Performance history records of works of Kurt Weill produced at theater and music festivals in the collection of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [1971]-[ongoing].

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Performance history records of works of Kurt Weill produced at theater and music festivals in the collection of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [1971]-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122520496

The works are primarily operas, musicals, and other stage works, but also include music for concert performance and radio broadcast, and for film. The collection contains programs, press clippings, photographs, brochures, invitations, and related materials for productions of stage works and for performances of concert works at theater and music festivals in Europe and the U.S. Only festivals at which more than one of Weill's works was performed are included in this series; a festival in which only on Weill work was performed is filed in Ser.50-52. Important festivals represented: Holland Festival, 1971; Berliner Festwochen, 1975; Kurt Weill Festival, New York, 1987; Camden Festival, London, 1986 and 1987; Kurt-Weill-Festival, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1990; and the annual Kurt-Weill-Fest in Dessau (1993-).

<ca. 80> folders.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Kurt-Weill-Fest (Dessau, Germany).

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Holland Festival (1971).

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Berliner Festwochen 1975: Berlin, Germany).

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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...

Camden Festival (1987: London, England).

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Camden Festival (1986: London, England).

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Kurt Weill Festival (1987: New York, N.Y.).

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Kurt-Weill-Fest (1990: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany).

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