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Kurt Weill: Songs Degenerate and Otherwise

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Kurt Weill: Songs Degenerate & Otherwise

An Evening with Alvin Epstein and Beth Anne Cole

Musical Director / Arranger - Cathy Rand


There will be one 15 min. intermission.


~ ACT ONE ~

September Song from Knickerbocker Holiday (1938)
Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson

Ballad of Sexual Slavery from The Threepenny Opera (1928)
Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht

Wouldn't You Like to Be on Broadway from Street Scene (1947)
Lyrics by Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes

What Good Would the Moon Be? from Street Scene (1947)

Moon of Alabama from Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny (1927)
Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht

Tango Ballad from The Threepenny Opera (1928) *

Nana's Song (1935)
Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht

Song of Mandelay from Happy End (1929)
Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht

How Much Do I Love You from One Touch of Venus (1943)
Lyrics by Ogden Nash

Speak Low from One Touch of Venus (1943)

Mon Ami, My Friend from Johnny Johnson (1936)
Lyrics by Paul Green

Cannon Song from The Threepenny Opera (1928)

Soldaten Weib (1943)
Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht

Fennimore Song from Silbersee [Silver Lake] (1932)
Lyrics by Georg Kaiser

Tchaikovsky from Lady in the Dark (1941)
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

~ INTERMISSION ~

~ ACT TWO ~

Tchaikovsky from Lady in the Dark (1941)

Instead Of from Lady in the Dark (1941)

Barbara Song from The Threepenny Opera

Big Shot from Happy End

Lily from Hell from Happy End

Sailor's Tango from Happy End

Pirate Jenny from The Threepenny Opera

Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera *

My Ship from Lady in the Dark

Very Very Rich from One Touch of Venus

The Life That We Lead from Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny

* Musical arrangement conceived by Steven Blier

 

 

 

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