An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by George Sturm : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by George Sturm : recording and transcript.

Lenya gives a brief overview of her early life and performing career , including her meeting with Weill, the origin of her stage name, and various recordings and live performances. Works discussed include Die Dreigroschenoper.

1 transcript (7 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

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Sturm, Georges

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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...

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...