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The 2007 production by the LA Opera that was released last year on DVD has won two Grammy awards: Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. As far as I can tell, this is the first DVD to win for Best Classical Album, because NARAS just started accepting Opera DVDs as sound recordings if there is no appropriate audio-only release of the same production. Should this be mentioned in the article for this opera? Benpatient ( talk) 20:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
The synopsis has been tagged as being too long. What do other people think? It looks fine to me. -- Klein zach 07:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
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Though glossed over, Kurt Well's Lider music used instruments that were novel (for orchestral use) at the time. His Lieder style is essetially Jazz Opera in instrumentation, but not like the Jazz Operas of Scott Joplin.
Use or lack of use of these instruments changes the sound of the performed music. Opera houses generally use the originally prescribed instruments, but musical theatre performance groups generally don't.
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I have read that the name Mahagonny is not based on the word "mahogony" but was rather invented to sound like a plausible American place-name. The statement in the article that it was based on the word "mahogony" has no reference. Can anyone find one? Otherwise, it should be removed. WordwizardW ( talk) 20:00, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
I have no proof for it and won't look for one. Unless Brecht himself made a statement somewhere, which I doubt he has, it's writer's imagination and there's nothing certain to say about it. But I would insist to leave a mention that the invented city's name is pronounced identically to the German word for mahogany (see https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanisches_Mahagoni if you wish). It cannot possibly be a coincidence, that's out of the question. Arminden ( talk) 12:25, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
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The 2007 production by the LA Opera that was released last year on DVD has won two Grammy awards: Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. As far as I can tell, this is the first DVD to win for Best Classical Album, because NARAS just started accepting Opera DVDs as sound recordings if there is no appropriate audio-only release of the same production. Should this be mentioned in the article for this opera? Benpatient ( talk) 20:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
The synopsis has been tagged as being too long. What do other people think? It looks fine to me. -- Klein zach 07:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
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Though glossed over, Kurt Well's Lider music used instruments that were novel (for orchestral use) at the time. His Lieder style is essetially Jazz Opera in instrumentation, but not like the Jazz Operas of Scott Joplin.
Use or lack of use of these instruments changes the sound of the performed music. Opera houses generally use the originally prescribed instruments, but musical theatre performance groups generally don't.
Notably used, not a complete or authoritative list
I have read that the name Mahagonny is not based on the word "mahogony" but was rather invented to sound like a plausible American place-name. The statement in the article that it was based on the word "mahogony" has no reference. Can anyone find one? Otherwise, it should be removed. WordwizardW ( talk) 20:00, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
I have no proof for it and won't look for one. Unless Brecht himself made a statement somewhere, which I doubt he has, it's writer's imagination and there's nothing certain to say about it. But I would insist to leave a mention that the invented city's name is pronounced identically to the German word for mahogany (see https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanisches_Mahagoni if you wish). It cannot possibly be a coincidence, that's out of the question. Arminden ( talk) 12:25, 7 July 2021 (UTC)