#kurtweill — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/fi/347525/ Kolmen pennin ooppera Lahdessa – rakenteellisesta väkivallasta alustatalouden aikaan #BertoltBrecht #ElisabethHauptmann #Entertainment #FI #Finland #Finnish #KapakkaJenny #Kerjäläisooppera #KolmenPenninOoppera #KurtWeill #LahdenKaupunginteatteri #LauriMaijala #musiikkiteatteri #PuukkoMackie #Suomi #viihde
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"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" (German: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by #KurtWeill with lyrics by #BertoltBrecht for their 1928 music drama #TheThreepennyOpera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper). The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld named #Macheath, the "Mack the Knife" of the title.
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🇩🇪 Kurt Weill und Bertolt Brecht "Aus der Drei-Groschen-Oper" – 1956
The songs balance memorable melodies with biting social commentary, reflecting Brecht’s vision of theatre as both entertainment and critique. Weill’s distinctive harmonic language gives the music a timeless quality, effortlessly moving between elegance, irony, and emotional intensity...
#kurtweill #bertoltbrecht #cabaret #theatre #weimar #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
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Intonations Festival im Kühlhaus Berlin
Martha Argerich ist immer noch eine Naturgewalt. Was für Klangfarben, was für eine Technik und was für ein Sturm. Wahnsinn. Zu hören waren #Beethoven und #FritzKreisler (jeweils mit Violine).
Dann wundervolle armenische Lieder mit #AstrigSiranossian, die sich selbst auf dem Cello begleitete. Außerdem Lieder von #KurtWeill.
Und das atemberaubende Streichoktett Es-Dur von #Mendelssohn.
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Joachim A. Lang – „Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm“ (2018)Was für ein Fest für Brecht-Nerds und Film-Nerds gleichermaßen. Die „Dreigroschenoper“ in der Version von Joachim A. Lang ist ein Film, den Sie gesehen haben müssen. Selbst wenn er über meinen Horizont beizeiten hinausging, konnte ich was lernen und wurde göttlich unterhalten. (ARD, Wh.)
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Somehow or another, I am the first one to share this piece with the wider internet: Kurt Weill's Intermezzo (1917) … his only work for solo piano
https://youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=TEYxMrUxspi1B0Vu
#KurtWeill #Composer #Piano #Intermezzo #GavinGamboa #20thCentury #ClassicalMusic
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#MarianneFaithfull (1946- 2025)
Muse est le pire job du monde.
#Rock #UK #Music #Voice #Songwriter #Pop #KurtWeill #socialmedia #tv
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Ick sitze da un' esse Klops
uff eemal klopp’s
Ick kieke, staune, wundre mir,
uff eemal jeht se uff die Tür.
Nanu, denk ick, ick denk nanu
jetz isse uff, erst war se zu!
Ick jehe raus und kieke
und wer steht draußen? Icke! Icke! Icke!! -
Musical Interlude: I love this old Kurt Weill tune, no matter how odd the arrangement. Lotte Lenya's Latin-tinged version is lovely, and this modernist arrangement is also quite nice.
"Speak Low," performed by Ute Lemper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKjAmvUaomQ
#MusicalInterlude #UteLemper #KurtWeill #OneTouchOfVenus #ShowTunes
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'every grinning oaf with a borrowed hat has done it. Michael Buble, obviously. Robbie Williams. Even fucking Westlife, who, I imagine, stood up from their stools one at a time in time to mark each of the key changes, though not so much ratcheting up the tension than draining all remaining traces of it until the song lay pale and lifeless on the floor'
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Geschichten und Meer @diegnaedigefrauwundertsich.wordpress.com@diegnaedigefrauwundertsich.wordpress.com ·Aus der Nachbarschaft
Jahreswechsel, Böllerei, und Herr Solminore schimpft mit Recht.
Die Pressepfarrerin über social media.
Blognachbarin und Archäologin Miss Jones über das Lampedusa-Projekt.
Eine Übersicht über Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan.
Nicht aus der Blognachbarschaft, aber in seinen Frankfurter Zeiten waren wir fast Nachbarn: Wie spielst Du das, Manfred Zapatka. (Ja, auch meine Liebe zum Theater hat mit Manfred Zapatka in Frankfurt begonnen, und mit den Schüler- und Studentenkarten für fünf Mark.)
Dazu passt: Nina Hagen mit „Surabaya Johnny.“
Ich wünsche allen Leser_innen ein gutes neues Jahr.
#Afghanistan #Archäologie #BertoltBrecht #ElisabethHauptmann #Flucht #KurtWeill #Lampedusa #ManfredZapatka #NinaHagen #Silvester #Sizilien #SocialMedia
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Samstag, 6. 12. ab 20 Uhr in Garniers Keller (Institut Garnier 1) in #Friedrichsdorf. Einlass ab 19 Uhr.
Musikalische Grüße zum 125. Geburtstag von Kurt Weill bringen die Friedrichsdorfer Pianistin Bettina Höger-Loesch und die Sängerin Annette Jahr auf die Bühne.
Ein Kaleidoskop, das ein persönliches Licht wirft auf den Komponisten, Musiker und Menschen #KurtWeill.
https://garniers-keller.de/veranstaltungen/bettina-hoeger-loesch-und-annette-jahr-2/
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#nowplaying #radio3 #theproms #KurtWeill I like it with added extras.
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Musical Interlude: Hey, it's September! This song may be a cliche, but I have to do it. It has fond memories, and this is a pleasant rendition.
"September Song," performed by Daniel Hope & Ensemble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XpYjZwmKa0
#MusicalInterlude #DanielHope #KurtWeill #KnickerbockerHoliday #Jazz #Violin #ComfortMusic
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Musical Interlude: I listened to some Kurt Weill today. This song always haunts me, no matter what sort of rendition it's given. This instrumental, more than most.
"Youkali Tango," performed by the Armadillo String Quartet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKimXrLrn-s
#MusicalInterlude #ArmadilloStringQuartet #KurtWeill #Tango #Jazz
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Musical Interlude: Listened to some Kurt Weill today, and remembered this track from his wife, Lotte Lenya, a song I find immensely lovely and comforting all at once.
"Speak Low," performed by Lotte Lenya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jULhrwOmGOY
#MusicalInterlude #Jazz #KurtWeill #LotteLenya #OneTouchOfVenus #LoveSong
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(11/17) ... #Korngold, Erwin #Schulhoff, #KurtWeill Paul #Hindemith) + propagande antisémite #art 'Le Juif Eternel' (cf 1892 1928 1932 1933 1936 1937 1942 1943) -> annonce volonté extermination peuple juif.
=> Accords de Munich où France/UK/Italie permettent 3e Reich nazi annexer, dès le surlendemain, les Sudètes = entêtement France/UK dans leur politique d’«apaisement» interprété par Staline comme capitulation (cf Poutine 21ème ...
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A music break for sanity's sake... #music #TeresaStratas #KurtWeill #saynomore https://youtu.be/gHlIHyOglPY?si=nPu3hO11ma9NK69m
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Musical Interlude: Ever feel indecisive? Can't settle on something? Kurt Weill understood, and wrote a great justification for it. Here it is, by the great diva herself.
"The Saga of Jenny," performed by Lotte Lenya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oU7THKC5E
#MusicalInterlude #LotteLenya #KurtWeill #IraGershwin #LadyInTheDark #Broadway
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Kurt Weill (2 de Março de 1900 – 3 de Abril de 1950), compositor alemão e norte-americano.
🎶 Kurt Weill: September Song 🎶
Daniel Hope - violino -
Kurt Weill (2 de Março de 1900 – 3 de Abril de 1950), compositor judeu alemão.
🎶 Speak Low (1943) de e por Kurt Weill 🎶
Music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash.“Speak low when you speak love
Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon
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Kurt Weill, dancer on the tightrope between art and kitsch
On Wednesday 19 February, the Flemish ensembles Collegium Vocale Gent and Het Collectief present the programme In Exile at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ Amsterdam. They will perform music by eight composers who fled the Nazis to America in the 1930s. From Arnold Schoenberg to Hanns Eisler and from Bartók tot Kurt Weill – who passed away 75 years ago. In 2000 I wrote a portrait of Weill for a Dutch broadcasting magazine.
Amsterdam, January 2000
What do Kurt Weill and Johann Sebastian Bach have in common? They are the only two composers whose years of birth and death yours truly can recite without blinking an eye: ‘Bach, 1685-1750; Weill, 1900-1950’. Both composers are extensively commemorated in the jubilee year 2000.
Bach died 250 years ago. In the case of Weill, the commemoration knife cuts both ways: not only did he die 50 years ago, he was born 100 years ago. Still, the ripples that Weill’s appearance and demise draw will be considerably smaller than Bach’s: you won’t see Weill’s complete oeuvre offered at a discount price any time soon.
Footnote
While for many, Bach ranks as the greatest composer of all time, Weill has always remained a somewhat controversial figure. Although his name is mentioned in most music history books, this happens somewhat reluctantly. He acts as a footnote, as it were, to names like Hindemith, Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Yet Weill developed a compositional style all his own, which is immediately recognisable.
This did not come out of the blue, however, for like his colleagues, Weill was a child of his time. The First World War had dealt a blow to the belief in progress and the innate goodness of man. Artists sought new means of expression to articulate and depict their experienced horror.
People set themselves against romanticism, which had framed the world with a golden edge. Everyday life took centre stage, the harsh reality of the common man. Even more than in the previous century, people sought an outlet for their feelings. Thus the tormented figures in Edvard Munch’s paintings set the tone for the expressionist music of Arnold Schoenberg.
Wry oom-pah music
But unlike Schoenberg, who reasoned, regulated and translated his feelings into the intellectualist twelve-tone system, Weill sought his inspiration in dance music, jazz, oom-pah bands and cabaret. In complete contrast to Schoenberg, he increasingly emphasised triads. In doing so, he skilfully balanced on the tightrope between art and kitsch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUjGPrfA6U&ab_channel=HansFriedrichGunther
However, Weill’s oom-pa always has a bitter ring, the dance music is drenched in unadulterated despair and his rhythms stumble. His music is about the seamy side of life, about sex and drugs, poop and pee, in a one-to-one relationship, just like rock music. He captured this in unforgettable melodies, which understandably still hold great appeal for rock musicians.
Rough sound
Like Stravinsky, Weill turned away from the swooning string chords of the 19th century and used the much rawer brass instruments. If he used violins at all, it was percussive and without vibrato. When he used grand gestures from established operatic practice, these always had an ironic twist. Also, like his contemporaries, Weill rarely wrote for large orchestra. This preference for small ensembles stemmed partly from lack of money and partly from the need for new sounds. In addition to brass instruments and percussion, Weill also employed mandolins and guitars.
Although composers like Hindemith and the members of the French Groupe des Six also found inspiration in popular music, their work never has the rawness and directness of Weill’s pieces. Only Hanns Eisler and Paul Dessau come close with their aesthetics. And they too fall between the classical shore and the popular ship: too vulgar for the classical music world, too posh for the popular.
Cynical Zeitgeist
Yet there was a market for this kind of music in Germany in the 1920s: the famous 1928 Dreigroschenoper became a real blockbuster. Together with Bertold Brecht, who wrote the lyrics, Weill managed to strike just the right chord to engage the dejected German people, disheartened by the loss of face after World War I. Their cynical drama fitted the Zeitgeist, which Hitler, unfortunately, also understood perfectly.
The latter successfully cast himself as the saviour of the disillusioned Volk. When Brecht and (the Jewish) Weill staged their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in 1929, Hitler’s brown shirts were already pretty much in control. They disrupted the premiere in Leipzig with shouting and anti-Jewish pamphlets, and only thanks to a cordon of policemen could the performances take place at all.
In 1933, Weill and his wife Lotte Lenya fled to Paris and then to America. They were welcomed with open arms, but musically this proved to be a dead end. None of the many pieces he composed in America, such as Lost in the Stars, One Touch of Venus, or Knickerbocker Holiday, can even match what he wrote in Europe. In the land of unlimited possibilities, his music definitely tilted towards kitsch. Soaked in a sentimental Hollywood sauce, it lost its sourness and with it its essence.
Brecht and Weill: incompatible moods
This certainly has to do with the fact that Weill no longer collaborated with Brecht. Both created their strongest pieces in collaboration with each other, even though they did not actually fit together at all. Weill was an extremely gentle man, who lived only for music – he even accepted that his wife Lotte shared her bed with other men and women.
Brecht, on the other hand, was a despot, who saw himself as the centre of the world. He considered music to be totally subordinate to his texts and regularly accused Weill of drawing too much attention to his notes. While it was Weill’s thoughtful settings that made his words immortal. But perhaps it is precisely this incompatibility of moods that enabled them to create such gripping theatre.
Back to my question from the beginning. Listen to the fugal overture of Die Dreigroschenoper, or the many recitatives and chorales in Ozeanflug, and you will find that Weill has more in common with Bach than his easily remembered birth and death years.
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The absolutely epic Marianne Faithfull definitively laying down Brecht-Weill's "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife"
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A music break for sanity's sake #music #KurtWeill #TeresaStratas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l41HG61iYmg&list=LL&index=16
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#Montpellier #orchestre #opera #concert
Au Programme
#IgorStravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Symphonies d’instruments à vent#KurtWeill (1900 – 1950)
Das Berliner Requiem#Valentin Silvestrov (né en 1937)
Ode à un rossignol#SofiaGoubaïdoulina (née en 1931)
Rubayat#ArnoldSchoenberg (1874 – 1951)
Friede auf Erden opus 13vendredi 7 février
20h00samedi 8 février
20h00En décembre 1928, Kurt Weill répond à une commande de la Radio de Francfort afin de commémorer le dixième anniversaire de la Première Guerre mondiale. Contrairement à ce que son titre laisse penser, son Berliner Requiem (1928) sur des poèmes si forts sur la guerre de Bertolt Brecht, est une cantate totalement profane. Il ressort de l’ensemble une couleur sonore particulière au service de l’engagement artistique des deux artistes, en hommage à Rosa Luxemburg, figure centrale et pacifiste assassinée le 15 janvier 1919.
Cette œuvre est mise en regard avec les Symphonies d’instruments à vent de Stravinsky, mais aussi avec Friede auf Erden de Schoenberg, et la mystérieuse et magique cantate Ode à un rossignol (1985) de Valentin Silvestrov, patriarche de la musique ukrainienne. Cette musique de la suggestion dessine avec une infinie délicatesse, au moyen de sonorités fragiles et éphémères, ce mélange de nature, de paysages et de réflexion sur le destin esquissé par le poète anglais John Keats dont les premiers vers donnent toute la mesure de l’oeuvre : « Dans le noir, j’écoute ; oui, plus d’une fois j’ai été presque amoureux de la mort ».Un rendez-vous à ne pas manquer qui inaugure une manifestation annuelle en hommage aux artistes et compositeurs contraints à l’exil.
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For sanity's sake, a music break #music #kurtweill #TeresaStratas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLXqdPUMtv4
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« #LotteLenya. Pourquoi je souffre tant ? », sur #Arte.tv : la muse transatlantique du compositeur #KurtWeill https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/08/13/lotte-lenya-pourquoi-je-souffre-tant-sur-arte-tv-la-muse-transatlantique-du-compositeur-kurt-weill_6279686_3246.html
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"Entartete Musik" by Vlaams Radiokoor, Bart van Reyn, Estelle Lefort, Brussels Philharmonic https://songwhip.com/vlaamsradiokoor/entartete-musik
@classicalmusic
#VlaamsRadiokoor
#BartVanReyn
#EstelleLefort
#BrusselsPhilharmonic
#GustavMahler
#MishaSpoliansky
#ErwinSchulhoff
#KurtWeill
#AlmaMahlerWerfel
#IlseWeber
#HannsEisler
#ViktorUllmann
#GideonKlein
#CarloSiegmundTaube -
"Entartete Musik" by Vlaams Radiokoor, Bart van Reyn, Estelle Lefort, Brussels Philharmonic https://songwhip.com/vlaamsradiokoor/entartete-musik
@classicalmusic
#VlaamsRadiokoor
#BartVanReyn
#EstelleLefort
#BrusselsPhilharmonic
#GustavMahler
#MishaSpoliansky
#ErwinSchulhoff
#KurtWeill
#AlmaMahlerWerfel
#IlseWeber
#HannsEisler
#ViktorUllmann
#GideonKlein
#CarloSiegmundTaube -
"Entartete Musik" by Vlaams Radiokoor, Bart van Reyn, Estelle Lefort, Brussels Philharmonic https://songwhip.com/vlaamsradiokoor/entartete-musik
@classicalmusic
#VlaamsRadiokoor
#BartVanReyn
#EstelleLefort
#BrusselsPhilharmonic
#GustavMahler
#MishaSpoliansky
#ErwinSchulhoff
#KurtWeill
#AlmaMahlerWerfel
#IlseWeber
#HannsEisler
#ViktorUllmann
#GideonKlein
#CarloSiegmundTaube -
"Entartete Musik" by Vlaams Radiokoor, Bart van Reyn, Estelle Lefort, Brussels Philharmonic https://songwhip.com/vlaamsradiokoor/entartete-musik
@classicalmusic
#VlaamsRadiokoor
#BartVanReyn
#EstelleLefort
#BrusselsPhilharmonic
#GustavMahler
#MishaSpoliansky
#ErwinSchulhoff
#KurtWeill
#AlmaMahlerWerfel
#IlseWeber
#HannsEisler
#ViktorUllmann
#GideonKlein
#CarloSiegmundTaube -
"Entartete Musik" by Vlaams Radiokoor, Bart van Reyn, Estelle Lefort, Brussels Philharmonic https://songwhip.com/vlaamsradiokoor/entartete-musik
@classicalmusic
#VlaamsRadiokoor
#BartVanReyn
#EstelleLefort
#BrusselsPhilharmonic
#GustavMahler
#MishaSpoliansky
#ErwinSchulhoff
#KurtWeill
#AlmaMahlerWerfel
#IlseWeber
#HannsEisler
#ViktorUllmann
#GideonKlein
#CarloSiegmundTaube
