Audio recordings, 1927-1986.

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Audio recordings, 1927-1986.

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Audio recordings of Weill and Lotte Lenya works. Includes acetate, shellac, long-playing, and compact disc recordings and magnetic tapes. Subjects include Weill works, popular arrangements, new dramatic works, radio broadcasts, oral histories, conferences and symposia, recordings of other composers' works, and promotional recordings.

20 linear ft.

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fre,

ger,

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6878066

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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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...

Lenya, Lotte

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Born in Austria, Lenya became an actress in Zürich, then moved to Berlin where she met and married Kurt Weill. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1935, where Lenya lived until her death a few months after this interview was recorded. From the description of An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich, New City, N.Y., 1981 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 12258368...

Kurt Weill foundation for music

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Brook House was the home of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. From the description of Photograph collection, [ca. 1900]-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155506828 Farneth was director and archivist at the foundation. From the description of Correspondence to Isolde (Klarmann) Radzinowicz, 1988. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863739 ...