Music reminiscent of some of Kurt Weill's "Die Dreigroschenoper"

Rating: Null/10 (4 September 2003)

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but the influence of the Kurt Weill- Bertolt Brecht collaboration with some of the selections from their Threepenny Opera (German title: Die Dreigroschenoper) can be heard in the music of Nightmare Before Christmas. The atmosphere of the Threepenny Opera is invoked several times throughout this wonderful animated film. Listen to "Mr. Peachum's Morning Hymn" (Der Morgenchoral des Peachum), "The Instead-Of Song" (Anstatt-Dass Song), "Ballad About the Question: 'What Keeps a Man Alive'" (Ballade über die Frage: "Wovon lebt der Mensch"), Perhaps the best version of Weill's Threepenny Opera is the one featuring Lotte Lenya on CBS Records Masterworks (Sony). See if you agree.