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I have never acknowledged the difference between 'serious' music and 'light' music.
I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.... (more Kurt Weill quotes)
"Lost in the Stars" is the only one of Weill's Broadway musicals to be filmed faithfully.
Weill emigrated from Germany to the US with the rise of Nazism. He was known for his use of highly unusual subject matter in musicals. Few of them were true hits. "The Threepenny Opera", written in cooperation with Bertolt Brecht, which premiered in Germany (1928), introduced the song "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" and became a hit. In its first American production on Broadway, it flopped in 1933, but beca... (more Kurt Weill trivia)
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