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| | Online NewsHour: Kurt Weill-March 30,2000 |
 | | Kurt Weill was one of the few who was both a genius and was a wonderful man. And it's especially, I think, apparent in that music, this sadness and this hope that the world would be a better place. | | | GWEN IFILL: German-born composer Kurt Weill is probably best known for his 1928 work, "Three Penny Opera," and his signature song, "Mack the Knife." ("Mack the Knife" playing) (singing in German) It's a tune that's been covered by everyone from jazz man Louis Armstrong... | | | And so they wanted to talk to me about how amazing it was that Weill could write great, moving, huge pieces of music based on songs. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june00/weill_3-30.html
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| | Peregrina |
| | This confrontation with the subjects of the composer Kurt Weill inspired him to write his "Bilder" (Pictures), his associations of Weill, movingly recorded on this piano solo album. | | | Milva, for example, speaks about her own path to Weill that took place via Brecht and presents the Sailors' Song in German and in Italian; Blixa Bargeld sings the Bilbao Song on an instrumental shellac recording from 1929 and Udo Lindenberg interprets the famous Mackie Messer Song in his own way. | | | They discuss their connections to Weill at the composer's original working and living places and interpret his songs. |
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http://www.peregrinamusic.de/_ap/sites/_ie/eweill.php
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| | OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: The Threepenny Opera |
| | An eclectic composer, to say the least, his musical choices were driven by the needs of the drama, and one can find elements of jazz, dance rhythms, popular song, ragtime, atonality, neo-classicism, "cabaret-style" songs, lyrical and operatic song in his work. | | | There are a number of recordings of this opera, notably some early versions with Lotte Lenya, Weill's wife (two times over): CBS CD MK 42637; Teldec CD 9031-75025-2; and Pearl CD GEMM CDS 9189. | | | There is also a CD reissue of a Polydor recording of Blitzstein's English version, with Lotte Lenya. |
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http://www.operaworld.com/special/threepenny.shtml
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| | Composer Page - Kurt Weill |
| | Weill: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op 12 - Allegro molto, un poco agitato [6'49] |
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http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/composer_page.asp?name=weill
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| | Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill |
| | I fell in love with Ute Lemper when I heard a recording of her singing Kurt Weill's "Bilbao Song." I know she has her detractors, all of whom argue that other people are better at performing Kurt Weill. | | | On this album she wrote four (4) wonderfully dark and artful songs, and continues to cover Weill as well as delving into Piazolla. | | | Lemper has also recorded an earlier album of Weill songs (with piano accompaniment only) as well as participating in Decca's recording of "Threepenny Opera" and "The Seven Deadly Sins". |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/p:B0000041VG
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| | Kurt Weill |
| | The son of a cantor who was also himself a composer, the young Weill received early music instruction form Engelbert Humperdinck and while actively employed in the theater he studied composition with the Italian composer Ferrucio Benvenuto Busoni. | | | For the rest of his life, Weill lived in America where he composed music for Broadway and later for Hollywood. | | | A modernization of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" (1728), the work's explicitly socialist libretto was set by Weill to music that borrowed from jazz and the concert hall. |
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http://www.ffaire.com/resnik/aboutweill.html
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| | Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Collection |
| | The Foundation now owns copyrights to all of Weill's scores and recordings and offers advice about their availability to producers and performers who wish to perform his music. | | | Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Collection (Accn 1555) | | | Also included in the collection are various symphony and musical programs dated from 1928-1933 and a copy of the fall 1995 Kurt Weill Newsletter. |
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http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/mss/accn1555/1555guid.html
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| | Dessau, Kurt-Weill-Festival |
| | Annual Weill festival of operas, songs, films, concerts and talks. |
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http://www.operabase.com/mkhouse.cgi?id=none&lang=en&house=wddef
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| | Tribute to Kurt Weill |
| | Weill's musical legacy is enormous, and all of it broke new musical and theatrical ground. | | | Lenya lovingly preserved Weill's music for modern audiences, and in the last years of her life passed the torch to the Greek-Canadian-American soprano Theresa Stratas, now considered the leading interpreter of Weill's songs. | | | Some music lulls us to sleep; Weill's is always a startling awakening. |
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http://www.youkali.com/weill.html
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| | Kurt Weill Edition wins Paul Revere Award |
| | European American Music Distributors LLC and the Kurt Weill Foundation are delighted to announce that the Chamber Music volume of the Kurt Weill Edition (Series II, Volume 2) has won, with a perfect score, the Music Publishers’ Association prestigious Paul Revere Award for Graphic Excellence in music engraving. | | | Weill’s chamber works, including such pieces as String Quartet in B minor, Sonata for cello and piano, String Quartet, Op. | | | Now finally Unsung Weill, brings together in one album, 22 previously unpublished songs from the famous creator of "The Three Penny Opera". |
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http://www.schott-music.com/news/komponistennews/show,14117.html
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| | 'W' ENTRIES - Page 4 on the COMPOSERS - LYRICISTS DATABASE |
| | In 1961, the singer Andy Williams had a big hit with the song "Bilbao", written in 1929 with music by Weill and lyric by Brecht. | | | The Songwriters' Hall of Fame honored Weill by inducting him into the society. | | | 1936 Weill scored the Broadway show 'Johnny Johnson', with a few cowboy songs, and some ballads such as: "Oh, Heart of Mine" "To Love You and To Leave You" "They All Take Up Psychiatry" |
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| | Kurt Weill Die Dreigroschenoper Querschni - Buy used cds, rare vinyl records, LPs and music albums |
| | Kurt Weill Die Dreigroschenoper Querschni - Buy used cds, rare vinyl records, LPs and music albums | | | Buy rare Kurt Weill Die Dreigroschenoper Querschni Vinyl Records, Hard to Find CDs & Out-of-Print LPs and Albums | | | buy cds by kurt weill, rare records, vinyl music, LPs, CD's, imports, videos, posters, out of print, used kurt weill cds |
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http://www.musicstack.com/tsearch/kurt_weill/die_dreigroschenoper_querschni
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| | NDR Bigband directed by Colin Towns - The Theatre Of Kurt Weill- ACT 9234-2 |
| | Kurt Weill has terrific theatre in his music, from beautiful melodies such as 'Speak Low' to songs about murderers like 'Mack The Knife'. | | | The NDR Big Band celebrates another composer with a centenary: Kurt Weill was born exactly one hundred years ago on 2nd March 1900. | | | They still today circulate in priceless variations from the greats of jazz - from Louis Armstrong and Sonny Rollins to Carla Bley and Charlie Haden. |
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http://www.actmusic.com/act9234.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Lenya Sings Kurt Weill: Music |
| | Kurt Weill; Audio CD ~ Kurt Weill (Composer) | | | Although her deep voice does not provide the contrast with the orchestra achieved in its origional scoring (see for example, Fassbaender or Ross's recordings) the fact that this is music written with Lenya's voice in mind makes up for this. | | | Here we hear some of her finest recordings of Weill's repetoire - The Seven Deadly Sins and a number of songs from The Threepenny Opera, The Happy End and Mahagonny. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RIDC
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| | September Songs: the Music of Kurt Weill |
| | September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill, Seven Arts' Neil Zoren featured speaker, MOTA (Movies On The Avenue), Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St., Room 100, Tues., April 1, 7 p.m., 545-4400, ext. | | | With head in hand and misery's victories in tow, singer Marianne Faithfull takes full furious gulps of Weill's oeuvre on her CD 20th Century Blues (RCA). | | | "Our music must express powerful emotions," Kurt Weill once said about his sound. |
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http://www.citypaper.net/articles/032797/article018.shtml
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| | Central Europe Review - Music: Kurt Weill's centenary |
| | As is common at moments of centenary reflection, British listeners have now been presented wholeheartedly with the renewed challenge to stoke up that flame ignited in the 1950s by the translation of warmer, more informed homage from overseas. | | | Another operatic highlight was a reconstruction of a further piece of musical theatre from the 1930s made by Lys Symonette in a new English translation by Jeremy Sams, the more than bizarre Arms and the Cow, originally commissioned for an audience of Gilbert and Sullivan Savoyards. | | | A tribute album with Weill covers by Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Elvis |
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http://www.ce-review.org/00/6/purkis6.html
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| | Famous and obscure works of Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht getting back-to-back stagings |
| | Brecht was a denizen of smoky cabarets where a small circle of groupies would listen to him intone his radical poetry as he accompanied himself on a small guitar. | | | Balanchine had a low opinion of Losch as a dancer, but was obliged to showcase her. | | | For "Seven Deadly Sins," music director Josh Schmidt is reducing Weill's lush score to a combination of live and electronic sounds to suit Theatre X's small space. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/letsgo/daily/0125threepenny.stm
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| | Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya biography |
| | Possibly performed by Weill himself in the Bierkeller where he played piano. | | | She also returned to Germany to search for Weill's lost scores, and to make her first stage and concert performances there since 1932. | | | Incidental music for the play by Arnolt Bronnen. |
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http://members.tripod.com/Barry_Stone/weill.htm
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| | Contemporary Composers: Kurt Weill |
| | After 1925 Weill's name starts to get synonomous with experimental music. | | | The next years Weill and Brecht produce ' Dreigroschenoper' (' Mack the Knife'), ' Happy End' ('Song von Mandalay, Surabaya Johnny'), 'Der Jasager', 'Der LindberghFlug' and their master piece, 'Fall und Aufstieg der Stadt Mahagonny'. | | | Here he renews the American standards in Broadway musicals with hits like 'Lady in the dark' (text: I. Gershwin), 'A touch of Venus' and 'Lost in the stars'. |
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http://hoogervorst.freehosting.net/weill.htm
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| | digihitch Road Shop: September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill |
| | Artists: Charlie Haden, Kurt Weill, Gerard Schwartz, Gerard Schwarz, The Persuasions, Y Chamber Symphony of New York, Fred Hersch, Kurt Weill, Richard Woitach, Betty Carter | | | The sole exception is the Persuasions' "O Heavenly Salvation", but one song does not an album make. | | | Home > Music > September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill |
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http://www.digihitch.com/amazonroad-B0000029WM.html
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| | Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Berlin to broadway with Kurt Weill" |
| | The singers and the songs, with Weill as the constant element, make the evening unforgettable. | | | Now, out on The Gloucester Stage, a musical voyage called "Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill" digs beneath the surfaces of the lyrics to emphasize the beauty, bite, and cohesive originality in everything Weill wrote. | | | Many songs in this thirty-eight tune show will be totally new, others are standards, but in the hands of this accomplished quartet of singers all of them are excellent. |
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http://www.theatermirror.com/btbwkwgsls.htm
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| | Boutique en ligne de partitions de Kurt Weill |
| | Lyrics by Bert Brecht, music by Kurt Weill (1900-1950). | | | Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, Marc Blitzstein, music by Kurt Weill (1900-1950). | | | Kurt Weill: Broadway & Hollywood For Piano, Voice And Guitar |
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http://www.free-scores.com/boutique/boutique-artiste-int.php?artiste=789
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| | Playbill News: Jenny's Time Is Up: Neuwirth Packs Kurt Weill Tunes in Her Carpet Bag Oct. 3 |
| | The music of Kurt Weill (and the lyrics of various writers) fuel the inscrutable work. | | | In previews, Neuwirth entered the joint singing "Bilbao Song," a song known by Weill fans but not necessarily a rousing "this-is-who-I-am" show tune. | | | Audiences pricked up their ears, listened to the number and realized they were in for something different — an exploration, an experiment. |
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http://www.playbill.com/news/article/88765.html
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| | Weill, Kurt |
| | Weill’s experiment "Lady in the Dark“ was a big success and his daring last two works for Broadway, the concept musical "Love Life“ and the musical tragedy "Lost in the Stars“, challenged the Broadway institution and audience to a degree that would not be met until the 1970s in the Sondheim-Prince collaborations. | | | Working mainly for Broadway, Weill established himself soon as a new and original voice in the American musical theater, often chosing unusual collaborators such as Paul Green, Maxwell Anderson, Ogden Nash, and Langston Hughes. | | | The Brecht-Weill piece Die Dreigroschenoper“ with its sometimes aggressive, sometimes sentimental popular song-style with elements of jazz, moritat and carabet songs remains one of his most famous works. |
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http://www.schott-music.com/autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,3566.html
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| | Play Kurt Weill by Young Gods : Music CD |
| | Play Kurt Weill by Young Gods : Music CD Play Kurt Weill by Young Gods : Music CD crimsonbird.com | | | Play Kurt Weill by Young Gods : Music CD Title -- Play Kurt Weill | | | Play Kurt Weill by Young Gods : Music CD |
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| | Bebe Neuwirth in ‘An evening of Kurt Weill’ |
| | Neuwirth was far too young to see and hear Lenya in “Threepenny&; on Christopher Street, but she has, of course, listened to Lenya on CD, and was herself a Pirate Jenny at ACT (American Conservatory Theatre) in San Francisco five years ago. | | | And from “Lost in the Stars&; (Maxwell Anderson and Weill, 1949), the title song. | | | Conducting the company is Chorale music director Robert Bass. |
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http://www.thevillager.com/villager_39/bebeneuwrthin.html
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Kurt Weill |
| | Find the music of Kurt Weill in the Archives. | | | Brecht's lyrics and the singing of Lotte Lenya, who became Weill's wife, were significant factors in its success. | | | Weill's music, like Coward's on another level, captures the flavour of an era and also successfully fuses jazz with classical elements. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/weill.html
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| | Kurt Weill music |
| | Kurt Weill music in UK About 763 news for "" | | | by Kurt Weill, Gary Yershon, Tara Hugo, Tom Hollander, Tom Mannion, Beverley Klein, Sharon Small, Simon Dormandy, Natasha Bain, Donmar Warehouse Cast | | | by Bryn Terfel, Maurice Bowen, Richard Rodgers, Frederick Loewe, Burton Lane, Kurt Weill, Irving Berlin, Paul Daniel, English Northern Philharmonia, Keith Mills |
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http://www.m-zine.com/Kurt_Weill
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| | Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill @ Filmbug |
| | Which is not to say that this is dissonant or difficult, which a lot of people seem to think Weill is: it is melodic, it is compelling, and the lyrics by Brecht are clever and still bite. | | | What you get here musically is not crystal pure tones and pretty brilliance (if you want that kind of a voice you're after Eva Cassidy not Marianne Faithfull), but a performance full of layers and expression. | | | Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill (Montreal Jazz Festival) |
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http://www.filmbug.com/asin/B00005TNFT
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| | The Days Grow Short: Life and Music of Kurt Weill Only , Paperback, Ronald Sanders,Music - General, Music, Music - ... |
| | The Days Grow Short: Life and Music of Kurt Weill Only, Paperback, Ronald Sanders,Music - General, Music, Music - General, Subjects - Biography - General, Modern, Screen - Music - Styles - Classical Music - By History - Bestsellers, Musicians - General, Screen - Music - General,. | | | Sanders speaks of Weill's perennial creations, like "Mack the Knife", "September Song", "Speak Low", "Lost in the Stars", "My Ship"... | | | The Days Grow Short: Life and Music of Kurt Weill, Paperback |
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| | Theatre Mirror Reviews - "LENYA The Love of Kurt Weill" |
| | The workaholic Weill spent much of his life in a room, writing a violin concerto, operas, ballets in addition to all the songs that make him immortal, while Lenya lived, sometimes for years, with other men and toured the world performing and singing. | | | It will cost you twenty dollars to share with this company the loves and lives and music of Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill. | | | The photos of Lenya and Weill in the program are linked by a background of the staves of music paper, for even though Lenya married him (twice) and divorced him (once) and saw him die, what held her to Weill, then as now, was his music. |
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http://www.theatermirror.com/ltlkwls.htm
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95040544 |
| | Weill gave music to her voice, Lenya gave voice to his music. | | | Publisher description for Speak low (when you speak love) : the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya / edited and translated by Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke. | | | Lenya's unfinished autobiographical account of her life before Weill is also included, along with a prologue, epilogue, and connective commentary. |
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| | Kurt Weill |
| | The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs (1995) (TV) | | | Ute Lemper chante Kurt Weill (1992) (TV) (from his songs) | | | aka Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill (International: English title) |
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http://us.imdb.com/Name?Weill,+Kurt
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| | Weill, Kurt (1900 - 1950) |
| | Weill arranged an instrumental suite from Die Dreigroschenopfer, the Kleine Dreigroschenmusik. | | | Kurt Weill was an important figure in German musical life during the period of the Weimar Republic. | | | Weill collaborated with Bertold Brecht in Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), a topical derivative of The Beggar's Opera set in contemporary Germany, with music strongly influenced by the jazz of the period. |
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http://www.naxos.com/composer/weill.htm
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| | Kurt Weill |
| | Interest Surges in Music of Composer Kurt Weill | | | In 1935 he emigrated to the United States, where he began writing sophisticated musicals, the most notable being | | | In these works Weill employed with great facility advanced techniques, including multiple rhythms and polytonality, combined with the idiom of American popular music and jazz. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0851775.html
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| | Kurt Weill - Weill Editions: 2. Concert Suites |
| | A concert-ordering of most of the Silbersee music, without recourse to dialogue or narrations, was requested by the conductor Gary Bertini for his all-Weill programme at the 1975 Berlin Festival, and first performed on 10 September 1975 (by the Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Anja Silja and Günther Reich as soloists). | | | A popular success at The Barbican Centre in January 2000 (conductor, Stephen Jackson, soloist Thomas Randle), the Suite was commissioned by the American Symphony Orchestra for Leon Botstein's first concert as Music Director, and received its premiere, with William Brown as soloist, at Carnegie Hall on 20th September 1992. | | | At D's suggestion, a scrupulous reconstruction of the second tango was made by the composer and conductor HK Gruber for his Weill recording for Largo, 'Berlin im Licht' (it was surely this recording which prompted the Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar to choose the instrumental Youkali in his 1993 hit-film Kika). |
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http://www.singscript.plus.com/daviddrewmusic/weillworks-2.htm
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| | Inventiveness, wit keeping Alsop busy |
| | Three other CDs - music of Philip Glass, John Adams and Kurt Weill - are about to be released. | | | Her latest album, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and the film score to On the Waterfront with the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, is irresistibly vivid. | | | Is it hard to get a British orchestra to swing? |
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http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/04/22/tem_ae22alsop.html
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| | MetroActive Music Random Music Notes |
| | The latest tribute to the Threepenny Opera author is an Aug. 19 Sony Classics album entitled September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill. | | | The set, based on a 1996 PBS special of the same name, features artists such as Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, David Johansen, classic songstress Teresa Stratas, Elvis Costello, jazz giant Charlie Haden, the Persuasions, Betty Carter, Mary Margaret O'Hara, and Lou Reed. | | | The mysterious allure of German playwright/composer Kurt Weill continues to work its magic on rockers fascinated with his classic early-20th-century work. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/06.12.97/music-9724.html
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| | Street Scene |
| | Street Scene is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Elmer Rice with book by Elmer Rice, lyrics by Langston Hughes, and music by Kurt Weill. | | | The UCSC Music Department will present Street Scene, a 1947 American opera by composer Kurt Weill, Thursday through Sunday, June 3 to 6, at the Music Center Recital Hall. | | | For a complete listing of Achievement Week events, see related story. |
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http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/05-24/opera.html
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| | Kurt Weill Discography at CD Universe |
| | Personnel includes: Kurt Weill (vocals, piano); Ira Gershwin (vocals). | | | Kurt Weil & Vibes Revisited: Kurt Weil (vibraphone); Christoph Grab (alto & tenor saxophones); Stefan Stahel (piano); Joe Beck (guitar); Mark Egan (bass); Danny Gottleib (drums). | | | TRY OUT contains private rehearsal tapes of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin singing selections from the shows ONE TOUCH OF VENUS and... |
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http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Weill%2C+Kurt/a/Kurt+Weill.htm
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