Non-commercial sound recordings, [ca. 1935]-1969 (bulk, 1940-1950).

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Non-commercial sound recordings, [ca. 1935]-1969 (bulk, 1940-1950).

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Sound discs. The collection consists largely of music by Weill, which may be either test recordings or studio versions of recordings which were later released commercially. Numbers from Die Dreigroschenoper (mainly popular versions of Mack the Knife), One touch of Venus, Street scene, Down in the valley, and Lost in the stars are especially well represented. Several performances or interviews of Lenya may also be found. Other items of interest: a Christmas record from Nan and Walter Huston, Edward VIII's abdication speech, the film score for One touch of Venus, and a 16-inch studio recording of The ballad of Magna Carta.

ca. 120 sound discs : analog, mono. ; 7-16 in.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6731392

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Huston, Walter, 1884-1950

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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...

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...