Showing posts with label Kurt Weill. Show all posts
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Friday, February 10, 2023

Bertolt Brecht 125 -- February 10, 2023

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Playwright and theatrical director Bertolt Brecht was born 125 yeats ago, on 10-February-1898. He was a pioneer of epic theater, which tried to make the audience experience alienation. He collaborated on musicals with Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. He talked to the House Un-American Activities Committee, denying that he had ever been a communist.



Mack The Knife

 

Lotte Lenya Singing "Seeräuber Jenny" (Pirate Jenny)

 

ALABAMA SONG

Monday, December 6, 2021

Ira Gershwin 125 -- December 6, 2021

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Lyricist Ira Gershwin was born 125 years ago today, on 06-December-1896. He was one of the masters of the English language. He wrote many standards with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin. George died at 38, but Ira lived to be 86. After George died, Ira worked with other composers, including Kurt Weill, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern.