Dolling up the Pops, Palmer gives it her all Jun 21, 2008
She has been deeply influenced by the music of Kurt Weill. But how many of her fans know Weill's European work or that of any of his contemporaries. (Boston Globe)
To 6/18: Tom Waits Jun 18, 2008
Small Change - The best example of Waits' '70s work, this 1976 offering is the bastard child of Charles Bukowski and Kurt Weill in a seedy LA bar. Filled with wit and fueled by alcohol, this masterpiece features such Waits faves as The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) and the manic take on consumerism, Step Right Up. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Heroes, villains, Jun 17, 2008
On the heroic side, most songs tend to romance, nostalgia and broken hearts, with Smitherman leading Romberg's "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," Gross serenading the downtrodden "Dulcinea" from "Man of La Mancha," and both recalling their lost love in "Lily's Eyes" from Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman's "The Secret Garden." Stein-Grainger laments the loss of "South Pacific" heroine Nellie Forbush in "This Nearly Was Mine. Balancing the rousing ensemble numbers like "Luck Be a Lady" from "Guys and... (NJ.com -- Times)
Global invitation May 30, 2008
" Another musical film is The Eternity Man, an opera about Arthur Stace, the shadowy ex-alcoholic who penned the word "Eternity" on Sydney's footpaths for 40 years. Featuring music by Jonathan Mills and words by poet Dorothy Porter, the ambitious production is directed by Julien Temple (Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten) and stars Grant Doyle and Christa Hughes. "It has elements of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill," says Temple of the colourful tale, shot in Sydney last year. Other Aussie films... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Beowulf,' Rock Opera May 27, 2008
That said, he and Malloy have packed this "Beowulf" with theatrical verve as provocative as it is entertaining, with a score that draws on everything from blues and country to haunting echoes of Kurt Weill and Weimar cabaret - the rock rhythms subconsciously evoking the alliterative beats of the ancient epic. It isn't quite a triumph, but it comes pretty close. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
I am of my tribe May 24, 2008
The great cabaret singer Lotte Lenya, who underwent ceremonies with Kurt Weill on two separate occasions and on two separate continents, spent an intermittent total of 22 years married to the versatile composer. Many years after Weill's death in 1950, she was asked exactly what kind of man he had been. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Cabaret review: Barbara Cook remains divine May 22, 2008
In one rueful turn on the subject of letter writing, she slowed down Fred Ahlert and Joe Young's "Gonna Sit Right Down" to a ruminative dirge and fused it with "I Wish I Could Forget You," from Sondheim's "Passion." Sondheim figured in another mini-medley, when Cook made Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's "Lost in the Stars" a softly glowing pathway to "No More.". The evening was especially gratifying for anyone who had heard Cook on her 2000 visit to San Francisco, in a bumpy outing at the Geary... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Air This Week May 20, 2008
2 p.m. Kurt Weill Fest Dessau 2008 (MDR Figaro: mdr. de/mdr-figaro); The New Edge/Ken Field (WMBR: 88. (Boston Globe)
Cantata Singers pay tribute to Hart Crane's vision May 13, 2008
The Cantata Singers' valuable season-long exploration of the music of Kurt Weill came to an end on Friday night. Weill, however, was relegated to second billing; the major event was the local premiere of "High Bridge: A Choral Symphony after Poems of Hart Crane," by Charles Fussell, a composer with deep Boston roots. (Boston Globe)
Pittsburgh’s Point Park emerges as top-notch theater school May 9, 2008
They saw a Broadway, TV and film actress prepare for a show, and listened to her vibrant voice fill the theater as she performed songs from Chicago and Cabaret, as well as two Kurt Weill compositions arranged by Saver. Later, they peppered her with questions about succeeding in show business. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Cantata Singers & Ensemble May 8, 2008
May 9 David Hoose's stellar troupe winds up its Kurt Weill season with the composer's intriguing, rarely performed second symphony. The singers join the orchestra for the Boston premiere of Charles Fussell's choral symphony "High Bridge." Karyl Ryczek, Janna Baty, William Hite, and David Kravitz are the dynamite soloists. (Boston Globe)
NIACC announces line-up for 2008-2009 Performing Arts and Leadership Series Apr 17, 2008
She has become a premiere interpreter of the works of Kurt Weill as well as her Chicago composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, and their catalogues are well represented. Neuwirth also explores such landmark composers as Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, and Tom Waits. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Lost Highway Apr 7, 2008
It includes quotations - from Kurt Weill and a Monteverdi madrigal - but otherwise the fine detail gets homogenised by the electronics, an aural emulsion that is generally just a neutral background to the speech and song. ENO's production is highly accomplished. (Guardian Unlimited)
'No. 1' musical starts Wednesday Apr 3, 2008
Roger said Urinetown fits into the tradition of satirical social commentary and protest theater pioneered in the early 20th century by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Clifford Odets. Rogers said "Urinetown" is a tale about polarity -;-;- the haves and haves not, the powerful and powerless - an endless list of divisive separations, and that the play's goal is to reveal both polar extremes as dangerous and useless in dealing with real problems. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Lofty lineup Apr 3, 2008
Opening concert Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. As in "Show me the way to the next whiskey bar." Susan Bickley and Willard White sing. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Russell and Michael: the sequel Mar 28, 2008
"We sang a Kurt Weill duet together, and there was something, a spark that remained," Braun says. They first met as students, in the late eighties. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Bebe Neuwirth belts out the best of Fosse and Weill Mar 28, 2008
The Tony Award-winning Broadway actress (or Lilith from "Cheers" to most) was taking an edgy plunge on the usually candy-coated PNC Pittsburgh Symphony Pops series -- a program dedicated to the music of Broadway team John Kander and Fred Ebb and their inspiration, German-born composer Kurt Weill. This was serious stuff, music born of the dark edges of the human soul, comical lyrics with a definite bite, a swooning atmosphere that bordered on the surreal. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Darker shade of gloom for Lynch Mar 27, 2008
" What Neuwirth came up with is a vast soundscape in which the sound of 26 players and 11 singers and singing actors is mingled with video images and a synthesised soundtrack. Snatches of Kurt Weill and Monteverdi add a further strangeness to the mix. "I wanted to blur the boundaries, so that you don't know which sounds are real and which are coming from the speakers all round the auditorium," Neuwirth says. "It creates the effect of immersion in a kind of aural phantasmagoria. " Diane Paulus,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Classical composers take on edgy, spirited style Mar 19, 2008
Jennifer Koh performed Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto with the Cantata Singers at Jordan Hall on Sunday ... On Sunday, the Cantata Singers continued their seasonlong exploration of the music of Kurt Weill with a compare-and-contrast concert highlighting Weill's Teflon resistance to the weight of history. (Boston Globe)
Cabaret: The Dark Angel Jan 30, 2008
O'Sullivan's oeuvre, in fact, is singing dark and stormy narrative songs - think Kurt Weill and Jacques Brel - along with the modern-day work of songwriters such as Nick Cave and Tom Waits. Her look is high-octane glamour - not everyone can pull off fire-engine-red lipstick - but O'Sullivan has gradually ditched sequins, jewellery and feather boas in favour of lace-up boots, veils and corsetry. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Insert The Name Of The Person You Love Dec 29, 2007
Songs by Jacques Brel, Bertolt Brecht, Dolly Parton, Kurt Weill along with Chinese courtesan tunes are up-ended with a wild, sensual and melodic vigour. At High Line, Meow sang Bowie's Rock'n'Roll Suicide while screaming at crowd members to get out of her way, "I'm a professional", descending a staircase and crowd surfing to the stage where a chorus of children dressed as mini-Meows finished the song. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stage year in review: A standing ovation for new plays Dec 27, 2007
At a time when original scores often sound anything but original, the forever-fresh tunes in this beautifully staged Kurt Weill homage were just the ticket. Worst musical: The Pirate Queen. (USA Today -- Life)
Read on... Dec 1, 2007
Three songs that mean a lot to me: Beware of Darkness,George HarrisonMack The Knife, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill Imagine, John Lennon. Ever feel that certain song lyrics were written with you in mind. (Variety)
We're sorry we forgot all of these Nov 23, 2007
On her most recent album, she reaches glorious artistic fruition, straddling the borders where Americana meets Kurt Weill. Anyone who loves music and who still harbours a sense of discovery and a sense of fun should have this album. (Guardian Unlimited)
Rebuilding 'Young Frankenstein' from screen to stage Nov 12, 2007
In the musical: Blucher bursts into the song "He Vas My Boyfriend," like Lotte Lenya singing a Kurt Weill number. SETTING THE STAGE: The creature, frightened when Igor strikes a match, begins to choke Frederick, who plays charades to tell Inga and Igor to get a sedative. (New York Daily News)
Brunch, with a side of jazz Oct 24, 2007
He and Duprey chose to perform a trio of songs by Kurt Weill, a leading composer for the stage from the 1920s up until his death in 1950. His works include the jazz standard Mack the Knife. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
NOT YET ON FIRM FOOTING Oct 19, 2007
The major works, both by Wheeldon, were "There Where She Loved," set to an oddly contrasted selection of songs by Chopin and Kurt Weill, and the impressive "Fools' Paradise," to a romantically cinematic score by British composer Joby Talbot. Wheeldon seems obsessed with the mechanics of partnering, tending to use the male dancer chiefly as a porter, as in the old days of the 19th century. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Perfect setting for 'The Lindbergh Flight'' Sep 21, 2007
One of the odder tributes was "The Lindbergh Flight," a cantata for soloists, chorus, and chamber orchestra by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Weimar culture's original dynamic duo ... Hoose says the Kurt Weill Foundation now mandates that the piece be performed with the original text. (Boston Globe)
Bertolt Brecht's playwriting genius didn't translate to film Sep 17, 2007
Brecht and his musical collaborator, Kurt Weill, had crafted "The Threepenny Opera," which premiered on the stage in 1928, as a cynical, hard-bitten melodrama of life at the margins. Expected to flop at the box office, "Threepenny" (tailored from an 18th-century work by John Gay, with adaptations of ballads by Francois Villon and Rudyard Kipling) proved a massive theatrical hit in Berlin, and prompted inevitable calls for a cinematic adaptation. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Fall Arts Preview Sep 9, 2007
Season features works by Kurt Weill. 9/23: 3 p.m. Weill's cantata "The Lindbergh Flight" with William Hite, tenor; David Kravitz, baritone; Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass-baritone. (Boston Globe -- Living)
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The worlds most musical cities Sep 1, 2007
Mack The Knife Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill. Hit songs about City, New York, United States. (Suite101.com)
'Young Frankenstein' is back for another fun roll in ze hay Aug 26, 2007
She does a 1920s Berlin cabaret-style number that could have been borrowed from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera." As a songwriter, Brooks is a master of parody. Martin's delivery proves once and for all that true comedy can be made out of the solemn performance style of bygone German divas on the order of Marlene Dietrich or Lotte Lenya. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
Theater review: PCPA's 'Urinetown' is a whiz of a new musical production Aug 24, 2007
The main sound of Hollman s score seems to have been influenced by composer Kurt Weill, who collaborated with Brecht on several projects in the 1920s (most famously The Threepenny Opera, which gave the world the song Mack the Knife ). The score also features several other musical styles, and comically references well-known musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story and Les Miserables. (Santa Maria Times)
Public radio Aug 18, 2007
Kurt Weill, text Bertolt Brecht: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny. 6:07 p.m. Prairie Home Companion Dog Days of Summer Special. (Montana Standard, MT)
Love of theater paves visit by German teens Aug 9, 2007
Her reference to "The Threepenny Opera" composer Kurt Weill -- "I always looked to him as the master," she said -- was met with blank stares. "No idea," admitted Markus. (Boston Globe -- Local)
Old-school rock'n'roll still makes the grade Jul 26, 2007
Well, Alright staggers along with Temptations-like backing vocals rubbing uncomfortably against Almqvist's yelps and screams until it takes a befuddling - and fatal - leap into Kurt Weill territory. Tick Tick Boom is a retro whimper but Try It Again is better, a jagged, life-affirming pop song wrapped around a cut-throat guitar riff and a catchy refrain: "You get up, you get down, you try it again." It is more sure-footed than the standard fare from Tyrannosaurus Hives it nestles between, but... (Guardian Unlimited)
Brownstone of poet Langston Hughes experiences own Harlem renaissance Jul 23, 2007
Emerson Harper bought the house in 1947, likely with royalties Hughes received for writing the lyrics to the Kurt Weill Broadway musical Street Scene, according to Rampersad and property records. Harper's and Hughes' names appeared on the deed, records show. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Canada's best-kept secrets in the arts Jun 30, 2007
This year's festival ran for just over two weeks, starting May 31, and presented some 50 events, including performances of Dvorak's opera Rusalka and Der Silbersee ( A Winter's Fairy Tale) by Kurt Weill and Georg Kaiser. Next year, Agler expects to be working in Wexford's new opera theatre whose main auditorium will contain 750 seats. (Globe and Mail)
What makes a good cover? Jun 21, 2007
Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Billie Holiday and countless other vocalists were celebrated for their ability to interpret the work of songwriters such as George and Ira Gershwin; Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht; and Hoagy Carmichael ... In the past, Ferry has refashioned songs of every ilk: John Lennon's Jealous Guy, the Leslie Gore hit It's My Party, Kurt Weill's September Song. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Citizens Band Jun 14, 2007
Original pieces were seldom as melodically gripping, but most had at least a nugget or two of interest, particularly "Gasoline," which radiated an elegant menace reminiscent of vintage Kurt Weill. Contrary to the mood of the company-sung "Chewing Up the Scenery," most of the far-flung ensemble delivered clever perfs -- like Rain Phoenix's burning-ember "Fortune Teller" and Angela McCluskey's bluer-than-blue "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" -- that leaned more towards insinuation than declamation. (Variety)
A gloriously over-the-top romp with Rufus Jun 13, 2007
In an age of over-emoted throwback soul, insanely simplistic two-chord bubble gum pop-punk and sadly generic rock, Rufus Wainwright turns heads by channelling artists as diverse as Judy Garland, Kurt Weill and Neil Diamond. When others look to the sixties and seventies for inspiration, Wainwright wobbles happily through the past 150 years, mining Viennese opera, prewar German cabaret and Gilbert and Sullivan musicals, and mixing them all together in a sort of head-scratching musical... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Sleepers Wake/ Watchet Auf! Jun 11, 2007
The structure was based on Bach's Goldberg Variations, which were reset in diverse later styles, creating a cultural mis-remembering of musical history as Bach becomes Ernest Chausson, Dave Brubeck or, most effectively at the close, sunk into a distracted tobacco haze in the style of Kurt Weill as though to say, "You would really rather not know". Unfortunately, the musical performances were flawed, with significant intonation problems, which in one sense could be taken as part of the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The voice is back| Jun 10, 2007
His style is a classic mix of The Mills Brothers, Sinatra, Kurt Weill (remember 'Mack the Knife. Dean Martin and others of that ilk, yet there is absolutely nothing dated, boring or old fashioned about the mans music. (iAfrica.com)
Handicapping the Tonys Jun 9, 2007
The only "new" Broadway musical of the 2006-07 season with a strong score is "LoveMusik," and its songs were written by Kurt Weill, who died in 1950. The new songs added to the stage version of "Mary Poppins" aren't bad, but much of the score is similarly recycled from the 1964 movie. (Wall Street Journal)
Terrence McNally's `The Ritz' returns to Broadway this fall Jun 5, 2007
"LoveMusik." Donna Murphy and Michael Cerveris star in this musical about composer Kurt Weill and his wife, Lotte Lenya. Biltmore. (FOX News)
Soak up the arts at Spoleto Jun 5, 2007
Tuesday: The Music in Time series devotes this program to chamber music by opera composers heard at the festival this summer: Pascal Dusapin ("Faustus, The Last Night") and Kurt Weill ("The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"). Wednesday: Composer Philip Glass' face adorns the Spoleto program book this year, in a fingerprint drawing by Chuck Close; poster versions are seen everywhere throughout Charleston. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Place your bets for when Atlantis will launch Jun 1, 2007
(If there is now a Kurt Weill song knocking around your head, I am much prouder of that than I ought to be. I love the fact that the map features the ; how brilliant would it be if other regional chains were represented. (USA Today -- Tech)
Cantata Singers to offer a season of Kurt Weill May 25, 2007
The Cantata Singers' 2007-08 season will be centered on Kurt Weill, the migr composer whose music uniquely connected the European concert hall, Weimar cabaret, and Broadway theater. The ensemble will aim to shed light on Weill's complex web of influences by interweaving his music with that of composers such as Schoenberg, Dallapiccola, Orff, and Brahms. (Boston Globe)
Many music mysteries solved at Milken Archive May 25, 2007
Singer Ted Christopher and a German orchestra record music from Kurt Weill s pageant The Eternal Road for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn may very well be the most famous of all Yiddish songs. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
New Line Theatre Closes its Season With A Big Yellow Splash - 'URINETOWN' Comes To The ArtLoft! (Don't Get It On Your Shoes!) May 21, 2007
Inspired by the outrageous political theatre of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, and (very) loosely based on the writings of eighteenth-century political and economic theorist Thomas Malthus, URINETOWN is a gloriously silly, irreverently truthful satire from which no target is safe (including the show itself). With songs like "It's a Privilege to Pee," "Snuff That Girl," and "I See a River," this is a show that catapults musical comedy into the new millennium with its rule-shattering tear through... (PR Newswire)
Tony contenders from birth May 21, 2007
"In other words, all the movie "Legally Blonde" lacked to be made into a tuner called "Legally Blonde" was a creative team, whom Luftig found in the order of director Jerry Mitchell, songwriters Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and, finally, book writer Heather Hach, a legit newcomer whose "Freaky Friday" screenplay had impressed the producer.Over at "LoveMusik," it was a veteran helmer who gave birth to the show, which has been nomed for four Tonys. Back in 1999, Hal Prince asked playwright... (Variety)
Laughter unleashed 'Over the Tavern' May 17, 2007
She's part of the ensemble of the new musical "LoveMusik," about the love affair and marriage between composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya. Morrison also is the understudy to star Donna Murphy, who developed something of a reputation for missing performances during her 2003-2005 run in a revival of "Wonderful Town.". (Herald-Tribune)
'Awakening' leads Tony noms with 11 May 17, 2007
"Curtains and "Poppins" received noms for best musical, but "Blonde" did not. Although it has received mixed to good reviews, and Laura Bell Bundy earned a nomination for best musical actress, the odds for it receiving a major Tony Award are long, which could affect its performance at the boxoffice. Still, it figures to be in better shape than "The Pirate Queen," the $16 million musical from "Les Miserables" creators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg that has been skewered by critics and... (Hollywood Reporter)
2007 Tony Nominees May 16, 2007
McDonald's competition includes Christine Ebersole, up for her dual roles of an off-kilter mother and her quirky daughter in "Grey Gardens"; Debra Monk, a tough-minded producer in "Curtains"; Laura Bell Bundy, the fashion-conscious, would-be lawyer in "Legally Blonde," and Donna Murphy as actress Lotte Lenya in "LoveMusik," a look at Lenya's relationship with composer Kurt Weill. Michael Cerveris' portrait of Weill also received a nomination in the actor-musical category. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Chasing Tony May 16, 2007
Groff has stiff competition: Ra l Esparza, who gives a smoldering performance as the schlub who cannot figure out marriage in the revival of Company; Michael Cerveris, the popular Broadway actor who portrays composer Kurt Weill in LoveMusik; David Hyde Pierce, of Frasier TV fame, whose nuanced performance of a detective is pure fun in Curtains; and Gavin Lee, the animated, loose-jointed Bert of Mary Poppins. The nods for leading actress in a musical went to Laura Bell Bundy, the unendingly... (Philadelphia Inquirer)
'Spring' awakens to 11 Tony nominations May 16, 2007
Spring' awakens to 11 Tony nominations. NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO. (Herald-Tribune)
Cantata's approach: Twice is nice May 14, 2007
In 2007-08, the group will change gears with a season focused on the music of Kurt Weill. Jeremy Eichler can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
Complex 'Coram,' lovable 'LoveMusik' take historical cues May 7, 2007
The new musical, with a book by Alfred Uhry, traces the turbulent romance of German composer Kurt Weill and chanteuse (and all-around colorful character) Lotte Lenya ... Portrait: David Pittu, center, plays Bertolt Brecht, who worked with composer Kurt Weill, in LoveMusik. (USA Today -- Life)
From the Footlights: Astoria resident plays Sondheim role (and the tuba) May 4, 2007
"Lovemusik" - A chronicle of the romance between Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, staring Donna Murphy and Michael Cerveris. Directed by Harold Prince, with songs by Weill. (Queens Village Times, NY)
Kurt & Lotte: A grown-up Broadway duet May 4, 2007
Unlike those other shows, which have original scores, this more traditional one uses the music of Kurt Weill to relate the unconventional love between the German composer and his muse, Lotte Lenya ... LOVEMUSIK. Music of Kurt Weill, with a book by Alfred Uhry. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Chris Manos takes Manhattan May 3, 2007
He said he d be back to Manhattan soon to see Atlanta-born playwright Alfred Uhry s LoveMusik, based on the love letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. Manos said he was asked if he would like to produce rock composer Duncan Sheik s Spring Awakening. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Musik to their ears Apr 29, 2007
Hal Prince and Alfred Uhry bring theater royalty to life with 'Lovemusik,' a tale of Kurt Weill's eccentric romance with Lotte Lenya ... April 29, 2007 'Lovemusik" is a new show with old music, about Kurt Weill, who wrote the songs, and Lotte Lenya, who sang them. It begins with the notion that their first moment together was a raunchy one. Weill, a pudgy Jewish composer in a three-piece suit, and Lenya, a streetwalker-turned-chanteuse whose voice came to embody the sound of Germany between the... (Newsday -- Entertainment)
'LoveMusik' leads Drama Desk nominations Apr 27, 2007
By Michael Kuchwara, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK LoveMusik, a look at the relationship between composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya, received 12 Drama Desk nominations Thursday, honoring the best of the 2006-2007 New York theater season. It was followed by three other musicals Curtains,Legally Blonde and Spring Awakening and one play, The Coast of Utopia. (USA Today -- Life)
'LoveMusik' tops Drama Desk Apr 27, 2007
LoveMusik,' Manhattan Theater Club's production about Kurt Weill, topped the Drama Desk Award noms with 12 ... The Manhattan Theater Club production of the new tuner about German composer Kurt Weill and his muse Lotte Lenya opens May 3. (Variety)
