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Weill, Kurt (Julian)
Weill, Kurt (Julian) (b Dessau, 2 March 1900; d New York, 3 April 1950). German composer, American citizen from 1943. He was one of the outstanding composers in the generation that came to maturity after World War I, and a key figure in the development of modern forms of musical theatre. His successful and innovatory work for Broadway during the 1940s was a development in more popular terms of the exploratory stage works that had made him the foremost avant- garde theatre composer of the Weimar Republic. 1. Life. Weill‟s father Albert was chief cantor at the synagogue in Dessau from 1899 to 1919 and was himself a composer, mostly of liturgical music and sacred motets. Kurt was the third of his four children, all of whom were from an early age taught music and taken regularly to the opera. Despite its strong Wagnerian emphasis, the Hoftheater‟s repertory was broad enough to provide the young Weill with a wide range of music-theatrical experiences which were supplemented by the orchestra‟s subscription concerts and by much domestic music-making. Weill began to show an interest in composition as he entered his teens. By 1915 the evidence of a creative bent was such that his father sought the advice of Albert Bing, the assistant conductor at the Hoftheater. Bing was so impressed by Weill‟s gifts that he undertook to teach him himself. For three years Bing and his wife, a sister of the Expressionist playwright Carl Sternheim, provided Weill with what almost amounted to a second home and introduced him a world of metropolitan sophistication. -
Program Notes London Sinfonietta June 12-13, 1977
Kurt Weill, Tango Angèle Angèle is de naam van de knappe Parijse fotog rafe uit Weill's opera buffa in één akte "Der Zar läs t sich nic ht photographieren". Vl ak voordat de Tsaar in haar studio arriveert wordt Angèle ontvoerd door een groep samenzweerders; er wordt een pse udo-Angèle geïntroduceerd di e echter de snode opdracht heeft de Tsaar te vermoorden tijdens zijn poseren voor de fotocamera. Maar .... wanneer de Tsaar binnenkomt blijkt hij helemaa l geen tyran en geen monster maar veeleer een demokraat en een pacifi st di e het hele gedoe van het keizerlijk huis en koninklijke hoogheid als een vervelende klucht be chouwt en die niets li ever dan een gewone stervelin g zou zijn . Hij begint bovendien de pseudo-Angèle te verleid en. Angèle's list met de grammofoonplaat en haar voorwendsel - wat eigenlijk amper een voorwendsel is - om met de Tsaar op de divan te kruipen wordt achterhaald door het nieuws dat de politie het komplot heeft ontdekt. De grammofoonopname van het Dobbri-Saxophoon Orkest werd onder supervisie van Weill gemaakt in 1927 in Berlijn en is tijdens alle produkties van de opera gebruikt. Kurt Weill, Alabama-Song De " Aiabama-Song" vormt een onderdeel van het "Mahagonny-Songspiel", dat op 18 juni 1927 in Baden-Baden in première ging, onder regie van o.a. Brecht en met Lotte Lenya als één van de vokalisten. De programmatoelichting zegt: Weill kondigt in dit stuk, zoals vele kunstenaars van deze tijd dat ieder op hun eigen wijze doen, het einde van de burgerlijke kunstvormen aan. -
Kurt Weill Foundation
Introduction and Notes by David Drew Whether you care to mention Weill in the same breath prominently among the modern poets in a family library it is to have any kind of raison d'etre. The thoroughly as Hindemith or as Hollander, as Copland or as Cole where the works of Goethe and Heine, of Johann un-topical representation of our times which would result Porter; whether you see him as an outstanding German Gottfried von Herder and Moses Mendelssohn, had pride from such a change of direction must be supported by composer who somehow lost his voice when he settled of place, and where, no doubt, one could have found a strong conviction, whether it uses an earlier epoch in America, or as an outstanding Broadway composer some of the writings of Eduard Bernstein , if not of (the to mirror aspects of present-day life or whether it finds who somehow contrived to write a hit-show called " The young?) Marx, and perhaps even a crumpled copy of a unique, definitive and timeless form for present-day Threepenny Opera" during his otherwise obscure and the Erfurt Programme of 1891 . phenomena. The absence of inner and outer complica probably misspent Berlin youth ; whether you disagree Unlike Brecht, Weill never needed to repudiate his early tions (in the material and in the means of expression) with both these views and either find evidence of a strik- backg round in order to define his artistic functions and is in keeping with the more naive disposition of the ingly original mind at all stages in his career (but at some objectives. -
The Art of Lotte Lenya E WEILL the Threepenny Opera " Foreign " to Everything- She Is the Complete Nihilist
PHILIPS ;tS, Export No. 409 120 AE ABE 10118. ~ ----~------------- The Art of Lotte Lenya e WEILL The Threepenny Opera " foreign " to everything- she is the complete nihilist. Moritat and Barbara-Song As she sings this song, she and her companions are Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny making their way to Mahagonny, the " City of Nets". Alabama-Song Mahagonny has been founded as a false paradise for rhe discontented. There, in the pursuit of worthless pleasures, Happy-End they will discover their own private hells. The Alabama Bilbao-Song Song precedes the tragic events of the opera, but in its Lotte Lenya, soprano contrast of moon-struck nostalgia and vicious declama Orchestra conducted by Roger Bean tion it already contains a prophesy. The Threepenny Opera- Moritat and Barbara-Song Happy-End-Bilbao-Song The premiere of The Threepenny Opera in Berlin on Happy End was an indirect sequel to The Threepenny August 31st, 1928 was one of the great events in the Opera, and survives today (in several recent productions) history of modern theatre. The work enjoyed a huge chiefly on account of its masterly score. The Bilbao-Song public success throughout the world, and established a is a half-humorous half-wistful cameo, in Brecht's form of musical theatre which continued to influence Kiplingesque manner. The singer tells of a broken-down other composers and writers even after the Nazis banned old Dance Hall which, for all its shabbiness, seemed the all the works of Weill and Brecht (Weill's collaborator). most beautiful in the world. She recalls the tune which The Threepenny Opera shows how in an unjust society used to be played on a tinny piano. -
“Off to Mahagonny”
“Off to Mahagonny” Kim Kowalke Kim Kowalke, President of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music in New York Kim Kowalke, President of the Kurt Weill Foundation in New York, explains the history, reception, and performance issues of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]. Weill and Brecht’s “epic opera,” though less frequently performed than Die Dreigroschenoper, has nevertheless had an extraordinarily rich but problematic performance history. During Weill’s lifetime there was no definitive version of Mahagonny, with the so-called Paris, Berlin, and Vienna versions all being adaptations of either the Songspiel (1927) or the full-length opera (1930). Tell us about the performance history of Mahagonny during Weill’s lifetime. Kowalke: In Weill’s lifetime Mahagonny never had a chance to establish itself, largely because of the political situation. Universal Edition published a piano- vocal score prior to its première on 9 March 1930 in Leipzig with Gustav Brecher conducting. A few days later Maurice Abravanel conducted it in Kassel. That summer George Szell led it in Prague, and in October Wilhelm Steinberg conducted twelve performances in Frankfurt. By then, however, all the possibilities for the Berlin opera houses had fallen through. Even Klemperer declared it “immoral” and therefore too risky for the erstwhile adventurous Kroll. Finally Ernst Josef Aufricht, who had commercially produced both The Threepenny Opera and Happy End in Berlin, did it at the Kurfürstendamm Theatre. So its first production in Berlin wasn’t even at an opera house, but it did enjoy a run there of some fifty performances. -
MEMORABLE SELECTIONS from CURRENT REVIEWS CULLED from OUR CLIPPING SERVICES German-To-English Translations by Lys Symonette and William Madison
MEMORABLE SELECTIONS FROM CURRENT REVIEWS CULLED FROM OUR CLIPPING SERVICES German-to-English Translations by Lys Symonette and William Madison LONDON SINFONIETTA: "BEANFEST:' 16 APRIL 1985 Although the performance of Di,e sieben Todsunden was rather conventional (the Anna l was weak; the male quartet was excel . So how is [ the Mahagonny Songspie/ ] to be put across to a lent), the audience rewarded it with its heartiest applause; the first 1985 British audience? David Alden, who produced, and David half comprised the bitter satire of the Requiem and the evil bur Fielding, who designed, had no doubts at all. Lots of crude sexual lesque of "Pantomime I.'' jokes (an inflatable lifesize rubber doll, for instance), lots of din, a pair of giant anti-Thatcher posters with movable pound and dollar Elisabeth Bauschmid signs to replace the lady's eyes, [ conductor] Simon Rattle with a Suddeutsche Zeitung toy rocket pointlessly strapped to his back, lots of repetition, and let Munich the music shift for itself. 12 June 1985 The repetition was the most startling element, and in a way the most interesting. A dispirited woman, with a child on a table beside "NEW YORK PRAISES GISELA MAY" her, began the proceedings by intoning "I like it. .. I like it. .. I like it With stormy applause and cries of bravo the audience of the Per ..." one or two hundred times. Though I didn't count, I don't think 1 forming Arts Center of the State University of New York at Pur exaggerate; if I were simply to transcribe her part on this page, my chase honored the actress and singer Gisela May. -
The Three Penny Opera
Kurt Weill Born on the 2nd of March, 1900 in Dessau, Germany, the son of a cantor, Weill displayed THE THREE musical talent early on. By the time he was twelve, he was composing and mounting concerts and dramatic works in the hall above his family's quarters in the Gemeindehaus. After studying theory and composition, Weill enrolled PENNY OPERA at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, but found the conservative training and the infrequent lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck too stifling. After a season as conductor of the newly formed municipal theater in Lüdenscheid, he returned to Berlin and was accepted into Ferruccio Busoni's master class in composition. By 1925, a series of performances in Berlin and at international music festivals established Weill as one of the leading composers of his generation. A commission from the Baden-Baden Music Festival in 1927 led to the creation of Mahagonny (Ein Songspiel) , Weill's first collaboration with Brecht. The succès de scandale of Mahagonny encouraged Weill and Brecht to continue work on a full-length opera. Exploiting their aggressive popular song-style, Weill and Brecht also wrote several works for singing actors in the commercial theater, including Die Dreigroschenoper and Happy End . The music Music is very strongly present in The Threepenny Opera . The play's By Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht score is strongly influenced by jazz. “The Ballad of Mackie Messer,” later translated into “Mack the Knife,” became the play's most well known song. It was written at the last minute because the actor playing I was aroused straightaway by the raw intensity of the Macheath threatened to quit if his character did not receive a proper songs .. -
KURT WEILLWEILL EDITION Vol
KURTKURT WEILLWEILL EDITION Vol. 2 AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY (THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY) DER ZAR LÄSST SICH PHOTOGRAPHIEREN (THE TSAR HAS HIS PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN) DER KUHHANDEL (SHADY DEALING ) • HAPPY END KÖLNER RUNDFUNKORCHESTER • KÖNIG-ENSEMBLE JAN LATHAM-KÖNIG KURT WEILL (1900 - 1950) AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY Oper in 3 Akten / Opera in three acts Text: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) Leokadja Begbick ................................................................................... ANNY SCHLEMM Fatty .............................................................................................THOMAS LEHRBERGER der „Prokurist“ / „The Bookkeeper“ Dreieinigkeitsmoses / Trinity Moses.......................................................... KLAUS HIRTE Jenny Smith .....................................................................................................ANJA SILJA Jim Mahoney / Jim MacIntyre ....................................................WOLFGANG NEUMANN Jakob Schmidt / Jack O’Brien ............................................................ FREDERIC MAYER Bill ........................................................................................................... PAUL WOLFRUM genannt „Sparbüchsenbill“ / nicknamed „Bank-account Bill“ Joe ............................................................................................................HANS FRANZEN genannt „Alaskawolfjoe“ / nicknamed „Alaska-Wolf Joe“ Tobby Higgins ..................................................................................... -
Brecht's a Short Organum for the Theatre
A Short Organum for the Theatre Bertolt Brecht (1948) PROLOGUE aesthetic concepts enough weapons to defend them- selves against the aesthetics of the Press they sim- HE following sets out to define an aesthetic ply threatened ’to transform the means of enjoyment drawn from a particular kind of theatrical per- T into an instrument of instruction, and to convert cer- formance which has been worked out in practice tain amusement establishments into organs of mass over the past few decades. In the theoretical state- communication’ (’Notes to the opera Mahagonny’ ments, excursions, technical indications occasion- — [see No. 13]): i.e. to emigrate from the realm of ally published in the form of notes to the writer’s the merely enjoyable. Aesthetics, that heirloom of a plays, aesthetics have only been touched on casu- by now depraved and parasitic class, was in such a ally and with comparative lack of interest. There lamentable state that a theatre would certainly have you saw a particular species of theatre extending or gained both in reputation and in elbowroom if it contracting its social functions, perfecting or sifting had rechristened itself thaeter. And yet what we its artistic methods and establishing or maintaining achieved in the way of theatre for a scientific age its aesthetics — if the question arose — by reject- was not science but theatre, and the accumulated in- ing or converting to its own use the dominant con- novations worked out during the Nazi period and ventions of morality or taste according to its tactical the war — when practical demonstration was im- needs. -
Bertolt Brecht - Poems
Classic Poetry Series Bertolt Brecht - poems - Publication Date: 2012 Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive Bertolt Brecht(10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble — the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel. <b>Life and Career</b> Bavaria (1898–1924) Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, (about 50 miles (80 km) north- west of Munich) to a conventionally-devout Protestant mother and a Catholic father (who had been persuaded to have a Protestant wedding). His father worked for a paper mill, becoming its managing director in 1914. Thanks to his mother's influence, Brecht knew the Bible, a familiarity that would impact on his writing throughout his life. From her, too, came the "dangerous image of the self-denying woman" that recurs in his drama. Brecht's home life was comfortably middle class, despite what his occasional attempt to claim peasant origins implied. At school in Augsburg he met Caspar Neher, with whom he formed a lifelong creative partnership, Neher designing many of the sets for Brecht's dramas and helping to forge the distinctive visual iconography of their epic theatre. When he was 16, the First World War broke out. Initially enthusiastic, Brecht soon changed his mind on seeing his classmates "swallowed by the army". -
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Brecht in Britain
Brecht in Britain a display from the University of Bristol Theatre Collection Brecht in Bristol Turandot. University of Bristol Department of Drama 1987. Director: Günter Berghaus Baal. Phoenix 1963. (William Gaskill) Starring Peter O’Toole & Harry Andrews Berliner Ensemble at the Palace Theatre 1956. This visit, along with George Devine’s production of The Good Woman of Setzuan and Sam Wanamaker’s of The Threepenny Opera, sparked off a wave of interest in Brecht, ironically at the same time as his death. The Caucasian Chalk Circle. RSC Aldwych 1962. (William Gaskill) Starring Roy Dotrice The Days of the Commune. RSC Aldwych 1977. (Howard Davies) Starring Alfred Molina National Theatre productions, and the 1965 visit of the Berliner Ensemble Edward II. 1968. (Frank Dunlop) Starring John Stride The Life of Galileo. Mermaid 1960. Directed by & starring Bernard Miles Schweyk in the Second World War. 1982. (Richard James) Starring Bill Paterson The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. 1991. (Di Trevis) Starring Antony Sher The Threepenny Opera. 1986 (Peter Wood) Starring Tim Curry The Life of Galileo. 1980 (John Dexter) Starring Michael Gambon The Good Person of Sichuan. 1989. (Deborah Warner) Starring Fiona Shaw The Good Woman of Setzuan. Royal Court 1977. (Keith Hack) Starring Janet Suzman. Originally produced at the University Theatre, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. With review from The Daily Telegraph The Good Person of Szechwan. Greenwich 1977. (David Thompson) All male cast starring Paul Alexander The Good Woman of Setzuan. Royal Court 1956. (George Devine) Starring Peggy Ashcroft, with review from Punch & article by Kenneth Tynan Happy End. Royal Court 1965.