New Books Shelf (June 11-18, 2008) June 10, 2008
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“In no great hurry, the short, simple train rumbles across the flat North German landscape. ‘Today the small train of my childhood is still running,’ writes Lotte Lehman in her autobiography of 1937, from Wittenberge through the thinning pine woods of sandy Wesprignitz County, straight to Perleberg, some twenty miles away.”
With these first lines, the reader of Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann is drawn to board the train that is the story of Lotte Lehmann’s extraordinary life. Michael H. Kater’s new book, hot off of Cambridge University Press (March 2008), details the struggles Lehmann faced as a brilliant singer and actress in Nazi Germany, her subsequent difficulties assimilating to American culture after she fled the Nazis, and her final days as a teacher and mentor to younger musicians.
For those fascinated by the tangled labyrinth of music, culture, and politics that ultimately resulted in “Romanticism,” James H. Donelan’s first book, Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic (Cambridge University Press, 2008), is a must-read. A nicely condensed dissertation, Donelan’s study of Hegel, Hölderlin, Wordsworth, and Beethoven provides a readable exploration of the intimately connected worlds of music and words in the first several decades of the 19th century.
Please stop by the music library to have a look at these books and the rest of our new titles this week!
These items will be available for circulation on June 18, 2008.
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