For their fourth production in the American Masterworks Series, the Oakland East Bay Symphony presents a concert version of Kurt Weill's Street Scene, a musical theater piece which received the first Tony Award for Best Original Score. Members of Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir will be featured under the direction of artistic director Robert Geary.
From the Oakland East Bay Symphony:
Best-known for his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht on The Threepenny Opera, Weill is one of the most innovative and influential theater composers of the twentieth century. In Street Scene, he mixes show tunes, jazz, arias, folk songs and spirituals to portray the passions and frustrations of a multi-ethnic New York City tenement block during two brutally hot days in the Depression era. With lyrics by the great Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist and playwright Langston Hughes, and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Elmer Rice,Street Scene is an important, vital work that builds to an explosive conclusion.
(Suitable for children 10 and over.)
Kurt Weill STREET SCENE American Opera in two acts.
Book by Elmer Rice, based on his play of the same name.
Lyrics by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice. Used by arrangement with European American Music Corporation, agent for The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc
