Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years...
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Play Kurt Weill may refer to: The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill, 1991 album by the Young Gods Tethered Moon Play Kurt Weill, 1995 album by Tethered Moon...
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Lotte Lenya (category Kurt Weill)
best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for...
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Mack the Knife (category Songs with music by Kurt Weill)
Knife" (German: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny...
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Alabama Song (category Songs with music by Kurt Weill)
his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny. It was reused for the 1930 opera Rise...
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works of the German, and later American, composer Kurt Weill (1900–1950). Der Weg der Verheißung, Kurt Weill Foundation Playbill for Railroads on Parade, 1939...
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Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is a 1985 tribute album to German-American composer Kurt Weill. It was executive-produced by Hal Willner and...
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1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed...
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German composer Kurt Weill, it is his real birth name and the similarity to Weill's name is a coincidence. At the age of fourteen, Kurt Vile was given...
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in the mid-80s, Kurt Weill became an important influence on Waits's work. Bowman writes that "Waits had become interested in Weill's late-1920s and 1930s...
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The Threepenny Opera (category Operas by Kurt Weill)
The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much, if any, contribution Hauptmann...
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by Kipling's family. Bertolt Brecht's "Mandalay Song", set to music by Kurt Weill, alludes to the poem. The Mandalay referred to in this poem was the sometime...
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Firebrand of Florence, a Kurt Weill musical making its Broadway debut. This proved to be the start of a new career as Weill's musical assistant: from that...
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Nazi war criminal Kurt Warburton, English mixed martial arts fighter Kurt Warner (born 1971), American football player Kurt Weill (1900–1950), German-American...
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Music (1928) - By Kurt Weill - Performed by Canadian Chamber Ensemble The Cannon Song from Little Threepenny Music (1928) - By Kurt Weill - Performed by...
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The Kurt Weill Centre is a cultural site in Dessau, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a museum and information centre about the life and work of the composer...
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September Song (category Songs with music by Kurt Weill)
"September Song" is an American standard popular song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. It was introduced by Walter Huston in the...
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Kurt Weill is a cover album released by Swiss Industrial band The Young Gods. The album comprises interpretations of pieces by German composer Kurt Weill...
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number of compilation albums, including tributes to Vic Chesnutt and Kurt Weill, and participated in a 1994 Christmas concert with Holly Cole, Rebecca...
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Speak Low (category Songs with music by Kurt Weill)
"Speak Low" (1943) is a popular song composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Ogden Nash. It was introduced by Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in the Broadway...
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A Kurt Weill Cabaret was a Broadway and off-Broadway production featuring the music of Kurt Weill. A precursor, The World of Kurt Weill in Song, opened...
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WDR Big Band (section Orchestra Kurt Edelhagen)
2002: Colours of Siam, Thorsten Wollmann Dedalo, Gianluigi Trovesi 2000: Kurt Weill – American Songs, Caterina Valente WDR Bigband, Jan Klare/Eckard Koltermann...
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productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Faithfull's mother had been born in Budapest and moved to Vienna in 1918...
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death in 1937. Ira wrote additional hit songs with composers Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harry Warren and Harold Arlen. His critically acclaimed 1959 book Lyrics...
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We Will Never Die (category Compositions by Kurt Weill)
by Nazi Germany. Composer Kurt Weill and producer Moss Hart immediately volunteered to help in any way they could, with Weill stating, "Please count on...
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cast recording, 1983) Ute Lemper singt Kurt Weill (1987) Life is a Cabaret (1987) Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill (1988) Starlight Express (original German...
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Shostakovich, and Carl Orff; and jazz, experimental and minimalist composers Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, Harry Partch, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley...
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (category Operas by Kurt Weill)
Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht. It was first performed on 9 March...
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appeared in the musical revue Here Lies Jenny which featured songs by Kurt Weill sung and danced by Neuwirth and a four-person supporting cast, as part...
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Happy End (musical) (category Musicals by Kurt Weill)
Happy End is a three-act musical comedy by Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Bertolt Brecht which first opened in Berlin at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm...
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