Blitzstein

This is very much the antidote to the glossy American musical from Blitzstein, the man who would go on to Broadway success with his adaptation of Weill and Brecht's Threepenny Opera.

The Cradle Will Rock – review Lyn Gardner 2010

Any commercial music was the opiate of the masses, as Marc Blitzstein showed in his parody pop tunes "Croon Spoon" and "Honolulu," in The Cradle Will Rock (1937).

Out of Our Dreams 2002

In the early years of the Depression the Composers 'Collective, a circle that included Blitzstein and Aaron Copland, tried to develop an alternative music for the masses.

Out of Our Dreams 2002

In the early years of the Depression the Composers 'Collective, a circle that included Blitzstein and Aaron Copland, tried to develop an alternative music for the masses.

Out of Our Dreams 2002

Any commercial music was the opiate of the masses, as Marc Blitzstein showed in his parody pop tunes "Croon Spoon" and "Honolulu," in The Cradle Will Rock (1937).

Out of Our Dreams 2002

He was then deeply immersed in the murder trial of a Las Vegas Mob figure named Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein, a lieutenant of slain mobster Anthony “Tony the Ant” Spilatro, which he would later win.

In Cold, Blue Blood Dunne, Dominick 1999

These include films by Giuliano Montaldo and Sidney Lumet, music by Ruth Crawford (Seeger), Marc Blitzstein and Woody Guthrie (who recorded an album about the men in 1960, called "Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti") and visual art by Ben Shahn, Rockwell Kent and Gutzon Borglum, among others.

NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011

Blitzstein, and Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal - the sort of characters who made Tony Soprano look like Mother Theresa.

BBC News - Home 2011

And following the performance and recording session, Blitzstein took Lewis into a private booth - paid for from his own pocket - to re-record some of the high notes.

Playbill.com : News 2010

And following the performance and recording session, Blitzstein took Lewis into a private booth - paid for from his own pocket - to re-record some of the high notes.

Playbill.com : News 2010