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Title: Lotte Lenya and Gisela May sing Kurt Weill's Theater Music
Review: It is a rare opportunity to have a record of these two wonderful artists and I feel most fortunate to posess this DVD. Lotte Lenya is the widow of the composer Kurt Weill and the most authentic protagonist of his music of great individuality. The composer, when disapproved for for composing only for his own generation replied, "to hell with posterity, my music is for today". His and Bertold Brecht's songs live on and the very best interpretations come from Lotte Lenya and Gisela May, who is an outstanding actress and deliveres on this DVD also highly dramatic songs by Paul Dessau, who composed them for Brect's monumental play "Mother Courage".Some of the songs are sung in German while others are in Englis. For anyone who is acquinted with this era and music this is an irrepacible doccument and for those who were not fortunate enough to know this special sort of Cabaret music at it's best, this is a discovery. Can't praise it enough.
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