Writings by Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1925-1950.

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Writings by Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1925-1950.

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Articles, essays, interviews, radio scripts, and production notes by Weill and Lenya, including "About the music for YOU AND ME;" "A Coke, a Sandwich and Us;" "I married a King;" "Notes on STREET SCENE;" "Man of the Hour;" "Notes about the musical settings of Helen Hayes' recordings;" "Notes on Broadway and the musical theatre;" "Notes on the score of ONE TOUCH OF VENUS;" "Oper in Amerika;" Plan for a series of radio operas, Prospectus of comedy sketches in "Lunchtime Follies" radio show; "American minstrel show history;" "Lotte Lenya remembers MAHAGONNY;" "The music of Kurt Weill;" and "That was a time..." Also, Weill's articles for DER DEUTSCHE RUNDFUNK.

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Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993

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Helen Hayes Brown was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1900. Her parents were Frank and Catherine “Essie” Brown. With her mother’s encouragement, Hayes made her stage debut at the age of five and began performing both in amateur productions as well as the stock company, The Columbia Players. While performing in a recital for Miss Minnie Hawke’s School of Dance, Hayes was spotted by Lew Fields. Fields, half of the Weber and Fields comedy team, as well as a producer, recognized Hayes’s tale...

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...