An oral history interview with Maurice Abravanel / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto and Lys Symonette, New York, NY?, 1985? : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Maurice Abravanel / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto and Lys Symonette, New York, NY?, 1985? : recording and transcript.

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Abravanel talks briefly about his relations with Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill, briefly discussing Lenya's recording of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny and Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of Die Dreigroschenoper. HE goes on to talk about twentieth-century music more generally, focusing on Strauss, Mahler, and Les Six, with some reference to Weill's opinion of them, and conlcudes the interview talking of his own recordings of Mahler, Stravinsky, and Bloch.

1 transcript (14 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassettes (ca. 40 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

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