Evelin Förster Presents: “Sommerfrische (Bade)Chansons” From 1910–1930
The heat wave is back, in Germany at least. And the only appropriate way to cool off – operetta style!
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“Grüezi” As A Swiss Exile Answer To “Im Weissen Rössl” – An Interview With Melanie Gehrig Walthert & Reimar Walthert
First you’ve never heard of Grüezi at all, even though the artists who created it are all artists you’ve known
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“Grüezi” In Burgäschi & Zurich. Or: The Swiss Answer To “Im weißen Rössl”
Just when you think there cannot, possibly, be any more Im weißen Rössl stuff coming your way – there is!
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Nils Grosch & Carolin Stahrenberg: “Im weißen Rössl. Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven”
Over the past twenty years, German-speaking operetta has been enjoying a revival, especially Berlin operettas of the Weimar Republic by
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Christian Walther: “Robert Gilbert. Eine zeitgeschichtliche Biografie”
The lyricists behind our classic pop songs are generally unknown or forgotten. Robert Gilbert (pseuydonym of Robert Winterfeld, 1899–1978) wrote
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“Broadway Sampler: 1915.” Twenty-Five Musicals And Twenty-Six Songs
You might remember the CD series The Broadway Musicals of… created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel. They started, thematically,
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Jean Gilbert, Walter Kollo and Berlin Operetta After 1914
They were two of the most successful and influential operetta composers in Berlin: Jean Gilbert and Walter Kollo. One Jewish,
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