Scripts, 1924-1986.

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Scripts, 1924-1986.

Published and unpublished scripts for Kurt Weill's staged works including DER ZAR LÄSST SICH PHOTOGRAPHIEREN, MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL, DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER, AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY, HAPPY END, DER JASAGER, DIE BÜRGSCHAFT, DER SILBERSEE, DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN, DER KUHHANDEL, DER WEG DER VERHEISSUNG, THE ETERNAL ROAD, JOHNNY JOHNSON, KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY, RAILROADS ON PARADE, BALLAD OF MAGNA CARTA, LADY IN THE DARK, ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE, STREET SCENE, DOWN IN THE VALLEY, LOVE LIFE, LOST IN THE STARS, DER LINDBERGHFLUG, MARIE GALANTE, WE WILL NEVER DIE, A FLAG IS BORN, DER NEUE ORPHEUS, VOM TOD IM WALD, DAS BERLINER REQUIEM, ZU POTSDAM UNTER DEN EICHEN, DIE LEGENDE VOM TOTEN SOLDATEN, KIDDUSH. Also, television scripts and radio scripts.

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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 ...

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...