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FROM THE ARCHIVES RECENT ACQUISITIONS Compiled by Kenneth Schlesinger The following list offers a selective Gesang und Klavier" Vienna: Universal summary of the documents acquired by the ORAL HISTORY Edition 9851A, 1931. Weill-Lenya Research Center since October "Reminiscences of Weill/Lenya:" The Road of Promise, photocopy of 1988. Due to space limitations, omitted from Hesper Anderson; Ben Cutler and Maya Chappell piano-vocal rental score for The the listing are books, articles, press clip Gregory, cast members of The Eternal Road; Eternal Road (Ben Cutler). pings, and commercial recordings, as well Jean Dalrymple, theater producer; Martus UE rental full scores for Die Burgschaft, as most photographs, programs, and post Granirer; Willi Kraber, member of Group Die Dreigroschenoper, Der jasager, Der ers. The names of donors are indicated in Theater; Paula Laurence; Maurice Levine; Protagonist, Royal Palace, Der Silbersee, Der italics at the end of each entry, when appro Henry Marx; Lys Symonette; Wilhemena Zar la!st sich photographieren, and Der neue priate. Tuck; Peggy Turnley. Interviewed for 1988 Orpheus. Oral History Project, Professor Mel Gordon COLLECTIONS and students, New York University. SCORES -- UNPUBLISHED J tirgen Schebera, Berlin (DD R): "Chari "Conversation with Maurice Abra "America," "Battle Hymn of the Re vari: More details about Dreigroschenoper vanel," by Olivia Mattis. Typescript and public," and "Star Spangled Banner," piano early history," article, plusfourphotostats of cassette tape. vocal scores of Weill's settings in copyist's original Dreigroschenoper advertisements in hand (Rodgers and Hammerstein Theater Charivari, Bloch Erben's house journal, library). 1928-29. Donald Spoto, Los Angeles: Inter Firebrand ofFlorence, selections from view tapes and selected materials gathered rehearsal scores. while researching Lenya: A life. "Langsam er Fox" (1921), transcription prepared for 1975 Berlin Festival by David CORRESPONDENCE Drew (David Drew). Lotte Lenya to Milton Caniff (15 let Where Do We Go From Here, photo ters, photocopies; 1962-78) (Donald Spoto) ; copy of vocal score. (Mrs. Ira Gershwin). Kurt Weill to Ira Gershwin (20 letters, pho tocopies; 1940-44; random annotations by SCRIPTS Gershwin)(Mrs. Ira Gershwin). Der Silbersee, Felix Bloch Erben, from Harold Prince Collection; Der Weg der Ver THESES AND DISSERTATIONS hei!sung, photocopy of Werfel's holograph, Humphreys, Paul W. "Expressions of Van Pelt Library, Special Collections, Uni Einverstandnis: Musical Structure and Af versity of Pennsylvania. fective Content in Kurt Weill's Score of Der ]asager." Ph.D. dissertation, University of V IDEOTAPES California, Los Angeles, 1988. Die Dreigroschenoper, Hessischer Rund Scott, Harrison Charles. "Busoni's funk, 1957; Die Dreigroschenoper (1989), Doctor Faust." Masters thesis, North Texas Happy End (1988) and Der ]asager (1989), State University, 1976. Banff Art Centre; Mahagonny Songspiel (with "Conversa HOLOGRAPHS tions with Fear and Hope After Death") "Surabaya Johnny," early holograph Peter Sellars, BAM Opera, 1989; Aufstieg sketch, 44 measures, pencil, 1½ sides, on und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Hessicher Beethoven Papier Nr. 38a (28 Linien) [1929] Rund.funk, 196-; The Eternal Road, Para Sketch for "Ira" from Die sieben mount newsreel (1937) and "On Stage: Todsiinden by Casper Neher. March of Time" (1949) (Mel Gordon). NON- COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS All rights reserved. "Kurt Weill and his Jewish Heritage," VISUAL ART Symposium at Merkin Concert Hall, 1987; Studs Terkel Radio Show, WFMT-Chicago PROGRAMS Neher, Caspar. "Ira," sketch for Die [Happy End, Court Theatre, 1989]; Happy 'The Judgement of Paris," Agnes de sieben Todsunden stage panel. Yellow and End, Westdeutscher Rund.funk, Koln, 1988; Mille ballet to Weill score, Westminster gray wash on paper. 36 X 24 cm. Purchased The Seven Deadly Sins, Sinfonia San Fran Theatre, London, July 1938 (Jane Pritchard); from the Edward James Collection. cisco, 1987; The Threepenny Opera and johnny Der ]asager, Music School of the Henry Johnson, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Street Settlement, New York, 25 April 1933; WRITINGS 1989; "Cry, The Beloved Country /Lost in Der ]asager, Akademie fiir Kirchen- und "Der deutsche Rundfunk," photocop the Stars," a concert sequence devised by Schulmusik, Berlin; original playbills from ies of articles by Weill, January 1925-May David Drew, American Composers Orches Weill Broadway musicals: Firebrand of 1929 (Jurgen Schebera); "Musikfest oder tra, Carnegie Hall, 1988; War Play (Weill/ Florence, Knickerbocker Holiday, lady in the Musikstudio?"; [Zu Der lindberghfl,ug] Drew), Ensemble Modem, Frankurt, 1988; Dark, Lost in the Stars, love life, and Street "Keine Differenz Weill-Hindemith"; "Kurt Weill" and archival recordings, Hun Scene. "Rundfrage Richard Strauss," Musikblatter garian Radio, Budapest, 1988; lady in the des Anbruch 6:5 (May 1924); "Schriftsteller Dark, Edinburgh Festival, John Mauceri, SCORES-- PUBLISHED 1934: Eine Umfrage," in Pariser Tageblatt 1988; Street Scene, Scottish Opera, John "Sechs ausgewahlte Stticke aus der 2:41 (21 January 1934). Mauceri, 1989; Violin Concerto, Stephanie Oper Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Gonley with Guildhall Chamber Orchestra, von Kurt Weill/Text von Bert Brecht/ 1987. Ku rt Weill Newslet ter Volume 7 Number 2 15 NEW PUBLICATIONS 60007-1 ARTICLES """' KU R T WE I LL ~ DER ZAR l](SST SICH PHOTOGRAPHIEREN Fehn, Ann Clark. "Concepts of the Masses and German Drama in the Weimar Republic." - THE TSAR HAS HIS PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN - Seminar24:l (February 1988): 31-57. McDANIEL · POHL · NAPIER Hinton, Stephen. 'The Concept of Epic Opera: Theoretical Anomalies in the Brecht-Weill l<ULNER Partnership." Festschrift Carl Dahlhaus (1988), pp. 285--294. R\JNDRJNK ORCHESTER JAN LATHAM -KONIG Lucchesi, Joachim. "Eine moderne und politische Kunst: Der Komponist Wladimir Vogel." Musik und Gesellschaft 5, (May 1989): 247-249. Raddatz, Fritz]. "Besuch bei der al ten Dame." Zeitmagazin, 24 March 1989, pp. 24-34. [Pro.file of Maria Ley-Piscator.] Werner, Paul. "Frauen, die Geschichte machten: Lotte Lenya, Stimme des Volkes." Viva, 4 April 1989, pp. 106-113. BOOKS Bassi, Ad riano. Kurt Weill: I Grandi Musicisti del XX Secolo. Milano: Targa Italiana Editore, Collana Musica Studio, 1988. Bentley, Eric. The Brecht Memoir. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 1989. [New British edition with an introduction by Martin Esslin.] Berlau, Ruth. Living/or Brecht: The Memoirs ofRuth Berlau. Edited by Hans Bunge. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1987. Gilbert, Michael John T. Bertolt Brecht's Striving/or Reason, Even in Music. New York: Peter Lang, 1988. Gordon, Eric A Mark the Music: The Life and Work ofMarc Blitzstein. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Martin, Jeffrey Brown. Ben Hecht: Hollywood Screenwriter. Studies in Cinema, No. 27. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985. [References to Hecht's 1943 ''We Will Never Die," with music by Weill.] Mehner, Klaus andJ oachim Lucchesi, editors. Studien zur Berliner Musikgeschichte: Musikkul tur der zwanziger fahre. Im Auftrag der Akademie der Ktinste der DDR. Berlin (DDR): Hen schelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, 1989. MHS 512l81Z Speirs, Ronald. Bertolt Brecht. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1987. KURT WEILL Symphony No. 2 RECORDINGS ALBERTOGINASTERA Variacioncs concen:uucs Entartete Musik: Eine Tondokumentation zur Diisseldorfer Ausstellung van 1938. I. Sauber ungen; II. MiBbrauch; III. "Deutsche Musik"; IV. Widerstand. Zusammengestellt und kom mentiert von Albrecht Dtimling. CDP Berlin 57265043 & 57265023. (4 CDs) Der Jasager. Joseph Protschka (Student); Lys Bert Symonette (Mother); Willibald Vohla (Teacher). Dtisseldorf Children's Chorus and Chamber Orchestra; Siegfried Kohler, conductor. Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra; Anahid Ajemian, soloist, with M-G-M Wind Orchestra; Izler Solomon, conductor. "Dance of the Tumblers" from Lady in the Dark and "Gold!" from Lost in the Stars; M-G-M Chamber Orchestra; Arthur Winograd, conductor. Symphonkorcbcstcr dc5 BaycrilCben Ruodfunks PolyGram 839727-4 (cassette); 839727-2 (CD) [Reissue.] JULIUS RUDEL, CONDUCTOR Der Lindberghjl.ug and The Ballad of Magna Carta . Pro Musica Koln; Ko iner Rundfunkorch ester; Jan Latham-Konig, conductor. Capriccio 60012-1 (CD). [Includes a 1930 broadcast recording of the Weill-Hindemith version of Der Lindberghflug, conducted by Hermann Scherchen.] Over There: Songs of War and Peace, c. 1900-1920. Michael Feinstein; Armen Guzelimian, piano. EMI Angel CDC 7 49768 2. (CD) [Includes Weill's "Riders' Song [Reiterlied]," "Parting Song (Im Volkston)" and 'The Beautiful Child. (Das schone Kind)".] Die sieben Todsiinden. Gisela May, with the Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig; Herbert Kegel, conductor. Das Berliner Requiem. The London Sinfonietta; David Atherton, conduc tor. PolyGram 429333-2/4 (CD/cassette). [Reissue.] Symphony no. 2. Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 by Alberto Ginastera. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Julius Rudel, conductor. Musical Heritage Society 5123812 (CD); 312381H (Cassette) Threepenny Opera Suite (Kleine Dreigroschenmusik). Chicago Pro Musica. Reference Record ings RR-29. (LP and CD.) A Walk on the Weill Side. Helen Schneider. CBS Masterworks MK45703 (CD); MT 45703 (cas sette). Kurt Weil l Newsletter Volume 7 Number 2 16 BOOKS snippets of information, diary entries, un for the most part, but effective, and crucial to published earlier versions, or textual