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Love Life

on BBC Radio 3

Kurt Weill 's vaudeville in two parts to a text by Alan Jay Lemer. This show paints a portrait of life in America from the 1790s to 1940s through the transcending marriage of Sam and Susan Cooper. This first European stage production of the show was given last February at the Grand
Theatre, Leeds. Introduced by Piers Burton-Page .
Chorus of Opera North English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Wyn Davies Part
8.00 Piers Burton-Page talks to Lys Symonette, assistant to Kurt Weill on the original production of Love Life and now musical executive of the Kurt Weill
Foundation.
8.15 Part 2
Performance given in association with Manchester Airport

Contributors

Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Unknown:
Alan Jay Lemer.
Unknown:
Susan Cooper.
Introduced By:
Piers Burton-Page
Conductor:
Wyn Davies
Unknown:
Kurt Weill
The Magician/Vaudevillian Everyman:
Geoffrey Dolton (baritone)
Sam Cooper:
Alan Oke (tenor)
Susan Cooper:
Margaret Preece (sop)
Johnny Cooper:
Matthew Jameson (spoken)
Elizabeth Cooper:
Katiya Borlant (spoken)
Vaudevillians:
Nicholas Garrett (bass)
Vaudevillians:
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor)
Vaudevillians:
Trefor Glenn (tenor)
Vaudevillians:
Paul Wade (tenor)
Vaudevillians:
David Owen-Lewis (bass)
Vaudevillians:
Bruce Budd (bass)
Miss Ideal Man:
Susan Bisatt (sop)
Mr Cynic:
Peter Bodenham (tenor)

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