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With time and money to relax, Rocky found that he enjoyed being a family man. Last week, after breaking the news to his manager, Al Weill, he announced that he was going to quit the ring while he still had his title and his health. He is the only heavyweight champion ever to retire without a defeat on his record...
...appearance of this song as an American jazz hit marks the end of a remarkable odyssey; Mack the Knife, originally the prologue of Kurt Weill's famed Threepenny Opera, was first heard in Berlin 28 years ago. It also marks a remarkable revival, on records, of Kurt Weill's other music-the legacy of a strange, half-angry, half-sentimental genius...
Underdog Snarl. Most of Weill's early opera music was the song of Berlin between the wars, the city that Christopher Isherwood wrote about in the Berlin Stories-starvation side by side with luxury, Nazi and Communist bullyboys in the streets, cynicism as heavy as the makeup on the faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar...
...Columbia LP, Lotte Lenya sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill; the composer's widow does Mack the Knife and other Threepenny ditties as they should be done. Fiftyish, and after two years of starring in a successful New York revival of the work, Lotte Lenya still sings with a smoky, strangely appealing quality that always suggests the waif beneath the cynic...
Alabama Mama. The record includes songs from other Weill musicals that are virtually unknown in the U.S., most of them close echoes of Threepenny Opera tunes. Composer Weill (who died in the U.S. in 1950) grew lyrical, sentimental and popular in such musicals as Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars. But in this album he is still the unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying...