Kurt Weill - For ginasketch

[karohemd]

Kurt Weill on wikipedia

The Threepenny Opera
Probably his most well known work and his famous collaboration with Bert Brecht.

An English version:

Not to forget the one by Louis Armstrong:

His facial expressions in this one are priceless:

Comments

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Mack the Knife is one of my absolute favourite songs, as I may have mentioned elsewhere - I've got a Bobby Darin version, but I still think Louis Armstrong did the best English version of it...

One of these days I'll get to see the Threepenny Opera. I almost made it to the original Beggar's Opera last month, but I was a bit... disorganised... :-(

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's great stuff.

On Wednesday, I pointed out to ginasketch how Amanda Palmer (who is a big fan as well) had changed the KURZWEIL on her e-piano to KURTWEILL (as can be seen here (http://flickr.com/photos/karohemd/3255836819/)) and was surprised to find out she didn't know him so I found some examples.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Amanda Palmer?

Did somebody asked why she changed the name of her keyboard to Kurt Weill instead of Kurtzweill?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Yep, see comment above. AFP also mentioned on her blog that she was playing lots of Weill recently.