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German author, opera singer and writer (1877-1945)
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2017-11-09 13:47:24
Unknown Kurt Weill Song Surfaces In Berlin
"The piece, 'Lied vom weissen Käse' ('Song of the White Cheese') - which was written for a Weimar-era musical revue and sung by the actress Lotte Lenya, Weill's wife - was recently found in an archive unrelated to Weill at the Free University of Berlin and is the most significant discovery of the composer’s music […]
2017-11-07 09:03:00
Kurt Weill's bite is back as a lost song resurfaces
The lost manuscript, recovered...Credit: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Theatre Studies, Theatre History Collections, Gerda Schaefer papers 1931, Berlin. It's the depression, the Nazis are in the ascendency and the composer Kurt Weill is at the height of his powers. For a political revue to benefit unemployed actors of the Berlin Volksbühne, he creates a song entitled 'Lied vom weißen Käse'. In it, a blind girl tells of a phoney evangelical preacher's attempts to heal her using white cheese - represented by a Lutheran chorale - and concludes that it might be better if everyone were blind so that they couldn't see what was happening in the world.The lyrics, by Günther Weisenborn, satirise the methods of a notorious Berlin faith-healer, Joseph Weißenberg. Lotte Lenya, for whom the song was written, remembered its existence, and began looking for it in the 1960s, without luck. "Nowhere to be found. Probably buried […]
2013-12-29 16:35:17
Austin Kase is an experienced stage and screen actor, having performed onstage in multiple productions at Philadelphia's Walnut St. Theatre, in New York as part of a series of staged readings with Music Theater International, and in a number of television commercials.
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