An oral history interview with Felix Jackson / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich and Kim Kowalke, Los Angeles, 1979(?) : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Felix Jackson / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich and Kim Kowalke, Los Angeles, 1979(?) : recording and transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122612273

Jackson's reminiscences cover the era from the mid-1920's to the early 1940's, and the activities of prominent German artists. He gives considerable attention to Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (primarily as separate artists) and to his own libretto for Weill, from which he recalls an aria. He admires the German director Erich Engel at some length. He discusses the original production of Die Dreigroschenoper (1928), the German reception of jazz in the 1920's and the changes it caused in German music, and the German emigreĢ community in the 1940's in the U.S.

1 transcript (16 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

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