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Cabot House Music Society. Voices, a program of songs and musical theater with Anna Myatt, Roger Marsh, Luna Woolf and Charles McGuire. Features Brecht songs by Weill and Eisler and works by Patrick Lee, Luciano Berio, Georges Aperghis and Roger Marsh. Cabot Lounge...
...ending this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, are a witches' brew of cabaret, silent-movie slapstick, Expressionist psychodrama, Japanese theater, lounge lizardry and high-tech wizardry. What keeps it bubbling is a melodic succession of wheezy parlor waltzes, barroom blues, moon-June pop and ersatz Kurt Weill. What gives it fizz is gallows humor, antiwar mockery, sweet sentiment and an inventiveness that more than honors the imperative laid down years ago by Sergei Diaghilev to Jean Cocteau: "Astonish...
During the 1930s, a steady stream of composers and performers fled Nazi Germany in the wake of Hitler's Kulturkampf. Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer and other purveyors of "degenerate art" found a safe haven in the U.S. Gentile and Jew alike, they contributed immeasurably to the development of music in America. But what of those not so lucky as to escape? What talents were consigned to the flames of the Holocaust? The fascinating and moving new CD Silenced Voices offers poignant witness to what was -- and what might have been...
...SAYS YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME AGAIN? EVER since Sanford Weill sold Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the brokerage firm that he created, to American Express in 1981, he has longed to regain control of the company. After several failed attempts, Weill finally hit pay dirt when Primerica Corp., where he serves as chairman, acquired financially ailing Shearson Lehman Bros. in a $1.2 billion deal that ranks as the largest in the history of the securities business...
...combining Shearson with Primerica's Smith Barney, the acquisition will create a Wall Street powerhouse that poses a serious threat to industry leader Merrill Lynch. The deal will also reunite Weill with a company he patched together out of a string of troubled brokerages during the 1960s and '70s. American Express had been seeking to unload the money-losing brokerage. Wall Street hailed the merger as good for all three firms...