Listening To The Heart

In his melancholically beautiful piece "Youkali," Kurt Weill yearned for the unattainable land of our dreams. Yet Weill had long since fled the decadent Berlin of the "Golden Twenties" for Paris, the city of light that never slept, a meeting place for exiles and artists. The spirit of the era was captured by the North American F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel "The Great Gatsby," while in Buenos Aires, Carlos Gardell rose to international tango st...