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Anne Kerry Ford: Weill
by Michael P. Gladstone
Anne Kerry Ford's third album, Weill, is quite an accomplishment for the actress and singer. A Juilliard graduate, Ford has been pursuing her muse in films, theatre, and now the Cabaret music of German-born Kurt Weill. Weill fled pre-war Germany in the early '30s to avoid the anti-Semitic fever that was a symbol of the years to come in Europe. When Weill arrived in the United States it signified a new beginning during which he collaborated with lyricists including Ira ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Kurt Weill (1900-50) was the consummate crossover composer. Born in Dessau, Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1933 prior to the antisemitic National Socialist wave during the period. Primarily a composer for the stage, Weill worked with such disparate talents as Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera, 1928) and Langston Hughes (Street Scene, 1947).
Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin made Weill an American household name with their respective recordings of Mack the Knife ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer," from ...
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All About Jazz
Actress/singer Anne Kerry Ford has been passionate about Kurt Weill's music since appearing with Sting in The Threepenny Opera" on Broadway, so performing with the famed WDR Big Band in Cologne,Germany's Philharmonic Hall under the musical direction of legendary arranger/musician Roger Kellaway was a dream-come-true. In Weill, she presents fifteen songs from Kurt Weill's German and American songbooks (as well as the French Youkali", sung here in rarely-heard English translation), holding her own in front of the mighty sound of ...
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