Bremner Duthie to Sing the Songs of Kurt Weill at Don't Tell Mama

By: Dec. 13, 2016
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Acclaimed cabaret singer Bremner Duthie & a swinging trio led by pianist Luke Marantz, celebrate the dark, decadent and always lovely music of Kurt Weill, with songs from his dangerous 1920's Berlin collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, to his final works on Broadway in the 1940's on Sunday, January 8th at 7pm.

Admission: $15.00, two drink minimum at Don't Tell Mama's, 343 W 46th Street, New York, NY. Call (212) 757-0788 or visit www.weillatheart.com for more information.

Bremner says: "I've been entranced by the music of Kurt Weill throughout my adult life. I've done shows about his darkness, his emotion and his passion. Weill at Heart is a cabaret/concert that shares my sheer delight in the marvellous complexity of Weill's music. I've sung his songs in lovely concert halls and dark, dilapidated saloons, accompanied by rock bands or with string quartets. I've never grown tired of his music. These new arrangements by Scotland's 'Artist of the Year', pianist David Patrick, translate Weill's distinctive style to a swinging Jazz Trio."

Kurt Weill: Eclectic, diverse and brilliant: Kurt Weill wrote extraordinary songs. Songs of all styles: desire and love, hatred and anger, hope and renewal. Why such eclectic brilliance? Unlike George Gershwin or Cole Porter, Kurt Weill (born in 1900) was marked by his youth in Germany in the 1920's, when that country was ripped apart by politics, racism and economic strife. In response, theatre, music and art stripped emotions raw and questioned everything, and Weill learned to shift between the sublime and the shocking in a heartbeat.

BREMNER was born in New York. Singing is all he ever wanted to do. Every afternoon his family could hear him coming as he sang his way home from school. He started with Punk bands, moved on to Opera, then trained in contemporary vocal music at the Centre for New Opera. Bremner has performed across North America and Europe working with chamber ensembles, orchestras and jazz quartets. He currently lives in New Orleans, exploring the birth of jazz.



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