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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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Favoriting September 8, 2023: Blitzstein Bop

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Carol Channing  Fraught   Favoriting Live broadcast  No Label  1941  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blizstein    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
The Brooklyn Philharmonic  Piano Concerto: III. Adagio ma non troppo   Favoriting Picker & Blitzstein: Works for Piano and Orchestra  Anthology of Recorded Music  1988  Music: Marc Blitzstein 
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0:11:49 (Pop-up)
Leonard Lehrman  Piano Sonata   Favoriting Blitzstein: Music for Solo Piano, 1918-1963  Toccata  2019  Music: Marc Blitzstein 
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0:16:51 (Pop-up)
Leonard Lehrman  Cain (Excerpts): No. 10, Dance of Noema   Favoriting Blitzstein: Music for Solo Piano, 1918-1963  Toccata  2019  Music: Marc Blitzstein 
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0:24:12 (Pop-up)
Sarah Cahill & Del Sol Quartet  Serenade for String Quartet: Largo I   Favoriting First Life: The Rare Early Works  Other Minds  2009  Music: Marc Blitzstein    0:27:21 (Pop-up)
Sarah Cahill & Del Sol Quartet  Quartet for Strings, "Italian": Allegro   Favoriting First Life: The Rare Early Works  Other Minds  2009  Music: Marc Blitzstein    0:32:24 (Pop-up)
 
Gerald Price  The Ballad of Mack the Knife   Favoriting The Threepenny Opera (Original Off Broadway Cast)  Jay Productions Ltd.  2007  Music: Kurt Weill Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht (translated into English by Marc Blitzstein) 
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0:48:48 (Pop-up)
Lotte Lenya & Studio Orchestra  Pirate Jenny   Favoriting Leonard Bernstein: Historic Broadcasts, 1946-1961  West Hill Radio Archives  2013  Music: Kurt Weill Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht (translated into English by Marc Blitzstein) 
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0:52:34 (Pop-up)
William Sharp & Steven Blier  The New Suit   Favoriting Blitzstein: Zipperfly and Other Songs  Koch  1991  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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1:04:56 (Pop-up)
Lawrence Brownlee  Stay in My Arms   Favoriting Live Recording  No Label  2021  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein    1:06:18 (Pop-up)
 
Marc Blitzstein  Marc Blitzstein Discusses "The Cradle Will Rock"   Favoriting           1:11:08 (Pop-up)
Matt Boehler & Brian Wallin  Freedom of the Press   Favoriting The Cradle Will Rock  Bridge Records  2018  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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1:23:25 (Pop-up)
Cradle Will Rock Ensemble  Art for Art's Sake   Favoriting Cradle Will Rock (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)  BMG Entertainment  1999  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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1:27:10 (Pop-up)
Patti LuPone  The Nickel Under Your Foot   Favoriting The Cradle Will Rock  Jay Productions Ltd.  1999  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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1:30:11 (Pop-up)
Ali Mandelbaum  Joe Worker   Favoriting The Cradle Will Rock (Complete 1937 Score - 1994 Los Angeles Cast Recording)  Blank Theatre Company  2011  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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1:32:50 (Pop-up)
 
Juno Ensemble  We're Alive   Favoriting Juno (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Sony Music Entertainment  1959  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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1:43:04 (Pop-up)
Melvyn Douglas & Jack MacGowran  What Is the Stars   Favoriting Juno (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Sony Music Entertainment  1959  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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1:44:35 (Pop-up)
Eddie Albert  Thank You   Favoriting Reuben Reuben (bootleg)  No Label  1955  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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Paul Robeson  American Day   Favoriting Native Land  No Label  1942  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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Orson Welles & New York Philharmonic  Airborne Symphony: IX. Air Force: Ballad of Hurry-Up   Favoriting Marc Blitzstein: The Airborne Symphony  Sony Music Entertainment Inc  1976  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:01pm
TonyR:

So this is either punk musicals or a trib to somebody else I didn't know passed.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
WR:

Bop! Blitzstein! Darn, gotta work. Hopefully can listen some.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:02pm
Listener Gregory:

I am strangely here.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi First Nighters!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

Carol Channing Channeling Bea Lillie!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:03pm
TonyR:

1st night of new season?
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:04pm
TonyR:

No more C&W from the orchestra before curtain?
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:04pm
Listener Gregory:

I was driven off my porch this afternoon by heavy rain driven horizontal. Serious storm.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:05pm
TonyR:

Is this gonna be on the test?
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:05pm
Listener Gregory:

Everything has to do with death!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:06pm
TonyR:

So, NOT too soon.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

The "Cradle Will Rock" movie is good fun, but it's about the show not a filmed version of the show. en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:06pm
TonyR:

Always with the death, this WFMU.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:08pm
TonyR:

It's not cricket to picket.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ TonyR @7:08
[Harold Rome reference of the day]
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:11pm
TonyR:

I thought BB was headed for "I thought, 'Why not trib them while they're still here with us?'"

Alas, no.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

Blitzstein and Kurt Weill share a birthday, March 2nd, but he was 5 years younger.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:13pm
TonyR:

The kids are losing their minds....
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:16pm
WR:

Not his birthday, not his death day? Let's celebrate the work because we love the work and want to celebrate it? Love it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:17pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

exactly!!!!

also hello darlings!!!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:18pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Piano Concerto: III. Adagio ma non troppo" by "Th...
I liked that! It was all over the place.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:18pm
TonyR:

↳ WR @7:16
If you say so. [Rassin' Frassin'...]
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:22pm
Listener Gregory:

I looked up the origin of the phrase "What fresh hell is this?", attributed to Dorothy Parker. Although similar sayings predated hers, her use of it definitely popularized it. Interestingly, she used to say it when the doorbell rang or at other unexpected events that were not yet hellish.
(I cannot think of another comment board that is more appropriate to share this information. Probably Blitzstein and Parker knew one another [stab in the dark].)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:23pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I would love to party in the afterlife with parker and blitzstein
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:24pm
TonyR:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:22
I'd thumbs-up if I were on the phone.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:28pm
TonyR:

↳ TonyR @7:24
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Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:30pm
TonyR:

Silence post-Quartet?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
WR:

something strange just happened. The app got "bad format error" or something like that and then dropped to the auto stream, wait, now back to the string quartet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

is it not playing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

ok phew
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:31pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:31
Oh dear. I got a dose of Blitzstein-meets-Afropop for a brief period. Damn internet!
Back now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

that sounds intriguing
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:32pm
TonyR:

I also had to restart the stream on the official app on my ancient tablet which will one day explode in my hands.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:32pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ TonyR @7:28
Thanks. Next time we'll have to do the show via text message.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:33pm
TonyR:

I didn't tryy turning it off then on again. Because that takes 10 minutes.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:34pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Quartet for Strings, "Italian": Allegro" by "Sara...
Ms. Bishop, why is this credited to Sarah Cahill & Del Sol Quartet if it is a work for String Quartet? The artist listing sounds like five musicians, quartet + Cahill.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:35pm
TonyR:

NOBODY puts Sarah Cahill in a corner!
Avatar 7:41pm
Bob Barth:

Hey gang! Hello lady BB.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:41pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:34
OK, thanks! I really liked the quartet and orchestral pieces.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:42pm
Listener Gregory:

Bronwyn, you are so good at pronouncing Blitzstein. If you said Bernstein the same way, you would make me the happiest listener in the world.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:49pm
TonyR:

I was going to ask if it rhymed with "Springsteen" or "philistine"
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

[and] the shark: he has teeth, and he carries them in his face. [and] Macheath, he has a knife, but you don't see the knife.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:50pm
TonyR:

Lotte's mopping up the place.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

We usually play the Nina Simone Jenny here on WFMU.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:51pm
TonyR:

If we can have an all "Summertime" AJH....
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:53pm
doctorjazz:

Been listening in the car, nice, now some live music. (Tommy Emmanuel).
Thanks BB.
Great weekend all!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 7:53pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:53
Tommy Emmanuel??
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

Alabama Song is in Brecht's idea of English.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:57pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:53
tommyemmanuel.com...
Yup! Amazing guitar player!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @7:57
(And it's in New Brunswick, Joisey, didn't even have to schlep to NYC! (Will schlep there tomorrow night, though...)
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:00pm
TonyR:

I was last in NB on Sandy Eve.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:01pm
doctorjazz:

Ok, bye all!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:01pm
WR:

Laters doc!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:06pm
TonyR:

dj always has some excuse for cutting out early.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:07pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ TonyR @8:06
We're just jealous of all the live music he's hearing.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:08pm
TonyR:

Did the air con go out, too?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:09pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:07
And his energy, bike rides, bbqs, concerts.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:09pm
Listener Gregory:

BB, you might check out Dawn Upshaw's album of Broadway songs, I Wish It So, which contains a number of Blitzstein songs (along with Weill, Bernstein, & Sondheim).
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:09pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @8:09
Also spouse and creative children. And dog.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:10pm
TonyR:

The dog was a beard.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:11pm
TonyR:

Oh, wait. Are you talking about dj or MB?
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:11pm
TonyR:

People. People with things to do....
are the luckiest people.
  8:20pm
Listener Gregory:

This is fantastic.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:22pm
TonyR:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:20
^This.
Avatar 8:29pm
Richard from Venezuela:

Good evening
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

It's good to skip around the productions...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:31pm
Webhamster Henry:

I always liked the dialog that leads into Nickel Under the Foot
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Richard from Venezuela @8:29
good evening richard!!!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:39pm
Listener Gregory:

I used the word "gyp" until I was in my 40s, and only then did someone tell me what the derivation was. Urk!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 8:41pm
TonyR:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:39
I was today years old when I found out.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:47pm
WR:

↳ TonyR @8:41
Me too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:47pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

yep i used to say it and didn't find out until recently either
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

Blitzstein's music was often complicated but singable! (Like Eisler's)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54pm
WR:

↳ Song: "American Day" by "Paul Robeson"
A "private" recording? Didn't know recording of this existed.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
WR:

LG, I take it back, Herbie Hancock has more Grammys (can't count that high) than he has honorary doctorates (7 and counting).
www.herbiehancock.com...
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 9:01pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @9:00
Oh, man! Now I have to retract my statement to the press! This is going to take some time to resolve.
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 9:02pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @9:00
In future, when I am commenting, please leave the misinformation to me. I proudly provide some every show.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
WR:

Thank you! Bronwyn!
Avatar 🎭 ♥ 9:04pm
Listener Gregory:

Whoops! Thanks a lot, Bronwyn! Excellent and informative show.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks! Nice to concentrate a little!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
WR:

As soon as this archives I'm going to listen again, without work interrupting and distracting me. Thanks again, Bronwyn!
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