I’m a Stranger Here Myself     
   Ogden Nash
This Is New     
   Ira Gershwin
Lonely House    
   Langston Hughes
September Song  
   Maxwell Anderson
Foolish Heart       
   Ogden Nash
Mack the Knife/Marterl
    Marc Blitzstein & Bertolt Brecht
Speak Low   
   OgdenNash
Love Song  
   Alan Jay Lerner
Lost in the Stars  
   Maxwell Anderson 
Pirate Jenny  
   English:  Marc Blitzstein
Youkali  
   Roger Fernay

“I sing a song about forever, only a song about forever.”
“Love Song,”  Alan Jay Lerner and Kurt Weill

Welcome to the Kurt Weill Project’s   A Song about Forever.

              When Kurt Weill came to America, he decided to remake the American musical. He knew he’d need collaborators
               ("I need poetry to set my imagination in motion") and found the best writers the United States had to offer, including
               Langston Hughes, Maxwell Anderson, Alan Jay Lerner, and Ira Gershwin. Kurt Weill became one of the most versatile
and influential American theater composers of the twentieth century.

              A Song about Forever is a jazz-based exploration of Kurt Weill’s songs, with a nod towards their musical theater roots.
                We sincerely hope you discover some songs you might not have heard before and rediscover songs you have known
       but now feel brand new. These songs are about forever, and each will be a song you’ll love.

"Here, those songs are interpreted by a quartet that puts obvious knowledge and love into their performances."
"Her voice is full and expressive"
- Kyle O'Brien, Jazz Society of Oregon

"The instrumentalists are generally laidback rather than forceful. They
are exploratory with the music, rarely satisfied to just restate the basic melody."

"A soprano, her voice can be clear or take on a smoky quality and she is particularly effective with
sustained tones, with an attractive vibrato she uses judiciously."
- Rob Lester, Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice: A Collection of Collections Singing the Praises of Songwriters