"A simple story of everyday life in a big city, a story of love and passion and greed and death." That was how Kurt Weill described Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Street Scene, set on the front stoop of a New York brownstone in sweltering summertime. Together with lyricist Langston Hughes, the left-wing poet and writer, Weill turned the drama into a gritty 1947 American opera, setting Rice's book against a score that offere…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:20PM on September 20, 2011