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Contemporary Music Review
VOLUME 27 NUMBERS 2/3 APRIL/JUNE 2008
Stefan Wolpe
Edited by Austin Clarkson
Contents
Foreword
Austin Clarkson 165
Writings by Stefan Wolpe
What is Film Music?
Preface by Hyesu Shin (translated by Sherri Jones) 171
What is Jewish Music?
Preface by Austin Clarkson 179
The Frances Parker Lecture
Preface by Martin Brody 193
Program Notes 201
Remarks before Concerts 219
Articles
‘Where to Act, How to Move’: Unruly Action in Late Wolpe
Martin Brody 223
Friedl Dicker and Stefan Wolpe: Portrait of a Friendship
Heidy Zimmermann 245
Olga Okuniewska Wolpe, 1902–1985
Austin Clarkson 251
Scho ̈ ne Geschichten and Zeus und Elida: Wolpe’s Chamber Operas
Thomas Phleps (translated by Austin Clarkson and Larson Powell) 257
Zeus und Elida: Wolpe’s Only Opera
Austin Clarkson & Hyesu Shin 269
Folk Song versus High Modernism: Stefan Wolpe’s Song of Songs Settings in
the Context of the ‘New Palestine’
Heidy Zimmermann 289
Musical Freefall: Projecting the Time-Space of Wolpe’s Battle Piece
David Holzman 307
Itinerant Atonality: Stefan Wolpe’s Middle Period Work
Larson Powell 323
Boundary Situations: Translation and Agency in Wolpe’s Modernism
Brigid Cohen 341
Embodiment and Criticism of Abstract Expressionism in ‘Inception’ from
Wolpe’s Enactments for Three Pianos
Andrew Kohn 361
Debussy, Wolpe and Dialectical Form
Matthew Greenbaum 365
Notes from the Trenches: Editing Symphony No. 1
Robert Falck 383
Wolpe, Vare` se and the Busoni Effect
Austin Clarkson 393
Notes on Contributors 415