Well, I guess I'd better get busy and go listen
to Der Kuhhandel! Anyway, I would guess that Die
B"urgschaft is closer in style to Der Kuhhandel because of
the time in which it was written (I hear some
correspondences with the 7 Deadly Sins in Die B"urgschaft, for
instance). However, Die B"urgschaft is very definitely opera
(i.e., almost entirely sung), not an operetta such as
Der Kuhhandel.<br><br>--John

Sorry, no.  I never got into comics.

Death.<br><br>Do you, by any chance, like comics? Have you read "The Sandman"?

Hello, Sergei-great to have you join us! It's
been a while since I got anything "new" of Weill's
("new" as in rarely heard), but I shall be happy to
check out Die Burgschaft...Musically, is it closer to
Der Kuhhaendel, or Der Zar lasst sich
photographieren?<br><br>Tis important-I like my basic melodic Weill basically
melodic...eh, a philistine...<br><br> Best regards...Sanya

I was wowed by Anne Sophie von Otter's Weill
album with John Eliot Gardiner (DG). It includes the
best version of Die sieben Tods"unden I've every
heard. Why? Because it is all sung, and beautifully, as
opposed to half spoken in the manner of Lenya or Gisela
May.<br><br>However, Otter's singing is not unduly "operatic"--her
delivery of Berlin _and_ Broadway theater songs on the
same CD is very effective.

Hi! Brand new member here. I was happy to find a
Weill club. Thanks to the boss for creating
it!<br><br>I sing bass with the Riverside Choral Society, a
choir which participated in the Wall-to-Wall Weill
celebration. We did some of the same works performed that day
on our concert May 13. Check our website
(<a href=http://www.riversidechoral.org/concerts.html
target=new>http://www.riversidechoral.org/concerts.html</a>) for a listing of
the program and a link to the
program notes I wrote for the concert.<br><br>Anyway, I
just wanted to alert you all to a wonderful "new" work
by Weill. I have a friend at the Kurt Weill
Foundation who sent me an advance copy of a new EMI CD of
Weill's 1930 opera _Die_B"urgschaft_, as recorded at last
summer's Spoleto USA festival in Charleston, SC. This is
such amazingly wonderful music, I can't stop listening
to it! And the total effect of the music and the
drama is devastating--social consciousness with a big
heart. I also loved reading Kim Kowalke's notes in the
CD booklet (I'm so sorry his book
_Kurt_Weill_in_Europe_ is out-of-print--at least you can still check it
out from the library).<br><br>Anyway, I look forward
to more Weill posts. I'll try to make sure future
postings from me won't be this long!

Oh, okAAAAAAAAy!<br><br>BTW, yes. I particularly DIDN'T like the Tango Ballad,
too.  :-)

I have Punishing Kiss now!!!!<br><br>I bought it
last night (Tuesday).<br><br>I am fairly impressed
with it, actually. Nick Cave's song, of course, is the
best... but the only song that actually disappointed me
was... now get this... the lone Weill/Brecht song! Tango
Ballad was really badly done.<br><br>Aside from that...
huzzah for Ms. Lemper!

So... where were we... Ah-nobody said a word
about the new Ute CD, except me...and I was more or
less disappointed... What's with that? Did you others
like it? Hate it? Buy it at all? <br><br>And how's the
weather, wherever you are?

Woooo! Mackie Messer hisself in our midst!
:-)<br><br>Thanks for asking, death-nothing's seriously wrong, just
ol' life rushing in when I'd rather be lying on my
back watching the clouds go by (to mix-and-paraphrase
Virginia, Marianne and, Peanuts, if I'm not
mistaken...)<br><br>By the way, I'll be away Tue-Sat, so don't nobody go
callin' the po-lice, y'know...<br><br>Also by the way-I
have lyrics only to Peter, and the last Newman-the
rest comes with practically zero liner notes...Aintcha
an English speaker? Darn, if a damned foreigner like
myself can make them out...remember what Janis said: TRY
HARDER!!!<br><br>:-) Regards, y'all...Sanya

Probably Mack the Knife...<br><br>SO don't
anybody piss me off!!!<br><br><br>;p<br><br>Sanya... what
exactly is going wrong in your life at the moment? You
can e-mail me if you would like (besides, you have
to: I need lyrics to Randy Newman and the Tiger
Lillies! :)<br><br>Seriously, though. I like it when
people tell me what's bothering them. It is in my nature
to pry.

Cause I'm a lousy club manager, that's why!
:-)<br><br>But you knew that already...<br>Well, all you pretty
people, please SAY SOMETHING so death doesn't feel too
lonely... I'm at a loss of words at the moment, what with
the lab, the stories, the lies, the silly games I'm
playing...!<br><br>My life-a Weill song. Okay. Here's an idea.<br>Which
Weill song does your life resemble most?<br>Winner
takes all...to dinner.<br><br> best-Sanya

Sanya, why aren't you posting things?

Oh, come on.  Your handwriting is so neat it makes me sick!<br><br>;-p

Well then you saw one of the highlights of the
evening; I thought John Mauceri was really splendid once
he got warmed up, although Judy Kaye was a bit too
Broadway for my liking. Of the females, Mary Cleere Haran
was in very good voice, especially on Speak Low, and
Melissa Errico was a terrific surprise on That's Him;
much more elegant than just about everyone else around
her (note to Angelina Reaux: Go shopping!)<br>Ivy
Austin also did a nice job with The Saga of
Jenny.<br><br>Ivy had to use music, unfortunately but
understandably, as did almost everyone else in the War and Peace
segment. Karen Kohler did a particularly beautiful Was
Bekam Des Soldaten Weib and Wie Lange Noch (which I
thought I'd never heard of, but turns out to be a lyric
rewrite of Je Ne t'aime Pas, another pleasant surprise!).
Moreover, Karen didn't use any music, and she looked
smashing in a black (purple?) sheath. For a no-name
talent, she came across most professionally of
all.<br><br>Ute is a real entertainer. She looked slightly
kitschy in her flapper fringes (but a lot better than
Reaux!), but she did her two numbers beautifully. Alabama
Song fit perfectly in her range. Interestingly, she
performed off program.<br><br>Among the men, I just love
everything The Hudson Shad do, and they had a lot of fun
with some of the Broadway tunes. The best moment for
any male in the whole program was I thought Dirk
Weiler doing Bilbao Song. It was positively brilliant,
with just the right Brectian irony/alienation. I
almost cried, however, when Mauceri and Co. backed up
Weill himself singing That's Him from an old recording
at the end of the program. He just sounded so
sweet.<br><br>BTW, I won't be able to catch Ute at Town Hall, but I
was just there to see the MAC Awards, and that was
fun. Julie Wilson is a Goddess. Also, I'm still
computerless, but my SO may be getting one for working at home,
so maybe soon! Best all around!<br><br>In haste,
<br><br>Maria

Hi, Chris-<br><br>yes, Newman composed the Toy
Story scores-he's quite famous as a film composer-and
so's his dad or uncle or both...<br><br>Calligraphy?
And ME? Is this a sly joke? :-)<br><br> Best
regards-Sanya

I got the tapes, Sanya! Thanks a lot. They are
thoroughly interesting. Randy Newman sang for the Toy Story
movies, didn't he? It's a fairly distinguishable voice,
and my brother owns the film. He was sitting there
watching it this morning, and I was shocked to hear Randy
Newman's voice doing the theme song, "You've Got a Friend
in Me" or some such thing.<br><br>The Tiger Lillies
are great, too. I am all psyched up to see them on
April 26th - 30th when Shockheaded Peter comes to
Toronto.<br><br>AND the card was very nice too.<br><br>Thanks
again,<br><br>Chris<br><br>P.S. I only sent this thank you to you on here
because
I couldn't access my e-mail today.<br><br>P.P.S.
Were you President of the Caligraphy club in high
school or something?

That's great; I only heard the Seven deadly sins... Are you going to Ute's
concert on the 28th?

Well. Just heard it, and only once...and I'm
disappointed. Sure, there are a few songs I like (Waits most of
all), but the...the STYLE of the thing upset me. No, I
DIDN'T like the whatchamacallit space-age arrangements!
And even her voice-which, truth be told, is an
acquired taste: thin, edgy, piercing, but so right on the
her two Weill CDs, for example-struck me as
especially grating in these pieces... But then, I didn't
hold onto her disc of Michael Newman songs either...
But then, I LIKE City of Strangers...<br><br>Anybody
else's reactions?

Hello All,<br><br>I just wanted to let you know
that I got to the WTWW marathon at Symphony Space on
the 25th, and it was fabulous. I want to give you a
report soon, but I'm currently on someone else's
computer while I try to scout up a cheap unit for myself.
So I'm forced to be brief at the
moment.<br><br>Quickly, I saw Lemper, Kohler, and many other worthies,
and got a total of almost 8 hours worth (andalmost
all of it worth the wait). I'll look forward to
digesting it all for you soon. Bye for now.<br><br>Maria

Hmm... sure.  A tape might be a good idea.<br><br>:)<br><br>E-mail me sometime
(creepingdeath_1584@...) and I will give you my address.

Thanks, death.<br><br>Oh, you HAVE to listen to
Randy Newman. The man's a genius. Here's five best
albums:<br><br>1. Good old boys<br>2. Randy Newman<br>3. Sail
away<br>4. 12 songs<br>5. Little criminals<br><br>Collect
'em all!!<br><br>Last year he came out with the very
good "Bad Love". However, for the full measure of his
zaniness, lyricism, sadness, satire et al., look to the
ones above first.<br><br>How could one not love the
guy who wrote "A Wedding in Cherokee county"? "Davy
the fat boy"? "Caroline"? "Simon and the amazing
dancing bear"?<br>Indeed.<br><br>P.S. I'd gladly send you
a tape if you can't find/wouldn't buy without
sampling.

Happy 31!<br><br>I have 5 Cohen
CDs:<br><br>Songs, Songs of Love and Hate, New Skin for the Old
Ceremony, I'm Your Man and The Future.<br><br>Klezmer, yes.
As for the others, I have yet to become overly
familiar with them...<br><br>The Tiger Lillies are
probably as close as I have gotten so far.

Weeell...pretty impressive, don't you think, how
all these groups intertwine...See, I've never had a
recording of "City..."-I believe I heard only one song,
once (something with a "bride" and a "ship" in the
title?)-and yet it registered, on that same plane with the
other musicians mentioned... hmhmhm. <br><br>Lessee if
we can branch out a bit...On the text side-people
like Leonard Cohen? Randy Newman? Do you know the
French chanteurs-Brassens, for example? And music-care
for klezmer? Gypsy music? <br><br>Tonight I'm going
to the Carnegie; there's Weill's serenade from the
Dreigroschenoper, then Prokofiev etc.<br><br>There was a
"wall-to-wall" Weill concert at Symphony Space last Saturday,
Ute was there...but I, alas, wasn't, celebrating my
birthday with a strawberry mille foglie pigout on
Washington Square...

Yes, it says something to me!<br><br>Mick Harvey
(Bad Seeds, ex-Birthday Party) and Rowland S. Howard
(ex-Birthday Party) were both members! And they weren't a
British band (as you probably guessed by the fact that
Mick and Rowland are members). They are
Aussies.<br><br>My favourite instrument... I can't name one.
Sorry...

Death, this is great. What's your favorite instrument? Your band's name-and
Cave-reminded me of a British group I heard loooong time ago-"Crime and city
solution". Does it say anything to you?

I love music... I play a million instruments and
have a deep, baritone voice. My band, Slum Church
(named for a line in a Birthday Party song) is coming
along nicely... we just picked up a saxophonist. Nick
Cave, Tom Waits, etc., are my main
influences.<br><br>Sadly, that is a very unreliable field... so are the
others I am interested in:<br><br>Creative
Writing<br>Screenwriting<br><br>Nothing else holds my interest. Physics did at
one point,
and I can dissect pig lungs and eat my lunch a minute
later... but the sciences just don't "do anything" to me
anymore.<br><br>It's all creative writing... songs, novels, short
stories, screenplays, what have you.<br><br>That is what I
want.

*smirks at death*<br><br>I'm better than
micro-I'm molecular! And sure I'll-in my boundless
generosity-help you!<br><br>Er, no botanical questions...I can
tell my roses from my cabbage (same family, tho!), but
that's about it... <br><br>What will you do in life
after biology, death?<br><br> Sanya-who SHOULD have
been a piano accompanist to the Crazy Horse/Moulin
Rouge routines...

*glares at Nehayeva*<br><br>You think you're so
big just because you're a
micro-biologist.<br><br>I'll show you!!<br><br>P. S.: Um... can you help me
study for some of my more difficult biology tests? I
promise I'll be nice to you from now on...

The other stuff by the band is in the rock section...