Apr 21, 2008
Songs as Monologues, Injected With New Life
“If you're beaten, conceal it!/There's no pity for you./For the world cannot feel it.”
For American audiences, the unsparing view of humanity expressed in many of the best-known songs of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill is usually camouflaged by their reputation as exotic European art songs. via New York Times
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