Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1937-1963.

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Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1937-1963.

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2 items are from Kurt Weill: 1 concerns the premiere of The Eternal Road and the play's financial prospects; 1 concerns the possibility of a conducting work for Harold Byrns, whom Alma Mahler had apparently recommended to Weill. The remaining 2 items are from Lotte Lenya after Weill's death and reflect a friendship between her and Alma.

4 items (4 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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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, 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...