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The Berlin Requiem (Weill)

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based on some of Brecht's poems. A specific theme of the chosen texts is the forgotten dead, "faceless war casualties, or victims of violent crime whose bodies are disposed of in an undetected location", according to one writer. Some of the musical portion is quite spartan, with, for example, much of
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2006 0520931645 p.119 "Indeed, despite his frequent public calls for freedom of expression, Heilmann once before had been a crucial swing voter regarding a controversial cultural work: the Berlin Requiem, a set of morbid poems by Bertolt Brecht set to music by Kurt
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who intended to broadcast the work on all its stations. However Brecht failed to abide by his contractual obligation to show the poems to the commissioning body for advance approval and the content, some of it a memorial to
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1987 0521282454 p.68 "These were: The Berlin Requiem (for radio, in collaboration with Kurt Weill)"
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Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen: Als sie ertrunken war und hinunterschwamm
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Zweiter Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten: Alles, was ich euch sagte
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Erster Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten: Wir kamen von den Gebirgen
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Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
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Weill took a commission from Radio Frankfurt, producing the
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Grabschrift 1919: Die rote Rosa schon lang verschwand
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Kurt Weill
Bertolt Brecht
Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft
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