On the occasion of the 35th annual Oregon Festival of American Music’s celebration of the international cross-currents which helped shape Americn popular music, Siri Vik and colleagues revisit her 2019 faithfully-researched and staged re-creation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s final collaboration, The Seven Deadly Sins as premiered by George Balanchine’s short-lived dance company, Les Ballets in June 1933 in Paris as Les sept péchés capitaux. The ballet chanté is prefaced by a selection of songs from Mahagonny-Songspiel (1927), The Threepenny Opera (1928), Happy End (1929), and Rise And Fall of the City of Mahogonny (1930).
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Nathalie Fortin, pianoNathan Waddell, bassChico Schwall, banjo/guitarDaniel Cathey, clarinet 1Matthew Taylor, clarinet 2Christina Boorman, bassoonChristopher Mudd, hornAlex Shuffield, trumpetGlenn Griffith, tromboneAlwyn Wright, violinYvonne Hsueh, violinAndy Strietelmeier, violaKathryn Brunhaver, celloKeegan Vaughan, percussion |
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| | Alabama-Song (1927) Mahagonny-Songspiel Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann (w) Kurt Weill, Franz Servatius Bruinier (m) |
| | Bilbao-Song (1929) Happy End Bertolt Brecht (w) Kurt Weill (m) |
| | 2 Pride [Stolz] Memphis Anna I & Family |