Commercial 45 RPM sound discs, [ca.1950]-1969.

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Commercial 45 RPM sound discs, [ca.1950]-1969.

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Sound recordings. Roughly twenty recordings of arrangements of Kurt Weill's songs, especially Mack the Knife. There are also two recordings of the music of Hanns Eisler. In addition, Lenya collected recordings by jazz and popular bands in Germany and the U.S., with artists ranging from Roger Bean und sein Orchester to Elvis Presley to Spike Jones. Includes two recordings by Lenya herself, one of which was added to the collection after her death.

51 sound discs : analog, 45 RPM ; 7 in.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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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...

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...