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Mother Courage and her Children is a 2010 album by Duke Special, featuring the songs he composed and performed for the National Theatre's 2009 production of Berthold Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children, [1] with Brecht's lyrics translated by Tony Kushner.
Mother Courage is one of nine plays that Brecht wrote in resistance to the rise of Fascism and Nazism. In response to the invasion of Poland by the German armies of Adolf Hitler in 1939, Brecht wrote Mother Courage in what writers call a "white heat"—in a little over a month. [4] As the preface to the Ralph Manheim/John Willett Collected ...
Mary Elizabeth Jones (February 8, 1902 – July 17, 1984) [1] was an American gospel and folk singer credited with helping to bring folk songs, games and stories to wider audiences in the 20th century. Alan Lomax, who first encountered Jones on a field recording trip in 1959, said, "She was on fire to teach America. In my heart, I call her the ...
Best known for songs like "End of the Road," "I'll Make Love to You" and "One Sweet Day," Boyz II Men also had a hit with "A Song for Mama," a 1997 song about a mother's steadfast love and support.
Add these touching songs about moms to your Mother's Day playlist in 2024. The best Mother's Day songs are sweet, heartfelt, and sometimes sassy!
The Silent World of Hector Mann is a 2010 album by Duke Special, featuring songs inspired by the fictional silent film star Hector Mann from Paul Auster's 2002 novel The Book of Illusions, who starred in twelve films before disappearing.
From Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" to "Hey Mama" by Kanye West , here are the 52 best songs to play for your mom on Mother's Day.
In 2006 she wrote incidental music for Kushner's new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which was produced as part of the 2006 Shakespeare in the Park season staged at the Delacorte Theater by The Public Theater. [10] In the summer of 2011, their opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck premiered at Glimmerglass.