The cover of A.J. Teshin’s ‘The Kurt Weill Project.’ The cover of A.J. Teshin’s ‘The Kurt Weill Project.’ When Los Angeles resident and Wilkes-Barre native A.J. Teshin set out to record his first ...
In honor of revolutionary composer Kurt Weill’s 125th birthday this year, acclaimed singer & actress Ute Lemper has announced her new album, Pirate Jenny, out April 25 via The Audiophile Society.
Meredith Monk’s “Cellular Songs,” a Kurt Weill rarity and a new take on Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” are among the highlights. By The New York Times The German-born cabaret performer’s latest album ...
On his first two albums under his own name, London-based alto saxophonist Sam Braysher focused on the Great American Songbook. On this, his third album, he takes a sideways look at mid-twentieth ...
I’ve been drawn to Weill’s work since I first heard it at the age of about 15 (23 years ago), and I think this broad appeal stems from the deep humanity in his music. He writes about the human ...
But it works handsomely. Veteran director Giles Havergal’s hands-off approach would surely have pleased Weill’s testy collaborator Brecht. And having the songs accompanied, superbly, by Martin Pickard ...
There simply aren’t very many artists or voices like Rufus Wainwright. One of those polymath talents who build upon multigenerational musicianship and a voracious mind for knowledge, art and the ...
To celebrate revolutionary composer Kurt Weill’s 125th birthday on March 2, acclaimed singer & actress Ute Lemper has released “Mack the Knife,” the new single from her album Pirate Jenny, out April ...
In the words of Kurt Weil “Where do incoming goods go from here? To that question I ask where indeed? This release is about as obscure as it gets. There is no translated biographical information on ...