Music sources for Kurt Weill's songs, duets, and choruses in the collection of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1928-[ongoing].

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Music sources for Kurt Weill's songs, duets, and choruses in the collection of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1928-[ongoing].

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The collection forms part of Series 10, which consists mainly of music manuscripts: non-autograph originals and photocopies of both non-autographs and autographs. It also includes rental materials and some arrangements by other composers. Briefly stated, all music materials for the works of Weill other than those offered for sale by publishers are included, whether in score or parts, as long as they present his music without fundamentally altering its character. (For more details on inclusion/exclusion, see the record for the whole series--"Music sources for the works of Kurt Weill ...," ID NYWS94-A2.) The song collection contains holographs and copyists' manuscripts (or photocopies of same) for the following songs: Abendlied, Abschiedsbrief, Die Bekehrte, Berlin im Licht, Es Blühen zwei flammende Rosen, Es regnet, Gebet, High wind in Jamaica, Ich sitze da un' esse Klops, Ich weiss wofür, Im Volkston, Langsamer Fox und Algi-Song, Lunch hour follies (Boy Scout song, Buddy on the nightshift, The good earth, Oh, Uncle Samuel, and Song of the free), Maikaterlied, Mi addir, Nannas Lied, Pauv' Madam' Peachum, Rilkelieder (Mach mich zum Wächter deiner Weiten and Vielleicht, dass ich durch schwere Berge gehe), Das schöne Kind, Sehnsucht, Die stille Stadt, Three songs on poems by Sam Coslow (Barbershop quartet, Romance of a lifetime, Too much to dream), Two folksongs of the New Palestine (Baa m'nucha and Havu l'venim), Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?, Weberlied, and Your technique.

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Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Weill-Lenya Research Center.

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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...