Photograph collection, [ca. 1900]-1986.

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Photograph collection, [ca. 1900]-1986.

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Portraits of Kurt Weill and his stage works; photographs with Lotte Lenya, collaborators, and others; portraits of Lenya and her stage, film, television, and other public appearances; photographs of the Weill family, Brook House, scores, and cartoons; and photographs concerning the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.

ca. 8 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6878436

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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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 ...

Brook House.

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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...

Weill family.

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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...