Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway.(Brief Article)
American Theatre, May, 2002 by Ivry, Benjamin
KURT WEILL ON STAGE: From Berlin to Broadway by Foster Hirsch, Knopf, New York. 416 pp, 83 illus., $35 cloth. AFTER THE SPLENDID PHOTO ALBUMS edited by David Farneth for Overlook Press on Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and his wife, Lotte Lenya, one might wonder what remains to be discovered about the composer of works like The Threepenny Opera, Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus and Knickerbocker Holiday.
Prolific author Foster Hirsch, a veteran film professor at Brooklyn College, draws on extensive documentation from New York's Kurt Weill Foundation, along with new interviews with ...
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