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	Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.
		Mahagonny is threatened by a hurricane at the end of Act 1, which despite much anticipation and causing much distress simply bypasses the city.
		The most notable of these is the threat of a hurricane approaching the city during the first act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aufstieg_und_Fall_der_Stadt_Mahagonny (479 words)

	Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
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		Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (German for: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
		In three acts Mahagonny is threatened by a hurricane at the end of Act 1, and Act 2 following the hurricane nothing is forbidden and various scenes of debauchery occur.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Rise_and_Fall_of_the_City_Mahagonny.html (286 words)

	The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Begbick -- on the lam from the police found the city of Mahagonny in a desolate area in America.
		Mahagonny is soon threatened by a hurricane, which unleashes even more anarchy among its residents.
		After his execution, catastrophes of all kinds befall Mahagonny, and the citizenry marches forward, crying that we "cannot help ourselves or you or anyone" as the curtain falls.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/06/19606/features.php (332 words)

	IBS: Symposium 2003
		Between 1927 and 1929 Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborated on the Songspiel Mahagonny and the opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
		Net-city Mahagonny catches people who are "plucked" and consumed - as the "city of pleasure" (Scene 10) it snares them with promises of bliss, with the ecstasy of consumption, with electronic media and telecommunications, with traffic systems and roadway networks.
		"Mahagonny" is, then, model and metaphor for the modern "asylums of homeless intellectuals"; it is the place that satisfies the eternal dreams of the upwardly mobile and anticipates a destructive principle of entertainment.
	german.lss.wisc.edu /brecht/symposium2003.htm (2382 words)

	"The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" To Be Performed in a Pittsburgh Debut
		Carnegie Mellon's leading schools of Music and Drama will present the Pittsburgh premiere of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" Jan. 29 - Feb. 1, in the Philip Chosky Theater in the university's Purnell Center for the Arts.
		"The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," which combines classical, jazz and folk elements, premiered in Germany in 1930.
		In the city of Mahagonny profit and pleasure are the ultimate pursuits, and the implications for a society organized on this value system are the overarching theme of the opera.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/040123_pghpremiere.html (367 words)

	Weill Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		With The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny he forged a new kind of opera (or in the case of the former, music-theatre) that sealed the validity and general acceptance of drawing on popular elements and fusing them into a more serious tradition and subject-matter.
		Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, 1927-1929) was a development of the Mahagonny Songspiel, and includes the music of the earlier work.
		Set in a fantastical and ungeographical America in the city of the title, designed by Alaskan trappers as a place of pleasure, it attacks the pretensions of the bourgeoisie and on the false allure of capitalism.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /mmorris/402/weill_works.htm (2183 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Lowell House Opera Conjures Brecht and Weill's City of Sin
		The trio invent the name "Mahagonny," (meaning "city of nets," according to the characters) and fill the city with workers, criminals, pimps and prostitutes, offering weary adventurers a life of pure hedonism.
		After his execution the city falls apart; its citizens' total freedom has intensified their ideological differences, and the center cannot hold.
		Although this "Mahagonny" differes in several ways from the authors' original intentions and was beset by a number of minor problems, it was on the whole an excellent performance.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=93110 (871 words)

	Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jim falls in love with Jenny, for whom he pays $30, but Mahagonny is threatened by a hurricane and by the police in pursuit of Mrs Begbick.
		The hurricane passes and now nothing is barred in Mahagonny, with gluttony, love turning to lust and prize-fights to the death.
		In essence an attack on capitalism, it gave rise to protests from National Socialist Party supporters in 1930 and the following years, to be banned in Germany, with other works of Weill and Brecht, from 1933.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Aufstieg_und_Fall_der_Stadt_Mahagonny(Rise_and_Fall_of_the_City_of_Mahagonny).htm (328 words)

	Arbeitsstelle Bertolt Brecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At that time: city of misery and of capitalist fascination under the sign of America; today: city of global economic systems and transnational information flow; in between: city of catastrophes — menacing, destructive, seductive.
		Net-city Mahagonny catches people who are “plucked” and consumed — as the “city of pleasure” (Scene 10) it snares them with promises of bliss, with the ecstasy of consumption, with electronic media and telecommunications, with traffic systems and roadway networks.
		Fun, amusement, leisure-time activity — “Mahagonny” corresponds and plays with the “day dreams” of the 1920s, especially as they were described and examined by Siegfried Kracauer in his essays (“Cult of Distraction”).
	www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de /~brecht/aktuell/mahagon_eng.html (1306 words)

	Harry Smith Archives / Mahagonny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anthology Film Archives is proud to present the American premiere of the newly restored masterpiece by Harry Smith, FILM #18, MAHAGONNY, as part of a nine-day tribute to the multi-faceted experimental filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist.
		Based on the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, the film is an epic, four-screen projection which the filmmaker considered to be his magnum opus and described as a mathematical analysis of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass.
		MAHAGONNY is an allegory of contemporary life; it explores the needs and desires of man amid the rituals of daily life in New York City.
	www.harrysmitharchives.com /4_news/mahagonny_ny.html (399 words)

	Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1998) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The city attracts many prospectors, lured by the attractions of cheap whiskey and the aforesaid whores.
		The city is narrowly missed by a hurricane which causes Jimmy to declare that, since they have been spared, anything goes and all restrictions should be abandoned.
		In The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht seem to eschew any sense of irony or satire and present us with a simple story of the horrors of capitalism.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0260714 (679 words)

	The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Seven Deadly Sins, Arcade Publishing
		The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Seven Deadly Sins
		In The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,Brecht’s parable of greed and indifference, Mahagonny is a boomtown fusing Miami with Sodom and Gomorrah.
		Founded on the principle that it is easier to prospect gold from people’s pockets than from the earth, it is a city threatened with catastrophe but also obsessed with pleasure and the problem of how to pay for it.
	www.arcadepub.com /book?GCOI=55970100645550 (254 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mahagonny: Search Results All Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht (Author) (Hardcover - January 1976)
		Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny [IMPORT] (September 28, 1999 - VHS)
		The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the S Even Deadly Sins by Bertolt Brecht (Author), et al (Paperback - October 1996)
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/external-search?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE&search-type=ss&index=blended&tag=cuscom0b-20&keyword=Mahagonny (431 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The first half of the opera narrates the founding of Mahagonny by "fugitives from justice," ending with the inhabitants' brush with nature: a hurricane, which threatens to destroy the city but turns away at the last minute.
		As the city rises and later falls, the inhabitants of Mahagonny expressively bemoan their lot (with Italianate ornaments) against a tarantella ostinato.
		This was a quick and dirty "Mahagonny," offset only by the affecting diffidence that Jenny (Jane Hammett) brought to her amatory interactions with Jimmy.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/mahagonny_5_30_00.html (661 words)

	Lowell House Plans Opera
		The company settled on The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
		But as the city transforms from idyll to a place of sin and excess -- where you can do anything you want as long as you can afford it -- Jimmy's life deteriorates.
		The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny will open with a fl-tie evening on March 6.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1996/02.29/LowellHousePlan.html (415 words)

	Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny - Weill/Brecht
		It bears the flag - with a hole in its center - of Mahagonny, it allows various characters a place to climb in the highly choreographed staging, and it becomes the execution post for Jim Mahoney.
		A bare stage background is used for other scenes, with occasional panels, banners, even a chandelier that rises out of the orchestra pit.
		The visual interest is focused in the costuming and movement of both individual characters and the chorus, often decked out in white tie and Mickey Mouse masks, projecting just the right ironical tone of forced happiness, fully appropriate for the city of Mahagonny.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Mahagonny.htm (749 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald to Star in Mahagonny at L.A. Opera
		The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny was originally presented in Leipzig in 1930.
		The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, according to the Kurt Weill Foundation, "begins with three criminals on the run from the law.
		Anything goes in Mahagonny — drinking, gambling, sex — and the town is soon populated by various kinds of hedonists.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/3292.html (644 words)

	Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
		The story of Mahagonny begins with three criminals on the run from the law.
		Mahagonny survives a typhoon at the end of act 1, and act 2 depicts various scenes of debauchery, until Jimmy discovers that he cannot pay his bills.
		Then he is sentenced to death (in a court where murderers go free), and discontent destroys the city, which burns as the inhabitants march away carrying placards of protest, although they have nowhere to go.
	www.kwf.org /pages/works/a8main.html (441 words)

	The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. -- The Free-Reed Journal: Performing in Kurt Weill's Opera "Mahagonny"
		I recently had the distinguished pleasure of performing with the Carnegie Mellon University Orchestra and vocalists from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in four performances of Kurt Weill's rarely-performed 1930 opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
		In the fictional city of Mahagonny, profit and pleasure are the ultimate pursuits.
		The Carnegie Mellon University production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny was the first time the work had been staged in Pittsburgh.
	www.ksanti.net /free-reed/essays/mahagonny.html (716 words)

	West Bay's 'Rise & Fall' opens Friday -- Los Altos Town Crier
		Jane Hammett, left, and Jay Fraley star in West Bay Opera's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," opening Friday.
		Weill's own blend of popular song, rag time rhythm and daring harmony is said to perfectly support Bertolt Brecht's cynical vision of the ultimate capitalist city, where murder is a misdemeanor and the only deadly crime is running out of money.
		The music director for "Rise and Fall" is David Sloss, with set design by Peter Crompton, lighting by Chad Bonaker and costumes by Callie Floor.
	latc.com /2000/05/24/special_sect/stepping4.html (253 words)

	Weill - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny / Davies, Hadley, Jones, Malfitano, Salzburg Festival Opera : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Weill - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny / Davies, Hadley, Jones, Malfitano, Salzburg Festival Opera
		Certainly Mahagonny was one such place, but in Weill´s mind, it existed in the tropical (indeed, even with hurricanes) American South.
		Although the leading performers in this "Mahagonny" all have the acting chops to make their characters true and honest and exciting, they also must be true to the music and so we have many close-ups of their faces which, to be honest, are simply unflattering to the point of grotesquery.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B000025RBB.html (1939 words)

	AddALL.com - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny and the Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie
		AddALL.com - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny and the Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie
		Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny and the Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie
		In The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Brecht's parable of greed and indifference, Mahagonny is a boom-town fusing Miami with Sodom and Gomorrah.
	www.addall.com /detail/1559702796.html (318 words)

	Harry Smith's Film #18, Mahagonny (Research at the Getty)
		A mathematical analysis of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass expressed in terms of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
		His cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's caustically satirical opera is an allegory that explores human needs and desires amid the rituals of daily life in New York City.
		The film is a collage composed from a variety of film genres, intercutting portraits of important avant-garde figures, New York City landmarks, and Smith's visionary animation.
	www.getty.edu /research/scholarly_activities/events/mahagonny.html (321 words)

	Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Kurt Weill \| PBS
		In collaboration with Bertolt Brecht he composed "Little Mahagonny" (later expanded to become "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny") and then achieved success with "The Threepenny Opera" (1928).
		Although a massive hit in Germany, the show failed in the USA in 1933, but was well received when it was revived in 1954-55.
		In 1995, a new production of "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" was presented by the English National Opera at the Coliseum in London.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/stars/weill_k.html (542 words)

	WEILL Rise and Fall of mahagonny [RF]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) (1930)
		The composer’s first stage works involved various librettists prior to his collaboration with Brecht which commenced with ‘Mahagonny’ (1927), essentially a singspiel, and continued with ‘Die Dreigroschenoper’ (The Threepenny Opera) of 1928 and which topically transferred ‘The Beggars Opera’ (1728 by John Gay) to the Berlin of two centuries later.
		The ‘City of Mahagonny’ is really a development of the ‘singspiel’ of three years earlier and concerns the love affair of Jenny and Jimmy, which is based on cash as well as affection.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Nov03/Weill_Mahagonny.htm (674 words)

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