The Emily Enigma: Helping Musicians Get Their Fair Share
Mack the Knife
Terry Teachout’s New Biography of Louis Armstrong
Armstrong modeled a lot of his phrasing on the opera singers of his youth
Terry Teachout has written a new scholarly, footnoted and highly enjoyable biography of the great Louis Armstrong
How The Doors Perceived Kurt Weill
Sixty years after his death, Weill's music continues to be performed both in popular and classical contexts.
A song that most fans of ’60s rock group The Doors attributed to the fertile and somewhat warped mind of lead singer Jim Morrison came from the fertile and equally warped minds of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
