Oral history collection, 1983-1986.

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Oral history collection, 1983-1986.

Oral history interviews of performers and associates of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, including Maurice Abravanel, Herbert Borchardt, Michael Feingold, Marta Feuchtwanger, Norbert Gingold, Hans Heinsheimer, Felix Jackson, Lotte Lenya, Andreas Meyer-Hanno, Gigi McGuire, Annaliese von Molnar, Teresa Stratas, Lys Symonette, and Virgil Thomson.

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Feingold, Michael.

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Stratas, Teresa

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McGuire, Gigi.

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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 ...

Gingold, Norbert.

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Symonette, Lys

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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...

Molnar, Annaliese von

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Jackson, Felix

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Born Felix Joachimson in Germany in 1902, Jackson was a music critic and writer in 1920's Berlin, when he met Kurt Weill. They collaborated on an opera entitled Na und?, now lost, and became fast friends. Jackson moved to the United States in the late 1930's and pursued a successful career in films (most notably as the screenwriter for Destry rides again). In the 1970's he wrote an unpublished biography of Kurt Weill. He died in 1992. From the description of An oral history interview...

Meyer-Hanno, Andreas

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Thomson, Virgil

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The hymn is How Firm a Foundation, words and music commonly ascribed to Robert Keene. The melody is also called Geard. Also quoted Yes, Jesus Loves Me and For He's A Jolly Good Fellow. Composed 1926-28. First performance New York, 22 February 1945, New York Philharmonic, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony on a hymn tune / Virgil Thomson. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56078995 Composer. ...

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...

Borchardt, Herbert

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Heinsheimer, Hans W., 1900-1993

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Author and music publishing executive Hans Heinsheimer was active with many of the leading European and American 20th-century composers. From the description of Hans Heinsheimer collection 1915-ca 1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71128299 German-born American publishing executive and writer on music. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 25 November 1964, to James J. Fuld, 1964 Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873424 ...

Feuchtwanger, Marta.

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Marta Feuchtwanger was born Marta Loeffler on December 21, 1891 in Germany. In 1912 she married German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and went with him into exile during WWII. First they lived in Southern France in Sanary-sur-mer but had to flee in 1940, escaping to the United States. Marta and Lion moved to Los Angeles in early 1941 where they eventually bought a house at 520 Paseo Miramar. During WWII the Feuchtwanger's house became a well-known gathering place for German-speaking exiles and ...

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...