After the phenomenal success of Die Dreigroschenoper in the summer of 1928, Kurt Weill found himself the toast of Berlin. Indeed, so popular was Weill that he was hired to provide a song for the Berlin im Licht festival in October. That a festival organized by a utility company to celebrate the wonders of electrical lighting in Berlin would hire the composer of the anti-capitalist Dreigroschenoper demonstrates the height of Weill's celebrity. Weill responded with a tiny, slow fox trot of a song with cheerfully banal lyrics by Weill himself extolling the glories of Berlin im Licht (Berlin in Light). The song is completely forgettable, utterly ephemeral, and absolutely perfect for the occasion.

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