Performance history records of the works of Kurt Weill in the collection of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [ca. 1915]-[ongoing].

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Performance history records of the works of Kurt Weill in the collection of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [ca. 1915]-[ongoing].

The works are primarily operas, musicals, and other stage works, but also include music for concert performance and radio broadcast, and for film. The Production History Collection (Ser.50, 51, 52) contains programs, press clippings, photographs, and related materials for productions of stage works and for performances of concert works; Ser.50, described here, covers the period beginning with the first public performances of Weill's works in Dessau.

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Weill, Kurt

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As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...