Listen: Steven Taubeneck on Ute Lemper’s Music

Ute Lemper’s performing career grows out of a passionate and enduring commitment to art, politics and history, and out of a contentious and complicated relationship with her homeland and its past. Her panache, versatility and sophisticated repertoire – including Berlin cabaret songs and the dark gems of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill – have led her to international acclaim as a recording artist and in the theatre, cabaret and film worlds.

In this pre-show talk, Steven Taubeneck discusses Ute Lemper’s music and influences, as well as the evening’s program which crosses national and stylistic borders to mix Weimar chansons and the classical works they influenced.

This talk took place on March 24, 2012, prior to the Chan Centre presentation of Ute Lemper.

 

5 Pieces

 

Edith Piaf

 

Kurt Weill

 

The Weimar Republic

 

Hanns Eisler

 

Chava Alberstein

 

Piazzolla

 

Jacques Brel

 

Uta Lemper