That was c3po surely?
Before you lynch me, 3pO was 1928, Mahogany was 1929 (from two
seperate sources on the web via our google masters).
On 12/22/05, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The story about Lenya meeting Stratas is true. The latter was making a
> > specialty of Jenny in Mahagonny, Lenya created the role in 1920something.
>
> I'm getting a little confused here, Ken -- I thought (Pirate) Jenny was what
> Lotte Lenya sang in +Threepenny Opera+. "Surabaya Johnny" is (indeed) from
> Mahagony -- isn't it the only song there which was originally written in
> English?
>
> The top of my head says 3dO was thirties, and Mahagony was later, written
> when Brecht/Weill had skipped to the States. I think I have a CD of the
> original performance of 3dO, and another from the fifties when LL's voice
> was virtually gone, and Mahagony on tape -- isn't the twenties a little
> early?
>
> But (almost certainly) I've managed to screw this up in my head -- can you
> uncrumple this much-crumpled thing?
>
> Robin
>
> > As I heard it she presented herself to the younger soprano backstage,
> > after a performance, and all but ordained her as a priestess of the cult
> > of Brecht & Weill. She gave Stratas access to all the unpublished
> > material her husband left in a bank vault. Stratas recorded a CD called
> > The Unknown Kurt Weill which included some wonderful music as well as junk
> > like "Schickelgruber." When Lenya was in the last throes of lung cancer,
> > a true agony, Stratas cancelled chunks of her performing scheduled to
> > nurse her, slept by her bed, was with her when she died. Separate love
> > from madness, I dare you....
> >
> > Ken
>
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