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...original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue of murder, arson and rape...
Alabama Mama. The record includes songs from other Weill musicals that are virtually unknown in the U.S., most of them close echoes of Threepenny Opera tunes. Composer Weill (who died in the U.S. in 1950) grew lyrical, sentimental and popular in such musicals as Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars. But in this album he is still the unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying...
...once the show was over and the pressure was off, Hurok changed his tune. He has ideas for other shows, e.g., digging out the popular light operas of Offenbach and Cimarosa. With NBC already planning another Hurok Spectacular, Hurok is talking of doing a show once a month or every two months "to spread the gospel of good music." The size of the Festival audience had the impresario talking fortissimo e molto appassionato: "The show went over with such a bang, it created such a revolution, that it proved to everybody that the American people are not morons. They...
SMALL INVESTORS, 58,000 of whom invested in the New York Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan, are doing well. Of the 50 most popular stocks bought since the plan was started two years ago (current total: 737,000 shares worth $28.7 million), eight increased more than 100% in value, while 16 others jumped between 50% and 100%. Top favorites: General Electric, RCA, General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey...
...College and received his Master's in library science from Columbia, has made libraries his life work. He joined the staff of Widener in 1942, where he brought about many improvements to feet the influx of post-war students. The reserve book policy was liberalized, and many duplicates of popular books were provided...