Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of documentation of Lotte Lenya's performances, [ca. 1913]-1978.

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Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of documentation of Lotte Lenya's performances, [ca. 1913]-1978.

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Lenya's performing career extended from 1913 in Zurich to 1978 at Avery Fisher Hall, New York City. The performances represented are of major and lesser roles in musicals (except those of Weill--in Ser.50A), revues, and plays; of (musical and non-musical) film roles; of excerpts from stage works and/or songs with piano accompaniment, some of these broadcast over radio or television. Music is by Weill, Kander, Eisler, Dessau, and others. Includes programs, press clippings, photographs, and related materials for productions of stage works and for performances of concert works.

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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...

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...