September Song

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"September Song" is a popular 1938 American standard composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, known for its melancholic reflection on aging and the passage of time.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf popular standard
song
composer Kurt Weill NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describedAs American standard
firstPerformanceBy Walter Huston NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceLocation Broadway NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceProduction Knickerbocker Holiday (original Broadway production) NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceYear 1938
genre popular music
standard
hasCulturalStatus jazz standard
hasForm ballad
popular song
hasKeyInterpretation meditation on mortality
reflection on lost youth
hasMelodicStyle lyrical
hasQuality reflective
hasRecording Bing Crosby 1943 recording
Frank Sinatra 1946 recording
Walter Huston 1938 recording
hasSubject late-life romance
limited time left in life
hasTempo slow
influencedBy European cabaret style
language English
lyricist Maxwell Anderson NERFINISHED
lyricsBy Maxwell Anderson NERFINISHED
musicBy Kurt Weill NERFINISHED
notablePerformer Bing Crosby NERFINISHED
Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED
Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED
Jimmy Durante NERFINISHED
Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED
Walter Huston NERFINISHED
Willie Nelson NERFINISHED
partOf musical Knickerbocker Holiday
publicationYear 1938
theme aging
passage of time
tone melancholic
usedIn film soundtracks
television programs
yearOfComposition 1938

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Chet hasTrack September Song
LoveMusik includesSongByKurtWeill September Song
this entity surface form: “September Song”
Kurt Weill notableSong September Song