Papers relating to Kurt Weill, 1924-1987.

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Papers relating to Kurt Weill, 1924-1987.

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Musical scores, programs, record labels, correspondence, clippings, transcripts, holograph lecture script. The programs are for the original productions of The eternal road, Railroads on parade, Street scene, and The threepenny opera, and for a production of Der Protagonist, Der Zar lässt sich photographieren, and Die sieben Todsünden in Frankfurt in 1960, and one of Die Dreigroschenoper in Haifa in 1971. The record labels (photocopies thereof) are of two broken records from the Weimar period, one of the Song von Mandelay, the other of Das Lied vom Schlaraffenland from Der Silbersee. The holograph script is of a talk apparently prepared by Weill for an audience of non-specialists on the subject of "Richard Wagners Meistersinger von Nürnberg" and presenting a most affectionate tribute to that work. In the letters, from 1959 and 1960, Lenya thanks Leni (Helene, Nathan's widow) for having sent her some of Kurt's letters and encourages her to resume leading a full life following her husband's death. There is talk of the possibility of Helene traveling to Frankfurt to see Lenya and attend the performance Lenya is scheduled to give there. The clippings are primarily of reviews, and document critical response to the original productions of One touch of Venus, Street scene, Love life, and Lost in the stars, as well as non-original productions of these and other works in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. Three items are typescript transcriptions or translations of newspaper articles, including one from Haaretz announcing Kurt Weill's trip to Palestine in 1947.

Musical scores: 20 items.Programs: 3 items.Clippings: 3 items.Records labels: 2 items.Scripts: 1 item.Letters: 2 items.Clippings: 54 items.

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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...

Weill, Helene, 1898-1972

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Marom-Bergman, Hannelore, 1926-

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Hannelore Marom-Bergman, née Weill, is the only child of composer Kurt Weill's older brother Nathan, and it was her mother, Helene, she says, who provided funds for the first production of the very successful musical Die Dreigroschenoper (Berlin, 1928). Born in Leipzig, Germany, Hannelore emigrated with her family to Israel in 1936. Although Nathan was a physician, the financial situation of the family was difficult at times, and the cost of sending Hannelore to an Engl...

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...