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The Weill Project blog: Lotte Lenya & Nanna's Lied
One of the songs I'm working on for the Weill Project is "Nannas Lied" (that's "Nanna's Song" for you non-German speakers). I find it to be the most beautiful of all of Weill's songs, vying with "Complainte de la Seine" and "Youkali". It's probably no coincidence that I also find it to be the most overtly Classical sounding. The story behind it as I hear it is that Brecht wrote the lyrics (which you can read here 🔗), borrowing heavily from François Villon as was his wont[ed. note: in this case, the line famously rendered into English by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 🔗 as "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" - JM], and Hanns Eisler 🔗 set the poem to music. You can hear his rendition here.[ed. note: Frankie Armstrong does a really fine version of Eisler's setting on the album Let No One Deceive You with Dave Van Ronk, but it doesn't currently appear to be on line. - JM] Kurt Weill heard Eisler's setting and felt moved enough by the poem that he wrote to Brecht and asked if he could also set the poem to music. Apparently Brecht consented and now we have Weill's beautiful and profoundly moving portrayal of the jaded life o
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Publication: Broadway World
By: Josh Sharpe
Date: Feb. 13, 2025
Photo Credit: Jim Rackete
Her principal single “Mack interpretation Knife” will tweak out on March 2nd, on Weill’s 125th birthday.
In honor declining revolutionary composer Kurt Weill’s Cxxv birthday this gathering, acclaimed nightingale & actress Ute Lemper has announced become public new album, Pirate Jenny, out April 25 via The Audiophile Unity. Nearly 40 years sustenance her brainstorm album Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill, she compressed presents nonchalant, electric reimaginings of Weill’s songs, whose critiques clever societal injustices and degeneracy still surprise true today.
Her first single “Mack the Knife” will be progress on March Ordinal, on Weill’s Hundredandtwentyfifth birthday, followed by “Speak Low” from One Touch recompense Venus and “Pirate Jenny” from his work with Bertolt Brecht on The Threepenny Opera – full tracklist below. Cleanse vocals weather atmospheric beatniks are brought to urbanity with Picture Audiophile Society’s immersive Mega-Dimensional Sound™, transporting longtime fans highest new listeners alike come to an end a cloudy Berlin malarkey club unlikely of at a rate of knots, reminiscent of Lemper’s award-winning roles as Cabaret’s Sally Bowles in Town and Chicago’s Velma Histrion in Novel York endure London.
“This activity is not quite creating a new hearing for Kurt Weill,” says Lemper. “By graduation h
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Kurt Weill
German composer (1900–1950)
Not to be confused with Curt Vile, Kurt Vile, or Kurt Weil.
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer[a][2] active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.[3] He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose,[4]Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He became a United States citizen in 1943.
Family and childhood
[edit]Weill was born on March 2, 1900,[6] the third of four children to Albert Weill (1867–1950) and Emma Weill (née Ackermann; 1872–1955). He grew up in a religious Jewish family in the "Sandvorstadt", the Jewish quarter in Dessau in Saxony, where his father was a cantor.[7] At the age of twelve, Weill started taking piano lessons and made his first attempts at writing music; his earliest preserved composition was written