Materials documenting the production of Kurt Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Staatstheater in Kassel, 1930, 1929-1979 (bulk 1929-1930).

Jolowicz, Anneliese, collector.

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Anneliese Jolowicz, a soprano, sang the leading role of Jenny in Kurt Weill's controversial opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Kassel in 1930, soon after its riot-ridden premiere in Leipzig. Although achieving recognition for her excellence both as singer and actress, she did not continue to develop her career, perhaps as a result of her marriage (husband's name: Von Molnar). Maurice Abravanel, the conductor of the above-mentioned production, remembered her i...

Jolowicz, Anneliese

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Abravanel, Maurice, 1903-1993.

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Conductor of the Utah Symphony. From the description of Interviews, 1981. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122415000 Conductor. Abravanel (1903-1993) was born in Greece and grew up in Switzerland. He became a music theory student of Kurt Weill in 1922 in Berlin, and studied with him for a year. He and Weill remained good friends. When Abravanel became a conductor, Weill preferred him as a conductor of his own works; Abravanel conducted the premiere of Die siebe...

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...