Product Overview
Lotte Lenya and Gisela May - Theater Songs of Brecht and Weill / Theater Music of Brecht and Weill / Including performances by Martha Schlamme and Will Holt / Packaging, design and DVD authoring © 2005 Video Artists International, Inc. / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 77 Minutes
UPC: 089948431992
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Item model number : 2234584
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Black & White, Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 17 minutes
- Release date : March 29, 2005
- Actors : Martha Schlamme, Will Holt, Werner Richard Heymann
- Studio : Video Artists Int'L
- Country of Origin : France
- Number of discs : 1
DUAL LAYER DISC: layer transition may trigger a slight pause.
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He became a United States citizen on August 27, 1943.
Music of Kurt Weill, Paul Dessau, Werner Richard Heymann. Special appearances by Martha Schlamme, Will Holt.
