Who doesn't love the music of Kurt Weill? He captures that decadent, cynical mood of the 1930's. Some famous ones: the Alabama Song ("Show me the way to the next whiskey bar...") and Mack the Knife.
Today I was listening to "Pride" from Weill's Seven Deadly Sins (Die seiben todsünden). I can't understand the words, but I love hearing the German!
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Hi Liz,
The music from Kurt Weill I have in my library is the famous version of Mack the Knife by Ella Fitzgerald, during the Berlin concert where she forgot the words and started a wild impro, and the music of Bertholt Brecht's Baal as sung by David Bowie, including the Alabama Song. So it’s all English versions of the songs, and the Ella version is a jazzy adaptation...
Hi, Sophie!
Thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for your comment. That Ella recording must be fun! David Bowie? I LOVE David Bowie. I think I have heard him do the Alabama Song (also, The Doors covered it), but not "Baal". I bet it's a hoot!
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