962 he was a graduate student in the drama department at Stanford. After leaving Stanford Svendsen taught drama and drama theory at UC Berkeley and at the California Arts Institute. He was active in Bay Area theater-life as director, actor, trnslator, playwright, and teacher. He specialized in Brechtian and post-Brechtian experimental theater. He had contacts with and...