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Discovery threatens to change art history
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Two months ago, Tomassio Strinati, a 27-year-old art historian,
made a sensational discovery.
In a chapel in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome, he
stripped away an 18th-century painting of an altar cloth and found a
fragment of a medieval fresco underneath. The fresco depicts Mary,
Jesus and two saints, and it is in astonishingly good condition.
Removing parts of the later fresco that covered the chapel walls,
Strinati found several more medieval fragments. It's possible that
underneath the more recent over-painting, the whole chapel is covered
with medieval wall paintings.
Even in ...
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Interest Surges in Music of Composer Kurt Weill
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...York declared last week to be ``Kurt Weill Week,'' with a series of concerts...good times for fans of the music of Kurt Weill. The foundation that bears the composer...s name declared last week to be `Kurt Weill Week.' The group has just published...
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Kurt Weill: Composer in a Divided World.
Magazine article from: Notes
; Whether interest in the music of Kurt Weill has matured in recent years is arguable...likewise grown, with Ronald Taylor's Kurt Weill: Composer in a Divided World being...in his review of this book in the Kurt Weill Newsletter 10 [Fall 1992]: 17...
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'The Music of Kurt Weill: September Song' airs Wednesday night on PBS. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...the song _ written in 1938 _ was by Kurt Weill, the name would have meant nothing...citizen roster our flirtation with Kurt Weill continues. Just a couple of summers...doing it) from ``The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs,'' the 90...
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Kurt Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper: A Facsimile of the Holograph Full Score. Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; Edited by Edward Harsh. (The Kurt Weill Edition, ser. IV: Miscellanea, vol. 1.) New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music; Valley Forge...48; afterword as introd. to the Kurt Weill Edition (David Drew) in Ger...
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Kurt Weill
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; 35 466 Kurt Weill Deutschland 2001 Produktion: Theviko...Daugird Lnge: 97 Min. Verleih: Salzgeber Kurt Weill, das klingt nach Anspruch und Avantgarde...Knstler auftreten, die sich heute mit Kurt Weill beschftigen und seine Songs interpretieren...
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A Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill Studien.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...of the most important aspects of Kurt Weill's reception since 1950, Weill...new worlds; the German and generic Kurt Weill Studien is more down-to-earth...Mahagonny. The proceedings from the Kurt Weill Festival in 1990 are just one of...
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Classical: Will the real Kurt Weill now please stand up? His music has survived the effect of the Nazis, Broadway and Lotte Lenya. But only just.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Which is the real Kurt Weill? The German Weill, who fled the...South Bank Centre's celebration "Kurt Weill: From Time to Time", a two-part...attempts to imitate her." As part of "Kurt Weill: From Time to Time", HK Gruber...
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Book: The modesty of a popular iconoclast; Kurt Weill, A Life in Pictures and Documents. By David Farneth, with Elmar Juchem and Dave Stein (Thames & Hudson, pounds 40). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...reference at all in its 513 pages to Kurt Weill! Breezy Bill (a nickname for the...times he lived in, vividly to life. Kurt Weill was, of course, a musical iconoclast...was on the wall for German Jews and Kurt Weill's parents had already left Germany...
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Kurt Weill.(The Firebrand of Florence: Broadway Operetta in Two Acts)(Ballade von der sexuellen Horigkeit und andere Songs fur Gesang und Klavier)(6 ausgewahlte Stucke aus Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny fur Gesang und Klavier)(Four Walt Whitman Songs for Voice and Piano)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; Kurt Weill. The Firebrand of Florence: Broadway...Justus Mayer; edited by Joel Galand. (The Kurt Weill Edition, ser. I: Stage, vol. 18.) New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc.; Miami...
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TWO VOCALISTS REVIEW KURT WEILL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Nazi regime of early 1930s Germany, Kurt Weill's politically leaning and darkly...This schism is highlighted in "Kurt Weill: Songs Degenerate and Otherwise...performed for so many years. While Kurt Weill isn't exactly Eminem when it comes...
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