Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill, from the Weimar Republic to Broadway: Story of a music genius

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2019, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H00 Hervé Roten invites the composer and musicologist Bruno Giner for the release of of his book Kurt Weill published by Editions Bleu Nuit. The opportunity to learn more on the life and work of this Jewish composer of german origins, who obtained American citizenship …

Kurt Weill

Composer and musicologist, Bruno Giner presents and analyses in this new book not only Kurt Weill’s masterpieces but also his life in which shone she who was for long his muse: the singer Lotte Lenya …

Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

A selection of compositions by Kurt Weill, partly inspired from Judaism …

Perdu dans les étoiles ou Le destin juif de Kurt Weill

Author of three books dedicated to Kurt Weill, Roland Bélicha is a former collaborator of the magazines Revue Musicale and Revue Finno-ougrienne. He also wrote about Erik Satie …

Vienna – Paris – Hollywood : songs of exile

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio program dedicated to stage music written by Jewish exiled composers from Vienna and Germany (Weill, Glanzberg, Hollaender, Korngold…) in Paris and Hollywood after the growth of Nazism …

Art music, 2nd part

Listen to a selection of the finest classical pieces by Emile Kaçmann, Kurt Weill, Fernand Halphen, Serge Kaufmann …

Art music, 1st part

Listen to a selection of the finest classical pieces by Emile Kaçmann, Kurt Weill, Fernand Halphen, Serge Kaufmann …

Weill, Kurt (1900-1950)

Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau on March 2, 1900. He was the third of four children of Emma Ackermann and Albert Weill, cantor in the synagogue of Dessau …

Music and musicians forbidden under the Third Reich

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 2, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.On the occasion of the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, listen to the program on so-called "degenerate" music, music qualified as such and banned under the Third Reich …

Plus bleu que bleu

16 songs inspired by ladino, Yiddish, Israeli, Biblical and classical music, performed by Sylvie Sivann, an eclectic artist equally at ease in opera, French songs and traditional music …