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[calimac]

I'll have to miss Redwood Symphony's production of Brecht and Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny next week. I'm not sure if that's a misfortune or a narrow escape. Brecht and Weill are brilliant, caustic artists, and I've never seen this show; but even The Threepenny Opera is a little too Weimarish for me, and this one seems more so.

So I made it up to Redwood by putting the concert as the forefront centerpiece of my upcoming season roundup for the Daily Journal today. Like most of these roundups, this is a workaday article whose virtues should be measured by how much information I was able to cram in to a limited space.

Comments

[asher63.livejournal.com]

Well, it certainly makes me want to see it!

Philip Glass is playing at Stanford? Darn, hate to miss that.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

It is, indeed, extremely Weimarish. I saw it at the Yale Rep while I was in school. It's about as harsh as musical theatre gets, barring cannibalism.

(I have not seen Sweeney Todd and don't think I could bear it, for personal reasons.)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I've already recently heard Glass perform on the piano, and speak, as reported here.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I love Mahagonny. But then, I love Brecht, for reasons not unconnected with adolescent deep exposure, et al.