Papers relating to Kurt Weill, 1956-1974.

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983

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Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. Born in Brooklyn, the oldest of four children. It was not until 1924 that Ira and George teamed up to write the music for what became their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good. Some of their more famous works include "The Man I Love", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That A...

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...

Jackson, Felix, 1902-1992.

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Felix Joachimsohn was working as a second-string music critic for the Börsen-Courier newspaper in Berlin when he met Kurt Weill in 1925. They become close friends, and during the next two years collaborated on the opera Na und?, for which Joachimsohn provided the libretto. This opera, though completed by Weill, has disappeared. Like Weill and the composer's wife, the singing actress, Lotte Lenya, Joachimsohn left Germany in that year, also coming eventually to the United States. In the U.S. he ...

Frankenstein, Alfred 1906-1990

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San Francisco art critic and lecturer, Department of Art, Stanford University. From the description of Alfred Frankenstein papers, 1971-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 701211535 ...

Mackeben, Toni

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