Performance materials for shows and songs by Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1955-[ongoing].

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Performance materials for shows and songs by Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1955-[ongoing].

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Full scores, vocal scores, and parts for complete shows and individual songs. Includes music licensed by a theatrical agency or made available for rental by the Kurt Weill Foundation. Complete sets of parts for all of Weill's American stage works, except Knickerbocker holiday and Down in the valley, are found in this series. There are also complete parts for Die Dreigroschenoper, Die sieben Todsünden, and Marie galante. Finally, sets of parts for many songs, whether excerpted from a larger work or coposed independently, are filed in this series. Many sets of parts are associated with specific performances or recordings. Includes parts used for the Broadway production of The threepenny opera (1989), scores and parts prepared for the Houston Grand Opera's production of Street scene (1994), and corrected parts for One touch of Venus.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Weill-Lenya Research Center.

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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...