An oral history interview with Henry Marx / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York City, 1988 April 27 : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Henry Marx / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York City, 1988 April 27 : recording and transcript.

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Marx discusses the interview he conducted with Kurt Weill in the late 1940's. He also describes his work with Lotte Lenya in 1976, organizing the Weill-Lenya exhibition at the New York Public Library. He considers Weill's American works, his feelings about Germany, and the contention that Weill's American compositions are distinctly different from the German compositions. He talks about the initial impact of Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928 and of The eternal road, produced in 1937.

1 transcript (7 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 40 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Marx, Henry

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German-American writer and critic, who has written extensively about music and theater. He worked on both the Staats-Zeitung (as reporter) and Aufbau (as editor), as well as directing the theater and music programs of Goethe House in New York. Marx was also on the Board of Trustees of the Kurt Weill Foundation. He died in 1993. From the description of An oral history interview with Henry Marx / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York City, 1988 April 27 : recordin...

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...