Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill is a musical revue with a book by Gene Lerner, music by Kurt Weill, and lyrics by various songwriting partners Weill worked with over his career.

Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill is a musical revue with a book by Gene Lerner, music by Kurt Weill, and lyrics by various songwriting partners Weill worked with over his career.

Kurt Weill's career has been hotly debated for more than 60 years

Kurt Weill's career has been hotly debated for more than 60 years. The questions began while he was still alive: Did he sell out his German artistry for the crass commercialism of Broadway? Or did he only really come into his own when he was freed from European snobbery? The answer is that both opinions are somewhat true and somewhat false.

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German Jewish composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose.

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Kurt Weill (1900-1950) began his career in the early 1920's, after a musical childhood and several years of study in Berlin. The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music is a non-profit, private foundation dedicated to promoting understanding of Weill's life and works and preserving the legacies of Weill and Lenya.

Lotte Lenya/Kurt Weill/ Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill/bertolt Brecht . Weill-ThreePenny Opera. Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir and Syphony Orchestra, Symonette, Kurt Weill. Lotte Lenya & Orch. Lotte Lenya/Kurt Weill/ Bertolt Brecht, Lotte Lenya & Orch. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Hollywood Collection, Vol. 5. Lotte Lenya, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Kurt Weill.

This elegant folio chronicles the music of Kurt Weill featured in Hollywood films and Broadway musicals.

Template:Short description Script error Script error. Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German Jewish composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

When Nazis began publicly burning copies of his latest musical theatre piece, composer Kurt Weill took it as a hint that he might be better off sailing to America and writing for Broadway. Rachel de Benedet (Photo: Ben Strothmann). Although he never penned a word for the stage, sung or spoken, Weill was a devout leftist who believed in music's power to benefit the public welfare; a sentiment duly reflected in the projects he composed.