there’s a lot more stuff up on nrk.no, including a phenomenal brecht concert by gisela may at the bergen music festival in 1974. i’m a big fan of bertolt brecht & kurt weill, well for the past couple of years anyway, and was thrilled to get this on video. for my car, i’ve demuxed it & tracked it. the car will get mp3’s but here it is in the original audio format (but not video, sorry, that’s 1.4 gb).
i should maybe look more into german music hall songs of the 20s & 30s. somewhere, i have a russian group singing a lot of inter-war german songs, which i really enjoyed as well. one of these fine days… .. .
gisela may
national theatre
bergen, norway
1974 (exact date unknown, probably sometime in july 1974)
gisela may – vocals
unidentified musicians from berliner ensemble – piano, flute, accordion, etc
interview
00 interview by eyvind solås
time 9:03
part 1
01 00:00 gm intro to first few songs, from “happy end”
02 01:00 was die herrn matrosen sagen [happy end]
03 05:00 bilbao song [happy end]
04 10:11 surabaya johnny [happy end]
05 14:43 denn wie man sich bettet (meine herren, meine mutter prägte)
[aufstieg und fall der stadt mahagonny / rise & fall of the city of mahagonny]
06 18:18 gm intro
07 18:55 das lied der eisenbahntruppe von fort donald
08 22:54 gm intro to next few songs, from “die dreigroschenoper” (the threepenny opera)
09 23:39 barbarasong (der song vom nein und ja) [dreigroschenoper]
10 28:59 gm intro to next song
11 29:26 ballade von der sexuellen hörigkeit [dreigroschenoper]
12 32:11 seeräuberjenny [dreigroschenoper]
13 36:27 gm intro
14 37:52 zu potsdam unter den eichen
time 40:18
part 2
15 00:00 telphoning (a)
16 11:38 gm into
17 12:22 ballade von der judenhure marie sanders
18 14:35 mein sohn was immer auch aus dir werde
19 17:35 gm intro
20 17:51 lied vom achten elefanten
21 20:33 gm intro to next 4 songs, from schweyk im zweiten weltkrieg
22 21:19 das lied von der moldau [schweyk]
23 22:43 das lied vom kleinen wind [schweyk]
24 24:34 komm und setz dich, lieber gast [schweyk]
25 26:26 und was bekam des soldaten weib [schweyk] (b)
26 29:23 gm intro
27 29:48 o fallada, da du hangest (ein pferd klagt an)
28 32:31 gm intro
29 33:45 friedenslied
30 35:30 (clapping until end)
(a) performance (with minimal props) of an extract from a work by brecht. thanks for any help identifying.
(b) gm introduces the song as “und was bekam des nazisoldaten weib”. online, i find “soldaten” (with one
youtube exception), and that’s what’s in the lyric; but i don’t know which version of the title is correct.
time: 36:05
total time: 85:26
video source: nrk webcast > adobehds php downloader > .flv video
no re-encoding has been applied, the adobehds.php downloader is a script for downloading .flv video streams.
demux source: as above > ffmpeg (demux to .m4a) > ffmpeg (track) > tracked .m4a files
ffmpeg syntax, using start times & durations calculated from video track start-times above.
demux: ffmpeg -y -i “inputfile.flv” -vn -acodec copy “outputfile.m4a”
track: ffmpeg -y -accurate_seek -ss 35:30 -i “outputfile.m4a” -vn -acodec copy -t 00:30 “outputtrack.m4a”
sample: t14 zu potsdam unter den eichen.mp3
download: GiselaMay_1974-07-xx_SongsOfBertoltBrecht_Bergen_demux.zip
i’ve been listening to monty alexander all day, except when talking to people (a lot) or away (a bit). been working very well for me today. just… nice. (probably shouldn’t use that word. cheerful, maybe? pleasant without being smooth jazz? i don’t know.) this one, the last, got the most smiles. despite which, ‘smile’ is not the sample.
