Commercial 33-1/3 RPM sound discs, [ca. 1950]-1981.

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Commercial 33-1/3 RPM sound discs, [ca. 1950]-1981.

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Sound recordings. The emphasis is on works of Weill and performances of Lenya singing (Weill's music) and reading (German poetry and Kafka's stories). The collection also includes recordings of a wide variety of music, from Monteverdi (Orfeo) to works by composers she and/or Weill knew, such as Busoni, Milhaud, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Gershwin. Historical reissues of recordings of female opera or operetta singers who made their careers at least partly in Berlin and Vienna (e.g., Maria Jeritza and Fritzi Massary) and American popular music of the 1970's are also represented.

ca. 225 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 RPM ; 7-12 in.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6776781

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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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 & 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...