Justin Austin, Baritone Howard Watkins, Piano

Baritone Justin Austin's star has risen considerably since his 2017 Carnegie Hall debut. In his return to the Hall—featured as part of the Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival—the inimitable Weill and Brecht songbook takes the spotlight. Hear the tale of “Mack the Knife” in selections from the uncategorizable Threepenny Opera, which premiered in Berlin in 1928; rousing settings of Walt Whitman poems, which Weill wrote th...