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Julia Bullock: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

December 1, 2020 • From her home in Germany, the provocative American soprano delivers songs of introspection and freedom from Franz Schubert's mountaintop epiphany to Billy Taylor's wish for equality and justice.

Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

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Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

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May 13, 2013 • Pink Martini singer Storm Large joins Leonard Slatkin and the orchestra for Kurt Weill's satirical Seven Deadly Sins, in a program bookended by composers who straddled the turn of the last century.

Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

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Decadence and Decay: Kurt Weill's 'Mahagonny'

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Decadence and Decay: Kurt Weill's 'Mahagonny'

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December 10, 2010 • Kurt Weill unleashed his entire musical and dramatic arsenal in this astonishing and decadent opera, which he wrote in his early twenties. The action is set in a fictional American city, but it's reminiscent of Weimar, Germany.

Decadence and Decay: Kurt Weill's 'Mahagonny'

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Weill's 'Mahagonny' on DVD

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February 13, 2008 • Fresh Air's classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new DVD release of a lesser-known Kurt Weill opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny.

Weill's 'Mahagonny' on DVD

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Making 'LoveMusik' with Weill and Lenya

April 29, 2007 • The complicated relationship between Kurt Weill, the composer of the standard "Mack the Knife," and his wife, the singer Lotte Lenya, is the subject of LoveMusik, which opens on Broadway this week.

Making 'LoveMusik' with Weill and Lenya

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Baltimore's Alsop Handles Brahms, Weill, Bernstein

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January 9, 2006 • A disc devoted to concert music by Leonard Bernstein is among four recent releases from conductor Marin Alsop, the new director of the Baltimore Symphony. The recordings show Alsop handling Brahms with the London Symphony Orchestra, and two Kurt Weill symphonies with the Bournemouth Symphony.

Baltimore's Alsop Handles Brahms, Weill, Bernstein

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Weill's 100th

February 28, 2000 • Thursday, March 2nd, is the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Kurt Weill.

Weill's 100th

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