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TWO VOCALISTS REVIEW KURT WEILL
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In the gathering storm of the impending Nazi regime of early 1930s
Germany, Kurt Weill's politically leaning and darkly satirical songs
were condemned as degenerate.
When the composer later escaped to the United States, he quickly
became the toast of the pop music scene. This schism is highlighted
in "Kurt Weill: Songs Degenerate and Otherwise," a revue of Weill
songs being presented at Harvard Square's The Market Theater, a new
venue dedicated to presenting works outside the mainstrea...
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TWO VOCALISTS REVIEW KURT WEILL
The Boston Globe
; In the gathering storm of the impending Nazi regime of early 1930s Germany, Kurt Weill's politically leaning and darkly satirical songs were condemned as degenerate. When the composer later escaped to the United States, he quickly became the toast of the pop music scene. This schism is highlighted
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 "All Things Considered (NPR)")
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Interest Surges in Music of Composer Kurt Weill
All Things Considered (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 New York declared last week to be ``Kurt Weill Week with a series of concerts of Weill's music, and a book of letters between Weill and his singer wife Lotte Lenya has been published recently. ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: This is All Things Considered; I'm Robert Siegel. LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host:
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LEMPER IN LEGAL WRANGLE OVER LICENSING FEE
The Boston Globe
; Ten promoters of the current American tour of Ute Lemper, the German chanteuse who has built her career on singing and recording the music of Kurt Weill, have filed suit against the holders of the Weill copyrights and their agents, charging that the licensing fees for permission to perform Weill's
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(book reviews)
Notes
; Edited by Edward Harsh. (The Kurt Weill Edition, ser. IV: Miscellanea, vol. 1.) New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music; Valley Forge, Pa.: European American Music, 1996. [Pref. in Ger., Eng., p. vii-viii; Dreigroschenoper Chronology, 1927-1972, p. 1-4; essay Die Dreigroschenoper: The 1928 Full
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Kurt Weill
Film - Dienst
; 35 466 Kurt Weill Deutschland 2001 Produktion: Theviko/ SFB/ HFF Konrad Wolf Regie und Buch: Sven Dfer Kamera: Christian Schulz Schnitt: Halina Daugird Lnge: 97 Min. Verleih: Salzgeber Kurt Weill, das klingt nach Anspruch und Avantgarde; wer seine Lieder singt, gilt als ernsthafter Knstler. Doch
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'The Music of Kurt Weill: September Song' airs Wednesday night on PBS. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Those of us now who were kids during the Second World War knew the words to ``September Song'' and sang it as we walked to school or Scouts with no idea that it came from a Broadway musical called ``Knickerbocker Holiday (Nor did we know that it was sung there by Peter Stuyvesant.) Had anyone
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Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway.(Brief Article)
American Theatre
; KURT WEILL ON STAGE: From Berlin to Broadway by Foster Hirsch, Knopf, New York. 416 pp, 83 illus., $35 cloth. AFTER THE SPLENDID PHOTO ALBUMS edited by David Farneth for Overlook Press on Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and his wife, Lotte Lenya, one might wonder what remains to be discovered about the
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 "Fresh Air (NPR)")
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From Berlin to Broadway
Fresh Air (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 TERRY GROSS, HOST: The Kurt Weill phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down. Weill died in 1950 at the age of 50, but two years before his centennial, record companies are rushing to put out recordings of his music. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of some of them.
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Making 'LoveMusik' with Weill and Lenya
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
; ... LoveMusik" opens on Broadway this Thursday evening. For NPR News, I'm Jeff Lunden in New York. NEARY: You can hear Lenya and Weill ... their first meeting at npr.org. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Liane Hansen returns next week. I'm Lynn Neary. Copyright 2005 ...
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Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway
Opera News
; Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway by Foster Hirsch Alfred A. Knopf 416 pp. $35 Early in this survey of Kurt Weill's stage works, Foster Hirsch, a professor of theater at Brooklyn College, CUNY, notes that show-folk prefer "the American Weill" and academics "the German Weill." Hirsch sets
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