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Kurt Weill at the Brevard Music Festival

Jun. 01, 2017

Kurt Weill at the Brevard Music Festival

North Carolina’s Brevard Music Festival brings the music of Kurt Weill to its audiences all summer long with its “Kurt Weill Festival within a Festival.” Highlights include The Seven Deadly Sins and songs from the Broadway shows, with soloist Lisa Vroman and the Brevard Festival Orchestra, conducted by Keith Lockhart, July 12; “Weill & Schoenberg: From Berlin to Hollywood” July 5, with baritone William Sharp, pianist Shane Schag, and Brevard artist faculty includes Five Songs from Huckleberry Finn and selections from the Four Walt Whitman Songs; an all-Weill chamber concert with Brevard artist faculty, July 10; and Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, with the Brevard Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ken Lam, August 4. Two performances of Street Scene by the Janiec Opera Company, directed by Dean Anthony and conducted by Robert Moody, round out the summer’s festivities on July 27 and 29.

Other performances of note this month include Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin with Shara Nova as Anna I on June 6, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Oundjian with Wallis Giunta on June 14. Weill’s rarely performed Johnny Johnson receives a new fully staged production at Chicago Folks Operetta, June 24 through July 9. Two leading UK conservatories present Weill operas: Die Dreigroschenoper at the Royal Academy of Music in London June 15-17, and Street Scene at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff July 3-5. Weill’s Symphony No. 2 can be heard by the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln June 25; by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Martin Brabbins in Salford, UK, June 28; at the Konzerthaus Berlin by Musici Medici, July 1; and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Lahav Shani, July 7. 

For more information on Kurt Weill, including a complete list of performances, visit kwf.org.

Kurt Weill
Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) (1933)
ballet chanté in nine scenes
lyrics (Ger) by Bertolt Brecht


for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, bass, dancer and corps de ballet
2(2pic).1.2.1-2.2.1.1-timp.perc-hp.pno.bnj(gtr)-str


35'  

Walt Whitman Songs (1942-47)
for high or low voice and piano
text (Eng) by Walt Whitman
18’

Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music) (1929)
suite from "Die Dreigroschenoper" for wind orchestra
2(pic).2.asax.tsax.sax(ssax).2-2.0.1.1-timp.perc-bnj.gtr(or harp).acc.pno
22’

Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) (1928)
play with music after John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera"; in three acts
German translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann
adaptation and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
2S, 2Mz, T, Bar, B-Bar and speaking roles
asax(fl, cl, bsax).tsax(ssax, bsn, bcl)-tpt.tbn(db)-banjo(vc, gtr, Hawaiian gtr, mandolin, bandoneon)-timp/perc (tpt 2)-harm (cel, pno)
full evening

Street Scene (1946)
an American opera in two acts
book (Eng) by Elmer Rice; lyrics (Eng) by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice
based on the play "Street Scene" by Elmer Rice
6S, A, 4Mz, 4T, 3Bar, B-Bar, B, boy soprano, speakers, dancers and orchestra
1(pic).1.2.bcl(cl).1-2.2.2.0-timp.perc-hp.pno(cel)-str
full evening  

Symphony No. 2 (1933-1934)
for orchestra
2(2.pic).2.2.2-2.2.2.0-timp.3perc-str
25’

Johnny Johnson (1936)
a play with music in three acts
text (Eng) by Paul Green
for 2 sopranos, tenor, 4 baritones and actors
Reed 1(cl, Ebcl, bcl).Reed 2(cl, bcl, asax, bsax)-2tpt.tbn-timp.perc-Hammond org(pno)-gtr(banjo)-2vn.vc
65' 

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