IT USED TO BE AN AXIOM AMONG THE MUSICAL establishment that Kurt Weill’s work for the American theater was inferior to his earlier European work. For years, critics and scholars smiled condescendingly on the pop chart success achieved by “September Song” (Knickerbocker Holiday) and “Speak Low” (One Touch of Venus) while bemoaning Weill’s unprincipled abandonment […]

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