An oral history interview with Harold Prince / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto, New York City, 1985 November 19 : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Harold Prince / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto, New York City, 1985 November 19 : recording and transcript.

Prince talks mainly about Cabaret and working with Lotte Lenya, whom he admires greatly. He also discusses Lenya's marriage to Russell Detwiler and her life between 1966 and her death in 1981. He closes the interview by relating a story of the meeting between Lenya and Helen Kazantzakis. There are also anecdotes about Marlene Dietrich and Lys Symonette.

1 transcript (14 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

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Detwiler, Russell, 1925-1969.

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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...