Documentation of symposia pertaining to Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [1973]-[ongoing].

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Documentation of symposia pertaining to Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [1973]-[ongoing].

Programs, guest lists, transcripts, abstracts, correspondence, clippings, advertisements, photos. This series includes materials on about twenty symposia, of which the most important are: Theater im Exil (Berlin, 1973), the Kurt Weill Conference (New Haven, 1983), the Internationales Kurt-Weill-Symposium (Düsseldorf, 1990), and "Formerly German" (Houston, 1994). A number of symposia related to Bertolt Brecht, musical theater in general, Weimar Germany, and other topics are also represented.

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