Blog: PopMatters

German indie-pop chanteuse Masha Qrella creates a quiet storm from Broadway bombast on her excellent tribute to two titans of musical theater. Broadway songs are generally big, brassy, and bombastic productions with rousing orchestras and full-blown choirs of actors and actresses dancing and prancing across massive stages in full regalia. German indie-pop songstress Masha Qrella (Contriva, Mina, NMfarner), at the behest of Berlin's House of World Cultures (or Haus der Kulturen der Welt), was commissioned to create a performance of songs by Broadway giants Kurt Weill and Frederick Loewe in conjunction with the theatre's 50th anniversary celebration...