Kurt Weill was a leading composer for both the stage and concert hall. His works, active from the 1920s onward, are known for their distinctive blend of musical styles and potent dramatic force. Weill's compositions often reflect the social and political climate of their eras, continuing to resonate with readers for their emotional depth and innovative approach to composition.
(P/V/G Composer Collection). A fabulous collection of this composer's songs, both from his German period and his later years in America. Features: Mack the Knife * September Song * My Ship * Speak Low * Lost in the Stars * many more.
Contains the edited letters of Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill. Their tortured relationship fuelled their individual geniuses - he wrote his best music for her and her singing was its most impassioned when she sang his songs.
This collection features easy arrangements of 17 songs, each accompanied by a vocal line. Accompanying the music are stills from the renowned 1931 film adaptation of the opera, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, which adds a visual dimension to the experience.
One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
Als Angriff auf die Institution der traditionellen und "kulinarischen" Oper sucht Brecht am Modell eines Amüsierbetriebes für Goldgräber, bei dem man, wenn man Geld hat, "alles dürfen darf", das Wesen der spätkapitalistischen Gesellschaft zu erläutern. Kunstkritik und Gesellschaftskritik stehen nebeneinander.
Kurt Weill ; Hrsg. Mit E. Vorw. Von David Drew ; [das Vorw., Die Aufsätze Über Komposition U. Lunch Time Follies Sowie D. Anm. übers. Josef Heinzelmann Aus D. Engl.]. Includes Index.
