Commercial 78 RPM sound discs, [ca. 1928]-[ca. 1950].

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Commercial 78 RPM sound discs, [ca. 1928]-[ca. 1950].

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Sound recordings. A wide variety of artists, composers, and kinds of music is represented. Many big band and other popular recordings from the 1930's and 1940's from Europe and the U.S., anthologies of American folk music and spirituals, and some classical piano music. Weill's music is well-represented, with recordings by Lys Gauty and Helen Hayes, and original-cast recordings of excerpts from Die Dreigroschenoper, Lady in the dark, One touch of Venus, Street scene, Down in the valley, and Lost in the stars, as well as some popular arrangements of numbers from his works.

ca. 170 sound discs : analog, 78 RPM ; 10-12 in.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Lenya, Lotte

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Born in Austria, Lenya became an actress in Zürich, then moved to Berlin where she met and married Kurt Weill. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1935, where Lenya lived until her death a few months after this interview was recorded. From the description of An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich, New City, N.Y., 1981 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 12258368...

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...