September 12, 2001
Meredith Herald
Campus News.
Guest artists explore the music and
life of German composer
Jamie Tunnell
NtWS EWTOR
□ Music sympo
sium brings life and
works of German
composer to Mered
ith community.
The music department of
Meredith College has designat
ed this school year as the “Year
of Music”.
One of the first events is the
Kurt Weill Symposium that is
going on this week.
Kurt Weill (1900-1950) was
a German composer who came
to America during World War I
and became one of the key fig
ures in musical theatre.
After working in Paris and
Germany in his early career,
his shock at a pro-Nazi demon
stration led him to flee to Lou-
veciennes in 1934.
Weill traveled to New York
in September of 1935 and
remained in the United States
in the theatre scene to bring
Johnny Johnson and Knicker
bocker Holiday to the stage.
His first American song
“Setempler Song” was pro
duced shortly after.
After that point Weill pro
duced anti-war musical plays,
political satires and patriotic
pieces contributing to the w^
effort.
In the post-war years, Weill
produced Street Scene, Love
Life, Lost in the Stars and
Down in the Valley.
Two guests artists, Dirk
Weiler of New York City and
Patricia Martin of Essen, Ger
many. arc visiting this week to
share their expertise and
knowledge on Weill’s works
and life.
Martin teaches in Germany
and has conducted different
small-scale orchestras.
Weiler was a student of hers
and came to New York to
study. He won the international
Lotte Lenya Vocal Competi
tion, a program in honor of
Weill’s wife.
He is extremely knowledge
able in Weill and joins the
music department to provide
leadership this week on and off
stage.
Wendy Sims, a senior music
major, comments that Weiler is
“so amazing when he is lectur
ing and performing.”
“You’re almost embarrassed
Guest artists celebrate the life and works of German
composer Kurt Weill in a music symposium this week.
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to say that you are studying it
once he’s shown what he can
do,” she said.
The symposium focuses on
Weill’s German and American
works.
Another focus of this week
is Bertolt Brecht.
Brecht’s relationship to
Weill was to be a poetic source
and theatrical innovator.
Since they worked together
over the years, Susan Borwick
of Wake Forest University will
lecture on their collaboration
this Thursday, Sept. 13,2001 at
7 p.m.
Lectures and extensive
rehearsals have been going on
all week to bring you two per
formances this week.
A performance of Weill’s
early works will take place at
8:00 p.m. in Jones.Auditorium.
This will cover his time in
Germany and have an underly
ing theme of the political strug
gles of World War L
On Friday night, the second
portion of the program will
show Weill’s American works
in the final years of his life.
This performance will include
the lighter works and post-war
show tunes that he produced.
Meredith Mabe, another
senior music major, will be
singing Weill’s “I’m A Stranger
Here Myself’ from his broad-
way musical One Touch of
Venus for the Friday perfor
mance. She plays Venus, the
Goddess of Love, who gets
rejected for the First time.
“I think it will be a good
show,” she said. “1 learned a lot
about the character 1 am por
traying and Weill’s work.”
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