Kurt Weill Songs -- A Centennial Anthology Review

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(More customer reviews)This Anthology is a due tribute to the great songwriter, German-born Kurt Weill. His compositions include hits like Mack the Knife, September Song and Alabama Song - all of them obviously included in the anthology (but you have to buy both volumes!). The two parts of the anthology have each and every song by Weill ever published separately (ie. not as a part of a full musical score). What's more, the sheet music is an exact reprint of the original, which ensures that no alterations have been done - they are faithful to the smallest degree. Most are piano+voice scores, but some also include guitar chords. Some songs are in German, some in French and some in English. "Mack the Knife" both in the original Dreigroschen Opera German version and in the English one.
The books are quite thick (might fall down from a sheet music stand), but well-bound and not very likely to break or fall apart. Some biographical/background info is also included in both volumes, as well as a few black-and-white photographs.
All in all, the anthology is a small treasure and you'd be hard-pressed to find all the individual songs in any bookshop or any other edition. So if you love Kurt Weill's music (and can read scores), you'll certainly love this collection.

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This shrink-wrapped set contains volumes 1 and 2.

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Exiles in Hollywood (Limelight) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Germans lose their wars because of arrogance, pride, and over confidence. Among their other traits are their desires to get rid of any of the people they don't like.

The story of the contributions of the atomic scientists is well known. Einstein and Szilard writing the letter to Roosevelt. Bohr and Fermi constructing the atomic pile in Chicago, and many more.

This book, however is on Hollywood. Hollowood got its share of Exiles as well. It consists of chapters on some of the most famous people of the movies from just before World War II until well after: Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock (OK so he wasn't German), Bertolt Brecht, Otto Preminger and many more.

One chapter is on Hedy Lamarr, perhaps the most beautiful actress ever. She was also a German Jew and an electrical engineer, holding the patent on the frequency hopping spread spectrum technology used in a great deal of modern communications devices.

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Fleeing Nazi persecution, half of Europe's creative talents, including screen legend Greta Garbo and composer Igor Stravinsky, were, in Arnold Schoenberg's words, "driven into paradise," settling in Los Angeles. It was the greatest flight of European cultural and intellectual talent in history, and for a time made Los Angeles a cultural capital. Their presence, enabling the evolution of film noir, also changed American movies forever.In Exiles in Hollywood, David Wallace, author of the national bestseller Lost Hollywood and whom columnist Liz Smith has called "the maestro of entertainment history," tells their dramatic stories. His profiles of refugees include filmmaker Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann, the screenwriter Salka Viertel and her controversial relationship with Greta Garbo, the deeply conflicted actor Charles Laughton, and many more. The result is a rich, page-turning look at an era, its triumphs and tragedies, its gossip and hidden facts, and its colorful personalities.

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One Touch of Venus (Richmond Music ¯ Folios) Review

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(More customer reviews)Play by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash starred Mary Martin as Venus, in the Broadway cast list in my copy of the book! Pages have deckle edges, nice. Endpapers have the song words and drawings in red, nice illustrations. Rare. Great deal, recommended.

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11 vocal selections from the musical featuring music by Ogen Nash and Kurt Weill. Includes: How Much I Love You * Speak Low * The Trouble with Women * Wooden Wedding * and more.

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