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...piece, the New England premiere of the Kirchner plane ??rto (conducted by Kirchner and ??med by Luise Vosgerchian), the New England premiere of Gunter Schuller's Five B?? and premieres of some of Dr. yaks works. HRO and the Glee Club would have performed the American premiere of Kurt Weill's Berlin Requiem at the coming mach concert, but discovered that a major symbol my orchestra has the rights to that premiere...
...besides being commercial failures, these shows all have one other-far more important-common denominator. In nearly every case. their scores were influenced most by one man, the granddaddy of forgotten musicals, Kurt Weill. In other words if you are going to write a good flop musical, you had best throw away your Rodgers and Hammerstein albums and start tuning into The Threepenny Opera. And, even if you are not planning to start turning out such wayward masterpieces, you should turn on to Weill, because, quite simply, he has written some of the great songs of this century...
Many of these phenomenal songs can be found in Johnny Johnson, one of the most forgotten of Weill's forgotten works (It ran only two months during the 1936-37 Broadway season and has hardly been produced since), which is being revived at the Loeb this week. There are love songs and cowboy songs and anti-war songs, many among Weill's best, in this show: they must be heard...
...perfectly conceived, as are Elizabeth Tullis's costumes and Sara Linnie Slocum's lighting. Not to mention Charles Langmuir's assured performance of the hero (an anti-war American who goes off to fight the "war to end all wars") and that swell band gliding through the original Weill orchestrations...
Died. Armand ("Al") Weill, 75, controversial prizefight matchmaker and manager who guided Rocky Marciano to the world's heavyweight title; of heart disease; in Miami. Of all the boxing figures of the '30s and '40s, few were more hated than the conniving, cigar-chewing Weill, who often used his matchmaking jobs to further the careers of fighters he managed. He had four world champions over the years, ending with Marciano, whom he picked up as an unknown in 1948 and secretly handled until 1952, when he became the Brockton Blockbuster's official manager...