Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history documentation of shows about Kurt Weill and/or Lotte Lenya, using Weill's music, or from their world, [192-]-[ongoing].

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Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history documentation of shows about Kurt Weill and/or Lotte Lenya, using Weill's music, or from their world, [192-]-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364659

Includes press announcements, programs, and reviews of shows and programs either produced by Weill (Lunch hour follies, 1942-) or by others; in the latter case, those which 1) use, at least in part, his music, 2) take Weill and/or Lenya, or aspects of their world as subject matter, or 3) which are closely related in some manner to their world (e.g. a production by the Berliner Ensemble of a work by Brecht with music by Dessau, or a production of the Beggar's opera).

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6691140

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Lenya, Lotte

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68g8mvt (person)

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 &amp; 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...