Marianne Faithfull puts pain behind her Nov 13, 2009
She has gone from singing light folk-rock in the '60s to becoming a leading interpreter of the dark pre-World War II Berlin theatrical music of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Faithfull is proud of her role as muse to the Rolling Stones in their early years, inspiring such songs as "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Wild Horses, and "Sister Morphine" (for which she belatedly received credit for writing the lyrics). And she was a muse to the Beats Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughts and... (MSNBC -- Music)
A wide-ranging program at Longy Oct 28, 2009
He began with Charles Ives s parlor song In the Alley and three early songs by Kurt Weill. Poulenc s The Bestiary, a series of five brief songs on nonsense poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, was whimsical with an unexpected burst of poignancy in the final song, The Carp. (Boston Globe)
Music review: Fine start at Berkeley Symphony Oct 18, 2009
The same problem afflicted the opening selection, Adams' crisply witty orchestral toccata "The Chairman Dances." The sorcery of this piece is the way nostalgia and sentiment emerge from the chugging of the opening rhythms (the effect is like the sudden burst of lyricism that emerges in the middle of a Kurt Weill song). But Carneiro allowed that opening section to toddle along almost on autopilot, and the dreamy musical swirl that emerges toward the end of the piece - gorgeous as it was - lacked... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Catching up with...Watertown Hall of Famer John Simourian Oct 10, 2009
A. September Song by Kurt Weill and Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. 6. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)
Douglas Watt, 95; shaped tastes as NYC theater critic Oct 3, 2009
A pianist and a songwriter, he was fond of musicals and befriended theater composers Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, and Frank Loesser. He collaborated with Duke Ellington on an unfinished project based on George Bernard Shaw s Caesar and Cleopatra. (Boston Globe)
Stars will see (RED) at AIDS benefit Oct 1, 2009
Producer Willner has worked with top artists such as Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed and Lucinda Williams, and has also created live events and albums in tribute to legends such as Kurt Weill, Leonard Cohen and Tim Buckley ... Producer Willner has worked with top artists such as Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed and Lucinda Williams, and has also created live events and albums in tribute to legends such as Kurt Weill, Leonard Cohen and Tim Buckley. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Griffin: Songs in the key of life Jul 23, 2009
Though Kurt Weill s Mack the Knife does not immediately come to mind as an example of American music, it proved an ideal piece for Ripley. He sang it first in clear and credible German and then in English, all with an acute sense of its sinister rhythms. (Medford Transcript, MA)
Unforgettable song cycle born of desperation and loss Jul 20, 2009
In fact her most recent album, House Of Ill Repute, which she rehearsed in New Zealand and recorded in Dublin, sounds much more like Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen meet Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. It is dark, passionate, intense and features two songs from those legendary early rock'n'roll songwriters Leiber and Stoller. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Kurt Weill The Three Penny Opera Jul 18, 2009
The Three Penny Opera, a German satire by composer Kurt Weill: opera plot summary, character list, and other Weill opera information. Kurt Weill (March 2, 1900 April 3, 1950) composed Die Dreigroschenoper (The Three Penny Opera), a German satire in three acts, libretto by based on The Beggar's Opera by ... Die Dreigroschenoper (The Three Penny Opera) by Kurt Weill is a satirical opera, one of the most popular to hit the German stage. (Suite101.com)
The First Album of The Doors May 18, 2009
A Brief Review of the Songs Released in the Debut Album. The debut self-titled album of The Doors is usually considered as the best album of the band, as it contains some legendary rock songs. (Suite101.com)
Music review: 'Kurt Weill's Berlin' Apr 8, 2009
Music review: 'Kurt Weill's Berlin ... Music review: 'Kurt Weill's Berlin ... Elizabethan England had Shakespeare, imperial Vienna had Mozart and, in Weimar-era Berlin, it was Kurt Weill who made even the most gifted of his contemporaries look like also-rans. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Kurt Weill's Berlin' vivid and illuminating Apr 8, 2009
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Masterworks Broadway Releases Eight Long-Unavailable Cast Recordings Apr 8, 2009
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera became known to American audiences in the Marc Blitzstein adaptation, which introduced the English lyrics of "Mack the Knife." For the New York Shakespeare Festival's acclaimed 1976 Lincoln Center revival, the show was completely reconceived with a new translation and adaptation, and fresh treatment of Weill's extraordinary score by Stanley Silverman. Raul Julia is Macheath (here known as "Mac the Knife"), and the cast also includes Ellen... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Neuwirth at NIACC Apr 2, 2009
She has become a premiere inerpreter of the works of Kurt Weill as well as her Chicago composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb. Neuwirth also explores such landmark composers as Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim and Tom Waits. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Skip navigation Mar 24, 2009
The score for Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's "The Firebrand of Florence" made a triumphant return to Manhattan Thursday night after an ignominiously ha. In his Oak Room debut, Broadway baritone Tom Wopat sauntered into the historic cabaret corner singing the unaccompanied reflection "Last Night When We... The Allman Brothers' annual March run at Gotham's Beacon Theater has become something of a harbinger of spring, bringing with it a palpable sense of r... Songwriter John Bucchino's songs are... (Variety)
All music > Mar 18, 2009
Steven Suskin The score for Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's "The Firebrand of Florence" made a triumphant return to Manhattan Thursday night after an ignominiously hasty retreat 64 years ago. Robert L. Daniels. (Variety)
Sinful singing Mar 12, 2009
Tonight's program is the 1933 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht satirical one-act opera "The Seven Deadly Sins," hosted by Opera Boston music director Gil Rose. 7:30 p.m. $10 cover charge. (Boston Globe)
Duking It Out After 64 Years Mar 11, 2009
Composer Kurt Weill and lyricist Ira Gershwin collaborated on this 1945 operetta-style comic musical in which the main character is the Florentine artist Benvenuto Cellini. But unlike the pair's last collaboration, "Lady in the Dark," this show flopped fast, lasting only 43 performances at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon). (New York Post -- Entertainment)
'Kaspar' and 'Baloney,' two macabre tales, have drawing power Mar 2, 2009
Though this is the only song Baloney sings, Blanchet has fashioned his story in three symphonic acts, set to distinct orchestral pieces by composers Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Frederic Chopin, and Kurt Weill, best known for "The Threepenny Opera," his musical with Bertolt Brecht. (Astonishingly, there's no accompanying CD.). (Boston Globe)
A timely revival of thirties operetta Feb 24, 2009
By Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson ... Knickerbocker Holiday, by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson (book and lyrics) sends up the high stupidity, low cunning and deep, brazen corruption of government in the early American Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (which later became New York). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The Almanac -- weekly Feb 24, 2009
They include statesman DeWitt Clinton, chief sponsor of the Erie Canal project, in 1769; Sam Houston, first president of the Republic of Texas, in 1793; journalist, politician and reformer Carl Schurz in 1829; Pope Pius XII in 1876; publisher Max Schuster in 1897; German composer Kurt Weill in 1900; children's author Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel, in 1904; entertainer Desi Arnaz in 1917; actors Jennifer Jones in 1919 (age 90) and John Cullum in 1930 (age 79); former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
New Jersey Opera revises cast for 'Die Fledermaus' Feb 13, 2009
With a repertoire ranging from Igor Stravinsky to Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, Vroman has been a guest soloist with orches tras and opera companies in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Vancouver and Boston. On the stage, she has played both Fantine and Cosette in "Les Miserables" and garnered Theatre Critics' awards for her record-breaking run as Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera.". (NJ.com -- Times)
