An oral history interview with Julius Ackermann / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for music by Lys Symonette and David Farneth, Kurt Weill Foundation, New York (?), 1987 January 8 : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Julius Ackermann / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for music by Lys Symonette and David Farneth, Kurt Weill Foundation, New York (?), 1987 January 8 : recording and transcript.

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Ackermann's main thrust is family recollections, especially of the emigration of various family members from Germany in the 1930's. Some of the interview centers on Hans Weill (Kurt Weill's brother) and his wife Rita, and their relations with Weill and later, with the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.

1 transcript (9 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min) : analog, 1 5/16 ips, stereo.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Ackermann, Julius F.

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Cousin of Kurt Weill on his mother's side, b. 1909. From the description of An oral history interview with Julius Ackermann / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for music by Lys Symonette and David Farneth, Kurt Weill Foundation, New York (?), 1987 January 8 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 122435398 ...

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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...

Farneth, David

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Weill, Hans, 1899-1947.

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Weill, Rita, 1902-

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Kurt Weill foundation for music

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Brook House was the home of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. From the description of Photograph collection, [ca. 1900]-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155506828 Farneth was director and archivist at the foundation. From the description of Correspondence to Isolde (Klarmann) Radzinowicz, 1988. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863739 ...