Brecht/Weill..Lotta Lenya/Ute Lemperer.

Waverley_Hills_Hiker

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Sun May-30-04 08:19 PM
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Brecht/Weill..Lotta Lenya/Ute Lemperer.

Funny that im posting on these Led Zep, Dead, and Ohio Players threads...but what am I listening to......cabaret music from the Wiemar Republic, in German.

Listening to Ute Lemperer singing some Kurt Weill standards, and have Lotte Lenya cued up to do the same (Lenya does it better, i think...after all she really did sing these songs back then, and was marrie dto Weill).

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Whitacre D_WI

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Sun May-30-04 08:21 PM
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1. As far as I'm concerned, Brecht is right up there with Goethe and Rilke.

When it comes to German lyric poetry.

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mitchum

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Sun May-30-04 09:28 PM
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9. I prefer him over Goethe and Rilke...

Edited on Sun May-30-04 09:29 PM by mitchum

and I usually come down on the side of the "high" over the "low" when they're pitted against one another.

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Kellanved

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Sun May-30-04 08:22 PM
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2. good choice - do you have a Comedian Harmonists CD as well?

Edited on Sun May-30-04 08:22 PM by Kellanved

:hi:

The Weimar Republic had so much potential...

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Waverley_Hills_Hiker

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Sun May-30-04 08:31 PM
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4. No, but I have the movie!

I didn't know there was a CD out, too. The movie was quite good!

The Lotte Lenya CD I have is really interesting as it has Weills German
and Amerircan work...his collaborations with Brecht, and then his American work.

So one can see how he transferred his music over to American musicals. The lyrics for some of these are by some well-known US writers, like Ogden Nash and Langston Hughes, which was suprsing for me as I didn't know they wrote musicals.

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Kellanved

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Sun May-30-04 08:34 PM
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6. not just one CD

The movie tells a real story. The music in the Movie is actually real Comedian Harmonists music, but only a very small selection.

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SheWhoMustBeObeyed

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Sun May-30-04 08:31 PM
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3. Dagmar Krause as well

She did an album full of Brecht/Weill and Eisler songs, "Supply and Demand," accompanied by such musicians as Richard Thompson. It was pretty nice.

But you're right, nobody better at it than Lenya.

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Waverley_Hills_Hiker

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Sun May-30-04 08:33 PM
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5. I would like to get some Eisler songs.

I've heard of him, and would be interested to hear some of his work.

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Sun May-30-04 08:38 PM
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7. They're the perfect Weimar Republic songs

:-)

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Waverley_Hills_Hiker

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Sun May-30-04 08:45 PM
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8. Whats also interesting is how "40s America" they are.

The work Weill did in the USA is fascinating as he transfers his music to the US context, but the lyrics become American.

Of course one loses those Brecht lyrics, but then, Langston Hughes and Ogden Nash are good writers, and witty too.

This is all pre-rock, but its just an interesting cross cultural thing going on.

You sort of saw it in Billy Wilders movies, too, which are somewhat contemporary with these musicals...the translation of a sort of European sensibilty to American pop culture.

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