Articles and offprints in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1923-[ongoing] (bulk, after 1950).

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Articles and offprints in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1923-[ongoing] (bulk, after 1950).

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Journals, offprints, typescripts, photocopies (from journals or books), transcriptions, and translations of articles or chapters. Published and unpublished written work. This series contains a very wide variety of printed matter, related not only to Weill or Lenya, but their teachers, friends, and colleagues; their musical or theatrical milieus; performers of Weill's works; and eras and places where Weill and Lenya lived and worked. In some cases, performance history or pieces pertaining to other Weill-related events may be filed here, along with reviews of books and recordings; copies of articles deemed especially significant may be placed in this series, even if they have already been placed in another.

<690> folders (ca. <6> linear ft.).

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Weill-Lenya Research Center.

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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 &amp; 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...