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...Waits When I listen to Tom Waits, it's as if I managed to get Bertolt Brecht, William Shakespeare and an old drunk vagrant to sit down and sing to me--a beautiful, heady mixture...
...evolution over the past few years.Elizabeth Bergmann, the Dance Program’s director and the founder of the “Dancers’ Viewpointe” tradition back in 2001, choreographed the third piece of the performance to Kurt Weill’s and Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera.” The music for the piece was performed by The Harvard Wind Ensemble, which was able to accompany the dancers due to the New College Theatre’s large orchestral pit.Bergmann found this first collaboration with a large-scale live...
...knew that he was changing everything. First he updated Woody Guthrie's notion of the topical folk song and made it his own, creating anthems that were the sound track to the early-'60s Civil Rights movement. Then he smartly ransacked the tropes of every hip lyricist from Bertolt Brecht to the Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Then adapted his righteous belligerence to the standard love song, upending it into airs of bitter, knowing rejection. When he tired of being the preeminent folkie, and the poster boy for political causes, he plugged himself in, merging the Beats...
...Threepenny Opera” is, more or less, everything it should be. Stage director Kate D. Greenhalgh ’05 and producer Sarah S. Eggleston ’07 put on a dangerously modern interpretation of a dangerously modern opera, originally written by Bertolt Brecht and translated into English by Marc Blitzstein. LHO’s show will run March 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. in the Lowell House Dining Hall.Set in mid-eighteenth century Soho, London, the opera nonetheless captures the moral ambiguity and social insecurity of Weimar Republic-era Germany...
Eggleston most recently produced the Lowell House Opera’s (LHO) revival of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera,” which premiered on Wednesday night. She has worked with the LHO, the Dunster House Opera, and the Harvard Early Music Society, among other student music groups. She first took an interest in opera as a member of the Boston Children’s Opera, an after-school program for young singers...