Papers relating to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, ca. 1945-1978.

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Papers relating to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, ca. 1945-1978.

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Correspondence (primarily), musical sketches, a will, an announcement, and a portrait. Also included are: 1) undated sketches by Weill of the "albumleaf" "Ode to Milton Arthur Paul Ganiff [sic] by Maxweill Kurtson [i.e. Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson]" and another consisting only of the melody of Victor Hollaender's setting of the line "See what the boys in the backroom will have" from the song of the same name sung by Marlene Dietrich in the film "Destry rides again"; 2) a copy of Lenya's first will, executed in 1963 (in which she expressed her intention to leave all her wearing apparel and jewelry to Bunny and much of her library to Milton); 3) a letter from 1964 from Bill Brownell at Young ? 4) an announcement from 1974 of a special meeting of the members of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music; 5) a portrait by Caniff of Lenya in the role of Jenny in The threepenny opera; and 6) a chart relating the keys of the piano with notation of their pitches on treble and bass staves.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6774491

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1917-

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The well-known comic-strip creator (Terry and the pirates, Steve Canyon, etc.) and his wife Esther ("Bunny") were, in the 1940's, neighbors and close friends of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in New City, New York. After Weill's death in 1950 and the Caniffs' move to Palm Springs, California, Lenya not only stayed in touch with them, but remembered them in her first will. From the description of Papers relating to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, ca. 1945-1978. (Paul,...

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...

Caniff, Esther Parsons

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