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...recording library. The album is the Charlie Parker Verve Years 1950-51, and the contention is greatest re-release yet. The selections, the improved rerecording techniques, and the Bird himself, of course, make this album the best listener choice for the year. My favorite selection: "Lover Man," the Kurt Weill hit down better than on all those old Billy Holliday cuts...
THREEPENNY OPERA. A stylistically sardonic revival of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill masterpiece...
...towel-clad clientele at Manhattan's gay Continental Baths, Bette Midler can look forward to at least a dressier audience this January at the New York State Theater. Belting Bette is scheduled to appear there with the New York City Ballet in a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya. Why? "She has a good voice and red hair." Says Bette...
...BERTOLT BRECHT and KURT WEILL...
...monocled Mack the Knife, Raul Julia moves like a Fred Astaire of gangsterdom, sometimes prowling for his favorite whore, Jenny (Ellen Greene). C.K. Alexander's Mr. Peachum-the Fagin of London's turn-of-the-century beggars-might have been drawn by George Grosz. The Kurt Weill score, too renowned for praise (Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny), is superbly rendered. This Threepenny Opera honors the Brecht who wrote with a hammer and swung a sickle. T.E, Kalem