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September Songs The Music of Kurt Weill
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Wikipedia article
'September Songs The Music of Kurt Weill' is a music video of 94 minutes recorded on VHS in 1994 for Rhombus Media, ZDF (Germany), CBC (Canada) and RTP (Portugal).'September Songs The Music of Kurt Weill' It was produced and directed by Larry Weinstein, and written by Weinstein and David Mortin. Hal Willner was the music supervisor who conceived this film as a follow-up to the album 'Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill' which he had produced.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/09/24/a-primal-tribute-to-iggy-pop/9e3c5573-d44f-4bd3-a412-48eeea4ddd4b/ "A Primal Tribute to Iggy Pop"] by Mark Jenkins, 'The Washington Post', 24 September 1997 The film was nominated for the 1995 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cultural Program;[https://www.emmys.com/shows/september-songs-music-kurt-weill Emmy nomination] it won five Gemini Awards in 1997.
The backdrop of the performance consists of an abandoned warehouse where musicians perform a series of songs by Kurt Weill. Between songs, parts of Weill's biography are narrated.
The original video recording was released in 1994 and was shown on 'Great Performances'. An audio version was released in 1997.
The cast of consists of the Brodsky Quartet, William S. Burroughs, Betty Carter, Nick Cave and Spanish Fly, Elvis Costello, Kathy Dalton, Bob Dorough, Charlie Haden, PJ Harvey, David Johansen, Lou Reed, Mary Margaret O'Hara, The Persuasions, Stan Ridgway, Ralph Schuckett, Ellen Shipley, Teresa Stratas, the Brodsky Quartet, the Y Chamber Symphony. It also features the voices of Lotte Lenya, Bertolt Brecht, and Weill.
Track list
The order of songs is taken from the Sony Classical CD. The order in the film is different and there are more songs in the film: Kathy Dalton sings "Aggie's Sewing Machine" ("Aggie's Song") from 'Johnny Johnson', Stan Ridgway sings the "Cannon Song" from 'The Three Penny Opera' with Tom and Bruce Fowler and a choreography by Janice Hladki, Ghettoriginal Dance Company performs "Mandalay-B-Boy-Parlay" inspired by the "Mandalay Song" from 'Happy End'. The film also features the Esprit Orchestra playing the "Nocturne" and "Weill Variations" (by Alex Pauk) from Weill's incidental music for the play 'Konjunktur' by Lo Lania and the instrumental "Song of the Goddess" from 'Johnny Johnson' played by the MGM Studio Orchestra.
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