Correspondence with Lotte Lenya and Lenya autographs, 1952-1960.

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Correspondence with Lotte Lenya and Lenya autographs, 1952-1960.

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Lenya expresses regrets at having to turn down Gerstman's offer [undocumented here] to play a certain role--apparently the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's profession. She also declines his offer to perform in his annual "Viennese" New Year's Eve concert (in 1954). She sends a card in March [1958] thanking him for his expression of condolences at hearing of the death of her second husband, George Davis, at the end of the previous year. In July 1960 he writes and suggests another concert at Carnegie Hall for the next year; in addition, he asks her if she would be interested in getting involved in a revival of Knickerbocker holiday on Broadway. The collection also includes two photographic portraits of Lenya inscribed to Gerstman.

1 greeting card.4 letters.1 photographic port.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Gerstman, Felix G.

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Felix G. Gerstman was active as a concert and theater promoter in New York in the 1940's and 1950's. Among the concerts he managed are several which presented the music of Kurt Weill and featured performances by the composer's wife (then widow), the singing actress Lotte Lenya. These include: one at Hunter College in April 1943 entitled "We fight back," which was a benefit for the German-American War Bond Committee of the U.S. Treasury; the Weill memorial concert in Town...

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...