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Some of the best and brightest left the country. Thomas Mann left, and Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Paul Tillich, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder. Some of the less fortunate fell into the hands of Goring's police and ended up in a little village outside Munich where the Nazis had built their first concentration camp. It was called Dachau. This was not yet the era of the gas chambers but rather of the truncheon, not mass murder but the gradual silencing of all opposition. "They came first for the Communists...
...Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill...
...Brecht's intriguing look at the lives of beggars, prostitutes and thieves takes over the Loeb Mainstage this weekend for a two-week performance run. Involving a large cast of 12 men and 12 women, Threepenny Opera should provide a welcome study break from those weary Reading Period evenings...
...rest of this season, though, BAM already has two very unusual projects in the works. The first, at the Majestic in March, is the Mahagonny Songspiel (1927) by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, a small-scale early draft of their corrosive parable, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The eccentric director Peter Sellars has eccentrically decided to combine this with the same singers performing eight Bach choral works. But the piece de resistance, which just finished two weeks of performances in Paris and is due in Brooklyn in May, is a 313-year-old opera that almost...
...addition, HRDC will produce two plays--Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera and a play adapted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold-- both designed to showcase minority actors...