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the many ways in which rain pours

and Beecham's interpretations arise out of the depths of the music itself

and the sometimes frighteningly dark and powerful final movement are in stark contrast to the symphony's initial warmth

Kurt Weill's Street Scene Format:Blu-ray Disc positive temperamentKurt Weill wrote Street Scene shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany to the United States. When he discovered the vitality of the American musical scene, his focus became to reconcile the Broadway "musical" with European traditional opera, jazzy and North American tunes with an almost Puccinian like lyricism. In his mind, opera had to embrace and reclaim it's own theatricality : thus he wrote his Street Scene, meant to be a truly American opera, half way

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