KURT WEILL

Justin Fiacconi
Aug 31, 2018 · 5 min read

Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera”, like any work of genius, has both permanence and universality. But it is also intrinsically the product of a particular time and place, the Weimar Republic: it gave a voice to the cynicism rampant in Germany following upon the defeat of 1918 and a decade of social turmoil; it cocked a snook at establishment values; and it blended a traditional language of compositional technique with accessible but acerbic borrowings from the…

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Alphabeticon

"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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