Karen Kohler, voice Daryl Kojak, piano Recorded live at Rose Hall at Lincoln Center, NYC, on opening night of the 2023 Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention. Music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Opening monologue and English lyric translation by Karen Kohler. Photo above by James Gavin.
On Tuesday, OCTOBER 17, 2023 at 6pm, I'll be returning to Rose Hall at Lincoln Center for the opening night of the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention and our enticing evening honoring a German-American master composer in, "Speak Low: The Music of Kurt Weill." Stay tuned for details about my newest arrangement of Weill's classic Bilbao Song (with lyrics by Bertholt [...]
On Tuesday, OCTOBER 17, 2023, I'll be returning to Rose Hall at Lincoln Center for the opening night of the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention and our enticing evening honoring a German-American master composer in, "Speak Low: The Music of Kurt Weill." Stay tuned for details about my newest arrangement of Weill's classic Bilbao Song (with lyrics by Bertholt Brecht). [...]
Jam and Spice: The Songs of Kurt Weill, Karen's first foray into the Kurt Weill Songbook debuted on July 13, 1999 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church with her own Orchester Simpl, a 10-member ensemble led by conductor and arranger Robert Renee Galvan. Karen performed tributes to Weill during the centenary of his birth as follows: November 9, 1999 [...]
