An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, [196-] : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, [196-] : recording and transcript.

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In a wide-ranging interview, Lenya discusses her own childhood and formative years in Zurich and Berlin and proceeds to an overview of Kurt Weill's career from the early operas to the later Broadway shows. She focuses particularly on the relationship between Weill and Brecht and on Brecht's dramatic theories, speculating on her own role in helping to form them. There is much discussion of Die Dreigroschenoper and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, along with Die sieben Todsünden, Firebrand of Florence, and Street scene. She also describes reactions of Hindemith, Krenek, Reinhardt, and Klemperer to Weill or his work.

1 transcript (31 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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