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Mar 21, 2024 · The Good Soldier Schweik Suite consists of several short movements depicting a good-natured Czech soldier caught in the machinations of World War I. Kurka's suite was not derived from his opera of the same name; notably, the suite was written first.
Feb 14, 2017 · Robert Kurka. Born: December 22, 1921, Cicero, Illinois. Died: December 12, 1957, New York, New York. Instrumentation: Fourteen winds, timpani, and percussion. Composed: 1956. Duration: 20 minutes. The SUITE was inspired by THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK, the brilliantly realistic anti-war satire by the Czech novelist and journalist Jaroslav Hašek.
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Description by Joseph Stevenson [+] The Good Soldier Schweik is one of the most frequently produced of American operas. It is a tonal work in a style that is a direct descendent of the stage works of Kurt Weill, Werner Egk, Paul Dessau, and Darius Milhaud. It is tuneful, witty, and edgy, a convincing operatic presentation of the prototypical ...
YearTitle / Performer2013Soldier Stories American Chamber Winds / ...20033 Cents: Kurt Weil, Simon Sargon & Robert ...2001Old Wine in New Bottles Wisconsin Wind ...1994Cincinnati Wind Symphony plays Jacob ...The opera, with a witty libretto by Kurka and "Strange Fruit" lyricist Abel Meerepol, uses sections and themes from the suite. The suite and the opera retain the unusual mix of satiric edge and good humor found in Hašek's original. Schweik has become one of the great comic figures - a survivor of hellish situations through a genial non-resistance.
