Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Down in the valley, 1948-[ongoing].

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Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Down in the valley, 1948-[ongoing].

Includes programs, press clippings, photographs, and related materials for radio or stage productions, broadcasts, film and video adaptations (if any) of the work, beginning with the July 1948 premiere at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana. Posters, photographic prints (for productions prior to 1983), and recordings are filed in other series.

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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...

Sundgaard, Arnold, 1909-2006

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American playwright and librettist. From the description of An oral history interview with Arnold Sundgaard / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by David Farneth, 1996 May 13 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison). WorldCat record id: 122583702 Author of plays, lyrics, and librettos, including that for Down in the valley, with music by Weill. Originally conceived by Weill and Sundgaard as a radio ope...