Kurt Weill | xltronic messageboard

�

You are not logged in!

F.A.Q
Log in
Register

�

(nobody)
...and 200 guests

Last 5 registered
Oplandisks
nothingstar
N_loop
yipe
foxtrotromeo

Browse members...

Members 8025
Messages 2614114
Today 0
Topics 127542

Messageboard index
Kurt Weill

qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-23 16:55 [#01253273]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator

..has written some of the best songs ever.

all of the Brecht songs like "Mackie Messer", even the later
musical-period in America.

put that in your pipe and smoke it. except you, Monoid.

teapot from Paddington (Australia) on 2004-06-23 16:56 [#01253277]
Points: 5739 Status: Regular

whats the style etc?

010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2004-06-23 16:58 [#01253280]
Points: 7669 Status: Regular

Mack the knife rules

qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-23 16:58 [#01253281]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to teapot: #01253277

1930's kind of vaudeville, but much better. pretty weird
stuff. perfectly hummable, but kind of uneasy.

qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-23 16:59 [#01253283]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to 010101: #01253280

it does indeed. have you ever heard an original recording of
Bertold Brecht himself singing it? a tiny, high voice. very
strange.

teapot from Paddington (Australia) on 2004-06-23 17:00 [#01253284]
Points: 5739 Status: Regular

ah.. ill have to check it out... im really into classic
stuff at the moment, cant stop listening to jobim...

hobbes from age on 2004-06-23 17:01 [#01253285]
Points: 8168 Status: Lurker

o o

qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-23 17:03 [#01253291]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to teapot: #01253284

you should. he made a few music-theatre pieces with Brecht
in the 30s and 40s, "the threepennyopera" (or originally
"Der Dreigroschenoper") being the most famous (and
excellent).

he then fled during WWII to America and there he made a few
musicals, which are a lot fluffier, but still good.

teapot from Paddington (Australia) on 2004-06-23 17:05 [#01253292]
Points: 5739 Status: Regular | Followup to qrter: #01253291

cool, the name has been noted :)

qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-23 17:10 [#01253300]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to teapot: #01253292

there are MANY versions of the Dreigroschenoper, in the
original version and in English.

they range from original recordings from the 30s (which are
quaint, but kind of stiff) to modern versions with for
example Nina Hagen and the Ensemble Modern (which is one of
the best current modern musical people-things-stuff).

marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-06-23 17:22 [#01253319]
Points: 24589 Status: Lurker

I like the doors cover.

qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-23 17:25 [#01253321]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to marlowe: #01253319

"alabama song", you mean?

there are better versions, believe me.

Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-06-23 18:45 [#01253449]
Points: 19190 Status: Moderator | Show recordbag

My only experience with Kurt Weill is through a Young Gods
album called ''Young Gods Play Kurt Weill''. And it is quite
an experience.

What kind of Weill shit should I look out for? Albums/comps
like.

Messageboard index