78 RPM recordings in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1937-1949.

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78 RPM recordings in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1937-1949.

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78 RPM sound recordings acquired by the Weill-Lenya Research Center since 1983. This series consists almost entirely of Kurt Weill's music. Items of interest: two copies of Lotte Lenya's recording, Six songs of Kurt Weill (1943); several test recordings of numbers from One touch of Venus; Helen Hayes's recording of Mine eyes have seen the glory (1942); selections from Die Dreigroschenoper, conducted by Otto Klemperer; and original cast recordings of One touch of Venus, Street scene, and Lost in the stars.

<50> sound discs : analog, 78 RPM, mono ; 10-12 in.

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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...