An oral history interview with Quentin Anderson / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto, New York City(?), 1986 February 11 : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Quentin Anderson / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto, New York City(?), 1986 February 11 : recording and transcript.

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Anderson focuses on Lotte Lenya, although he does take some time to describe the collaboration between his father and Kurt Weill. He discusses his own personal and legal relationships with Lenya, and the friendship between Lenya and his stepmother, Mab Anderson. More generally, he talks of Lenya's life in the 1940's. His recollections inlcude an impromptu performance of Die sieben Todsünden in the Weills' living room, and Weill's setting, now lost, of Frost's Stopping by woods on a snowy evening.

1 transcript (12 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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