THE RIVER IS
BLUE
(unproduced film)
Composer: Kurt
Weill
Lyricist: Ann Ronell
Note: With a different script and music by Werner Janssen, the story was filmed and released under the title BLOCKADE. The incidental music Weill that composed for THE RIVER IS BLUE does not appear to have been retained.
The River Is So Blue (aka "The River Is Blue") (music based on the Tango tune of MARIE GALANTE and A KINGDOM FOR A COW):
1. Kurt Weill In America,
CD/Andrewsong AND-07 (Maude Maggart with musical conducted by Shelly
Markham)
2. Live, CD/Smax (Maude Maggart)
3. Going Solo, CD/Dazzle
Records 001 (Rebecca Varon)
4. The Joy Of Weill, CD/Joy Bogen (Joy Bogen
with musical direction by Paul Katz)
Unrecorded Songs:
Popular Song (in the style of a
Russian folk song with incomplete lyrics assumed to be by Ann
Ronell)
Soldiers Song