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Saturday, September 6, 2025

For Peggy Noonan:  Entering Weimar

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:17 pm

A Letterman intro — "Franklin, Sally . . . Sally, Franklin."

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Cold Open

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:25 pm

The previous post, on the Bauhaus 100th anniversary, suggests a review . . .

"Congratulations to the leaders of both parties:
The past 20 years you’ve taken us far.
We’re entering Weimar, baby."

— Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal
     on August 13, 2015
 

Image from yesterday's Log24 search Bauhaus Space.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Weimar, Baby!*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:42 pm

Happy birthday to composer John Kander, who turns 89 today.

NPR MUSIC INTERVIEWS

Broadway Composer John Kander Reflects On
A Career Of 'Hidden Treasures'

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, composer John Kander, along with his longtime lyricist, the late Fred Ebb, wrote the songs for the Broadway shows "Cabaret," "Chicago," "Flora The Red Menace," "Kiss Of The Spider Woman" and "The Scottsboro Boys," as well as the songs for Martin Scorsese's 1977 film "New York, New York." The title song was a big hit for Frank Sinatra.

GROSS: …. John Kander, what impact did writing the songs for "Cabaret" have on you as a secular Jew because it's— you know, it's set in Germany as the Nazis are coming to power.

KANDER: I don't think I ever thought about that. I think I thought about it [as] a piece of theater. So…

* See Noonan Weimar in this journal.

Friday, March 11, 2016

Adam’s Eve

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:29 am

(Continued)

"We're entering Weimar, baby." — Peggy Noonan

A photo from the eve  of the above exhibition's opening —

A Log24 post from the day  of the above exhibition's opening —

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Spacey

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

"We're entering Weimar, baby." — Peggy Noonan

"It's there for the weight, dear." 

Sunday, January 17, 2016

New York Values

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

The phrase "experimental techniques" in the previous post
suggests the following words and images.

From The New York Times  online this evening —

"Think 'Barton Fink' meets 'A Serious Man.' 
With dancing."

Okay …

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10/100223-Rabbi.jpg

"When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies…."

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110714-BauhausRoof.jpg

"We're entering Weimar, baby."
— Peggy Noonan

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