Comments on: A Bunch of Brecht (and Weill) http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/ a song a day (video and sometimes a few lyrics), for one month only Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:03:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Avivit http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-187 Avivit Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:24:14 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-187 how about that "same excellent translation by Michael Feingold" that the astounding Dagmar Krause is singing? I found this page trying 2 locate the lyric 2 place on my profile.. but not even here -did I find that translation! I however can enlighten you 2 the existence of yet another English translation -I had just had the misfortune of encountering (it was by all means horrendous!) and 2 the existence of a Lotte Lenya clip on u-tube -singing Surabaya johnny! how about that “same excellent translation by Michael Feingold” that the astounding Dagmar Krause is singing? I found this page trying 2 locate the lyric 2 place on my profile.. but not even here -did I find that translation!
I however can enlighten you 2 the existence of yet another English translation -I had just had the misfortune of encountering
(it was by all means horrendous!)
and 2 the existence of a Lotte Lenya clip on u-tube -singing Surabaya johnny!

]]> By: Craig (Maito Sewa Yoleme) http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-18 Craig (Maito Sewa Yoleme) Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:48:30 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-18 I am forever in your debt for that clip of B.B. singing Mackie Messer. And Michael Buble has been on the hit list for a good year already. I'm just not willing to get that close to him. I am forever in your debt for that clip of B.B. singing Mackie Messer.

And Michael Buble has been on the hit list for a good year already. I’m just not willing to get that close to him.

]]> By: mrs Slocombe http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-17 mrs Slocombe Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:24:58 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-17 http://www.peabodyopera.org/essays/threepenny04/: you need realplayer, I think. Now, I would like you to kill Michael Buble, if you don't mind. I'd never heard the connection between Schwejk in the Scecond World War and the Producers. I saw Schwejl at the National with huge puppets of Hitler and Stalin, and apart from the puppets Mel Brooks was more pointed...thanks for being an explicator: I tend to waft along strewing allusions in my wake like Morrissey's daffodils (you see?) http://www.peabodyopera.org/essays/threepenny04/: you need realplayer, I think. Now, I would like you to kill Michael Buble, if you don’t mind. I’d never heard the connection between Schwejk in the Scecond World War and the Producers. I saw Schwejl at the National with huge puppets of Hitler and Stalin, and apart from the puppets Mel Brooks was more pointed…thanks for being an explicator: I tend to waft along strewing allusions in my wake like Morrissey’s daffodils (you see?)

]]> By: Craig (Maito Sewa Yoleme) http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-15 Craig (Maito Sewa Yoleme) Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:27:04 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-15 Some translations for the rest of us, if you'll allow me, Miz Slo. Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov (1906–1977) was a miner in the Soviet Union. He became a celebrity in 1935 (and was on the cover of Time magazine) as part of a movement intended to increase worker productivity and demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system. Personally, while I feel a great connection with the American Socialists of the '30s, I'm more of a Democratic Socialist (or a Social Democrat) these days. Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to classify, I think. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. I understand her revision of Weill-Brecht's "Pirate Jenny" reflected the bitter elements of African-American experience, but unfortunately I've never heard her version. It's now at the top of my list. Eisler is Hanns Eisler, 1898-1962, a prolific Marxist composer, whose pre-World War II songs for the masses blended criticism of capitalism with advanced musical techniques. A number of Eisler's songs were based on Bertolt Brecht's texts. In 1942-43 he worked on <em>Hollywood Songbook</em> with texts by Brecht, Anacreon, Hölderlin, Goethe, Rimbaud, and others. Eisler also composed for Broadway plays and after moving to California for Hollywood films, such as <em>Hangmen also Die</em> (1943), directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Brecht, and <em>None but the Lonely Heart</em> (1944), directed by Cliff Odets and starring Cary Grant. For both films Eisler received Academy Award nominations. Interesting tidbit: in Brecht's play <em>Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg</em>, which he wrote in 1941-43 and for which Eisler composed the music, the characters of Hitler, Göring, and Himmler and others were made to sing. The play was not produced until in 1957; it perhaps inspired Mel Brooks' first feature <em>The Producers</em> (1968). Eisler's not on the schedule, but I think you'll be pleased with some other off-beat choices coming up. And I would KILL to hear Brecht singing 3PO. Some translations for the rest of us, if you’ll allow me, Miz Slo.

Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov (1906–1977) was a miner in the Soviet Union. He became a celebrity in 1935 (and was on the cover of Time magazine) as part of a movement intended to increase worker productivity and demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system. Personally, while I feel a great connection with the American Socialists of the ’30s, I’m more of a Democratic Socialist (or a Social Democrat) these days.

Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to classify, I think. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. I understand her revision of Weill-Brecht’s “Pirate Jenny” reflected the bitter elements of African-American experience, but unfortunately I’ve never heard her version. It’s now at the top of my list.

Eisler is Hanns Eisler, 1898-1962, a prolific Marxist composer, whose pre-World War II songs for the masses blended criticism of capitalism with advanced musical techniques. A number of Eisler’s songs were based on Bertolt Brecht’s texts. In 1942-43 he worked on Hollywood Songbook with texts by Brecht, Anacreon, Hölderlin, Goethe, Rimbaud, and others. Eisler also composed for Broadway plays and after moving to California for Hollywood films, such as Hangmen also Die (1943), directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Brecht, and None but the Lonely Heart (1944), directed by Cliff Odets and starring Cary Grant. For both films Eisler received Academy Award nominations. Interesting tidbit: in Brecht’s play Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg, which he wrote in 1941-43 and for which Eisler composed the music, the characters of Hitler, Göring, and Himmler and others were made to sing. The play was not produced until in 1957; it perhaps inspired Mel Brooks’ first feature The Producers (1968).

Eisler’s not on the schedule, but I think you’ll be pleased with some other off-beat choices coming up.

And I would KILL to hear Brecht singing 3PO.

]]> By: mrs Slocombe http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-13 mrs Slocombe Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:13:59 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-13 you are quite the Stakhanovite, my friend: for myself the most intended version of Pirate Jenny is Nina Simone's, and I once had and sadly lost an lp of threpenny Opera with Bert himself singing Macheath, in a cracked voice with the r's rolling like the drum on a tumbril. Will we be getting Eisler? Silly question.... you are quite the Stakhanovite, my friend: for myself the most intended version of Pirate Jenny is Nina Simone’s, and I once had and sadly lost an lp of threpenny Opera with Bert himself singing Macheath, in a cracked voice with the r’s rolling like the drum on a tumbril. Will we be getting Eisler? Silly question….

]]> By: Craig (Maito Sewa Yoleme) http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-12 Craig (Maito Sewa Yoleme) Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:50:54 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-12 Deloney: I have already finished writing the first fourteen posts. They'll appear at 5:30 a.m., for you early risers. Indigo: Alex, what is, "How does she like her men?" Deloney: I have already finished writing the first fourteen posts. They’ll appear at 5:30 a.m., for you early risers.

Indigo: Alex, what is, “How does she like her men?”

]]> By: indigo bunting http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-11 indigo bunting Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:43:51 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-11 What he said. But I'm drinking coffee. Black and bitter. (I know what you're thinking—finely ground and stored in the freezer!) What he said. But I’m drinking coffee. Black and bitter. (I know what you’re thinking—finely ground and stored in the freezer!)

]]> By: Deloney http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-10 Deloney Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:46:43 +0000 http://septembersongs.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/a-bunch-of-brecht/#comment-10 I was hoping there'd be something waiting for me here this morning. I sat down with my tea and toast and enjoyed myself immensely. I was hoping there’d be something waiting for me here this morning. I sat down with my tea and toast and enjoyed myself immensely.

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