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Ute Lemper Still Sings Songs of Rebellion. The Stakes Are Still High.

The German-born cabaret performer’s latest album celebrates the 125th anniversary of Kurt Weill’s birth, yoking classics to the language of today’s music.

By Elysa Gardner

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Brecht, Bertolt Carnegie Hall Classical Music Cleveland Orchestra Ensemble Modern Gruber, H K Hindemith, Paul Knights, The Korngold, Erich Wolfgang Krenek, Ernst Lemper, Ute Mahler, Gustav Schoenberg, Arnold Stravinsky, Igor Vienna Philharmonic Weill, Kurt

At Carnegie Hall, Weimar Is Irresistible but Vaguely Defined

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory.

By Zachary Woolfe