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Kurt Weill

Index Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. [1]

251 relations: A Kurt Weill Cabaret, Abitur, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Alabama Song, Alban Berg, Album, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Amanda Palmer, Amar Quartet, Ann Miller, Anna Ritter, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anton Webern, Arno Holz, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Siegel, August Strindberg, Baden-Württemberg, Battle Hymn of the Republic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bebe Neuwirth, Bede, Ben Bagley, Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, Berlin University of the Arts, Bertolt Brecht, Bobby Darin, Book of Lamentations, Bruno Walter, Caesar Hochstetter, Carl Van Vechten, Carla Bley, Cello sonata, Charlie Haden, Chita Rivera, Classical music, Claudio Arrau, Clifford Odets, Communist Party of Germany, Dagmar Krause, Darius Milhaud, David Atherton, David Bowie, David Drew (writer), Dee Dee Bridgewater, Der Kuhhandel, Der Silbersee, Dessau, ..., Deutsche Grammophon, Die Bürgschaft (opera), Divertimento, Down in the Valley (folk song), Down in the Valley (opera), Downstate New York, Duke Special, Elia Kazan, Ella Fitzgerald, Elmer Rice, Elvis Costello, Engelbert Humperdinck (composer), Erich Kästner, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Hardt, Estelle Parsons, Fantômas, Felt Mountain, Ferruccio Busoni, Francis Scott Key, Frank Sinatra, Franz Werfel, Free University of Berlin, Fritz Busch, Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst, Gary Bertini, Georg Kaiser, Georgia Brown (English singer), Gianluigi Trovesi, Gianni Coscia, Gisela May, Goldfrapp, Grünheide (Mark), Group Theatre (New York City), Gustav Mahler, Hal Willner, Hanns Eisler, Hans Knappertsbusch, Harry Morgan, Haverstraw (village), New York, Haverstraw, New York, Hazzan, Heinz Karl Gruber, Heinz Unger, Henry Jolles, High Tor State Park, Home front, Howard Da Silva, Howard Dietz, Huckleberry Finn (EP), Ian Fraser (composer), Igor Stravinsky, Industrial music, Ira Gershwin, Irwin Shaw, Jacques Deval, Jacques Loussier, Jean Cocteau, Jews, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Eliot Gardiner, John Garfield, John Gay, John Reardon (baritone), John Zorn, Johnny Johnson (musical), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Judah Halevi, Judy Collins, Julia Ward Howe, Kapellmeister, Kazik Staszewski, Kroll Opera House, Kurzweil Music Systems, Ladenburg, Langston Hughes, Lüdenscheid, Lee J. Cobb, Left-wing politics, Leipzig, Lied, Lion Feuchtwanger, Lisy Fischer, London Sinfonietta, Lortel Archives, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Lost in the Stars, Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Lou Reed, Louis Armstrong, LoveMusik, Lys Gauty, Lys Symonette, Mack the Knife, Manhattan Center, Mannheim, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Steyn, Mark Twain, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Maurice Abravanel, Max Dessoir, Max Raabe, Max Reger, Maxwell Anderson, Metropolitan Opera, Musical theatre, My Country, 'Tis of Thee, My Ship, Naturalization, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Nell Carter, New City, New York, New Jersey, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nichols, Connecticut, Nick Cave, Nikolaus Lenau, Nikos Skalkottas, Nina Simone, Ninon de l'Enclos, November Group (German), One-act play, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Klemperer, Pantomime, Paul Green (playwright), Paul Hindemith, Philipp Jarnach, Pine Brook Country Club, Pirate Jenny, PJ Harvey, Popular music, Rainer Maria Rilke, Répétiteur, Richard Dehmel, Richard Woitach, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Robbie Williams, Robert Desnos, Robert Frost, Rockland County, New York, Roger Rees, Samuel Francis Smith, Sarah Slean, Saxony, September Song, September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill, Singspiel, Song cycle, Speak Low, Steeleye Span, Stefan Wolpe, Stephen Hinton, Sting (musician), Street Scene (opera), String quartet, Suite (music), Switzerland, Symphonic poem, Symphony, Tammy Grimes, Teresa Stratas, The Beggar's Opera, The Doors, The Dresden Dolls, The Eternal Road (opera), The Flight Across the Ocean, The Holocaust, The New York Times, The New York Times Company, The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté), The Star-Spangled Banner, The Threepenny Opera, The Threepenny Opera (1931 film), The Young Gods, The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill, Theodor W. Adorno, Theresienstadt concentration camp, This Is New (Dee Dee Bridgewater album), Time (magazine), Todd Rundgren, Tom Waits, Tony Award, Tony Award for Best Original Score, Ute Lemper, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Walt Whitman, Walter Mehring, Where Do We Go from Here? (1945 film), Wilhelm Busch, Will Geer, William S. Burroughs, You and Me (1938 film), Yvan Goll, 1939 New York World's Fair. Expand index (201 more) »

A Kurt Weill Cabaret

A Kurt Weill Cabaret was a Broadway and off-Broadway production featuring the music of Kurt Weill.

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Abitur

Abitur is a qualification granted by university-preparatory schools in Germany, Lithuania, and Estonia.

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Academy of Arts, Berlin

The Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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Alabama Song

The "Alabama Song"—also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"—is an English version of a song written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny.

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alexander von Zemlinsky

Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky (14 October 1871 – 15 March 1942) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Amanda Palmer

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976), sometimes known as Amanda Palmer (AFP), is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls.

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Amar Quartet

The Amar Quartet, also known as the Amar-Hindemith Quartet, was a musical ensemble founded by the composer Paul Hindemith in 1921 in Germany and was active in both classical and modern repertoire until disbanding in 1929.

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Ann Miller

Johnnie Lucille Collier (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004), known professionally as Ann Miller, was an American dancer, singer and actress.

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Anna Ritter

Anna Ritter (Feb. 23, 1865 – Oct. 31, 1921) was a German poet and writer.

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Anne Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano.

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Anton Webern

Anton Friedrich Wilhelm (von) Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

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Arno Holz

Arno Holz (26 April 1863 Rastenburg – October 1929, Berlin) was a German naturalist poet and dramatist.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter.

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Arthur Siegel

Arthur Siegel (December 31, 1923 - September 13, 1994) was an American songwriter.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is a state in southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the border with France.

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Battle Hymn of the Republic

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic," also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," outside of the United States, is a lyric by the American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body." Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861, and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.

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Bebe Neuwirth

Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.

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Bede

Bede (italic; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Bēda Venerābilis), was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St.

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Ben Bagley

Ben Bagley (October 18, 1933 – March 21, 1998) was an American musical producer and record producer.

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Berlin Philharmonic

The Berlin Philharmonic (Berliner Philharmoniker) is a German orchestra based in Berlin.

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Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill

Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill is a musical revue with a book by Gene Lerner, music by Kurt Weill, and lyrics by various songwriting partners Weill worked with over his career.

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Berlin University of the Arts

The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television.

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Book of Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations (אֵיכָה, ‘Êykhôh, from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem.

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Bruno Walter

Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist and composer.

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Caesar Hochstetter

Caesar Hochstetter (also known by the pen name Caesar Ahrlsteller) was an organist and a composer, arranger and critic of music from a talented Jewish family.

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Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.

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Carla Bley

Carla Bley (née Lovella May Borg; born May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader.

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Cello sonata

A cello sonata is usually a sonata written for solo cello or small instrument ensemble.

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Charlie Haden

Charles Edward "Charlie" Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator known for his deep, warm sound, and whose career spanned more than fifty years.

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Chita Rivera

Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theatre.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms.

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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Communist Party of Germany

The Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956.

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Dagmar Krause

Dagmar Krause (born 4 June 1950) is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups including Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, and Art Bears.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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David Atherton

David Atherton OBE, (born 3 January 1944) is an English conductor and co-founder of the London Sinfonietta.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Drew (writer)

David Drew (September 19, 1930 – 25 July 2009) was a British journalist on music, particularly known for his work on Kurt Weill.

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer.

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Der Kuhhandel

Der Kuhhandel (A Kingdom for a Cow or Arms and the Cow) is an operetta by Kurt Weill.

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Der Silbersee

Der Silbersee: ein Wintermärchen (The Silver Lake: a Winter's Fairy Tale) is a 'play with music' in three acts by Kurt Weill to a German text by Georg Kaiser.

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Dessau

Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of corporation called PolyGram.

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Die Bürgschaft (opera)

(The Pledge) is an opera in three acts by Kurt Weill.

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Divertimento

Divertimento (from the Italian divertire "to amuse") is a musical genre, with most of its examples from the 18th century.

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Down in the Valley (folk song)

"Down in the Valley", also known as "Birmingham Jail", is a traditional country-blues American folk song.

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Down in the Valley (opera)

Down in the Valley is a folk-opera in one act by composer Kurt Weill and librettist Arnold Sundgaard, initially composed and conceived for the radio in 1945 then rewritten and produced in 1948.

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Downstate New York

Downstate New York is a term denoting the portion of New York State, United States, in contrast to Upstate New York.

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Duke Special

Duke Special (born Peter Wilson; January 4, 1971) is a songwriter and performer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Elmer Rice

Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

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Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)

Engelbert Humperdinck (1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera Hansel and Gretel.

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Erich Kästner

Emil Erich Kästner (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives.

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Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Alfred Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher.

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Ernst Hardt

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Hardt (9 May 1876 – 3 January 1947), born Ernst Stöckhardt, was a German playwright, poet, and novelist.

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Estelle Parsons

Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American actress, singer and stage director.

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Fantômas

Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914).

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Felt Mountain

Felt Mountain is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, released on 11 September 2000 by Mute Records.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland who is best known for writing a poem which later became the lyrics for the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Franz Werfel

Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.

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Free University of Berlin

The Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a research university located in Berlin, Germany.

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Fritz Busch

Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 – 14 September 1951) was a German conductor.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

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G. W. Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967), known professionally as G. W. Pabst, was an Austrian theatre and film director.

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Gary Bertini

Gary Bertini (Hebrew: גארי ברתיני) (May 1, 1927—March 17, 2005) was an Israeli conductor and composer.

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Georg Kaiser

Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (25 November 1878 – 4 June 1945) was a German dramatist.

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Georgia Brown (English singer)

Georgia Brown (21 October 1933 – 5 July 1992) was an English singer and actress.

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Gianluigi Trovesi

Gianluigi Trovesi (born 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Gianni Coscia

Gianni Coscia is an Italian jazz accordionist.

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Gisela May

Gisela May (31 May 1924 – 2 December 2016) was a German actress and singer.

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Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp are an English electronic music duo from London, formed in 1999.

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Grünheide (Mark)

Grünheide (Mark) is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Group Theatre (New York City)

The Group Theatre was a theater collective based in New York City and formed in 1931 by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Hal Willner

Hal Willner (born 1956) is an American music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events.

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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I).

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Hans Knappertsbusch

Hans Knappertsbusch (12 March 1888 – 25 October 1965) was a German conductor, best known for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner and Richard Strauss as well as his unique public persona and conducting style.

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Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades.

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Haverstraw (village), New York

Haverstraw is a village incorporated in 1854 in the town of Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York, United States.

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Haverstraw, New York

Haverstraw is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the Town of Clarkstown and the Town of Ramapo; east of Orange County, New York; south of the Town of Stony Point; and west of the Hudson River.

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Hazzan

A hazzan or chazzan (חַזָּן, plural; Yiddish khazn; Ladino hassan) is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer.

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Heinz Karl Gruber

Heinz Karl 'Nali' Gruber (born 3 January 1943), who styles himself HK Gruber professionally, is an Austrian composer, conductor, bass player and singer.

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Heinz Unger

Heinz Unger (14 December 1895 – 25 February 1965 The Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed 11 Nov 2014.) was a German conductor, known particularly for conducting the works of Gustav Mahler.

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Henry Jolles

Henry Jolles (born Heinz-Frederic Jolles; 28 November 1902 – 16 July 1965), was a German pianist and composer.

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High Tor State Park

High Tor State Park is a state park on the north edge of the Town of Clarkstown in Rockland County, New York, United States.

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Home front

Home front is the informal term for the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system of their military.

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Howard Da Silva

Howard Da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986) was an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio.

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Howard Dietz

Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 – July 30, 1983) was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist.

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Huckleberry Finn (EP)

Huckleberry Finn is a 2010 EP by Duke Special, featuring songs composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson from an unfinished musical based on Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Ian Fraser (composer)

Ian Fraser (23 August 1933 – 31 October 2014) was an English composer, conductor, orchestrator, arranger and music director.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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Jacques Deval

Jacques Deval (1895–1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.

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Jacques Loussier

Jacques Loussier (born 26 October 1934) is a French pianist and composer.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Jo Sullivan Loesser

Elizabeth Josephine Sullivan Loesser (born August 28, 1927) is an American soprano and the widow of composer Frank Loesser.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, CBE HonFBA (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and of other baroque music.

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John Garfield

John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters.

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John Gay

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.

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John Reardon (baritone)

John Reardon (8 April 193016 April 1988) was an American baritone and actor who was noted for his performances on television, including many appearances on the PBS children's television show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music.

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Johnny Johnson (musical)

Johnny Johnson is a musical with a book and lyrics by Paul Green and music by Kurt Weill.

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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a Prussian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist.

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Judah Halevi

Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi; يهوذا اللاوي; 1075 – 1141) was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher.

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Judy Collins

Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards) and for her social activism.

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Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American poet and author, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." She was also an advocate for abolitionism and was a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage.

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Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making.

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Kazik Staszewski

Kazimierz Piotr Staszewski (born 12 March 1963 in Warsaw), also known as Kazik, is a Polish singer and songwriter.

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Kroll Opera House

The Kroll Opera House (Krolloper, Kroll-Oper) was an opera building in Berlin, Germany, located in the central Tiergarten district on the western edge of the Königsplatz square (today Platz der Republik), facing the Reichstag building.

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Kurzweil Music Systems

Kurzweil Music Systems is an American company that produces electronic musical instruments.

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Ladenburg

Ladenburg is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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Lüdenscheid

Lüdenscheid is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby, December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

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Lied

The lied (plural lieder;, plural, German for "song") is a setting of a German poem to classical music.

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Lion Feuchtwanger

Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright.

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Lisy Fischer

Elisabeth (Lisy) Fischer (born 22 August 1900Certified Archival Documents with birth and marriage dates (Charlottenberg, Berlin), birth certificate of daughter (Amsterdam) and death certificate for Lisy Fischer (UK) in Zurich, Switzerland – died 6 June 1999 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) was a talented pianist from a talented Jewish family.

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London Sinfonietta

The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London.

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Lortel Archives

The Lortel Archives, or the Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDb) is an online database that catalogues theatre productions shown off-Broadway.

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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is an American chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California.

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Lost in the Stars

Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton.

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Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill

Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is a 1985 tribute album to German-American composer Kurt Weill.

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Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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LoveMusik

LoveMusik is a musical written by Alfred Uhry, using a selection of music by Kurt Weill.

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Lys Gauty

Lys Gauty (born Alice Bonnefoux Gauthier 2 February 1900 – 2 January 1994) was a French cabaret singer and actress.

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Lys Symonette

Bertlies "Lys" Symonette (born Berta Weinschenk: 21 December 1914 – 27 November 2005) was a German-American pianist, chorus singer and musical stage performer.

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Mack the Knife

"Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" (later known as "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera.

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Manhattan Center

The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located at 311 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, houses Manhattan Center Studios (home to two recording studios), its Grand Ballroom, and the Hammerstein Ballroom, one of New York City's most renowned performance venues.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Monnem or Mannem) is a city in the southwestern part of Germany, the third-largest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe with a 2015 population of approximately 305,000 inhabitants.

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Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and actress.

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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is a Canadian author and political commentator.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.

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Mary Margaret O'Hara

Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress.

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Maurice Abravanel

Maurice Abravanel (January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993) was an American conductor of classical music.

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Max Dessoir

Maximilian Dessoir (8 February 1867 – 19 July 1947) was a German philosopher, psychologist and theorist of aesthetics.

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Max Raabe

Max Raabe (born Matthias Otto, December 12, 1962, Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German singer.

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Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916), commonly known as Max Reger, was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher.

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Maxwell Anderson

James Maxwell Anderson (December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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My Country, 'Tis of Thee

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as "America", is an American patriotic song, whose lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith.

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My Ship

"My Ship" is a popular song written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Nell Carter

Nell Carter (born Nell Ruth Hardy; September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress.

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New City, New York

New City is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, United States, part of the New York Metropolitan Area.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Nichols, Connecticut

Nichols, a historic village in southeastern Trumbull on the Gold Coast (Connecticut) of Fairfield County, was named after the family who maintained a large farm in its center for almost 300 years.

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Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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Nikolaus Lenau

Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet.

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Nikos Skalkottas

Nikos Skalkottas (Nίκος Σκαλκώτας; 21 March 1904 – 19 September 1949) was a Greek composer of 20th-century classical music.

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Ninon de l'Enclos

Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos (10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705) was a French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts.

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November Group (German)

The November Group (Novembergruppe) was a group of German expressionist artists and architects.

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One-act play

A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.

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Otto Klemperer

Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a Jewish German-born conductor and composer, described as "the last of the few really great conductors of his generation.".

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Paul Green (playwright)

Paul Eliot Green (March 17, 1894 – May 4, 1981) was an American playwright best known for his historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Philipp Jarnach

Philipp Jarnach (26 July 189217 December 1982) was a composer of modern music.

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Pine Brook Country Club

Pine Brook Country Club began when Benjamin Plotkin purchased Pinewood Lake and the surrounding countryside on Mischa Hill in the historic village of Nichols, Connecticut.

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Pirate Jenny

"Pirate Jenny" (German: "") is a well-known song from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht.

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PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey, MBE (born 9 October 1969) known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist.

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Répétiteur

A répétiteur (from French verb répéter meaning "to repeat, to go over, to learn, to rehearse") is an accompanist, tutor or coach of ballet dancers or opera singers.

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Richard Dehmel

Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (18 November 1863 – 8 February 1920) was a German poet and writer.

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Richard Woitach

Richard Woitach (born 1936) is an American conductor, pianist, and composer.

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

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Robbie Williams

Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.

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Robert Desnos

Robert Desnos (4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Rockland County, New York

Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Roger Rees

Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work.

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Samuel Francis Smith

Samuel Francis Smith (October 21, 1808 – November 16, 1895) was an American Baptist minister, journalist, and author.

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Sarah Slean

Sarah Hope Slean (born June 21, 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, visual artist and occasional actress.

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Saxony

The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen; Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions).

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September Song

"September Song" is an American pop standard song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical production Knickerbocker Holiday.

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September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill

September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill is a video documentary recorded in 1994 that was produced and directed by Larry Weinstein, and written by Weinstein and David Mortin.

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Singspiel

A Singspiel (plural: Singspiele; literally "sing-play") is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera.

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.

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Speak Low

"Speak Low" (1943) is a popular song composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Ogden Nash.

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Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span are an English folk rock band formed in 1969.

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Stefan Wolpe

Stefan Wolpe (August 25, 1902 – April 4, 1972) was a German-born composer.

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Stephen Hinton

Stephen Hinton (born 1955, London, England) is a British-American musicologist at Stanford University.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Street Scene (opera)

Street Scene is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book).

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String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

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Suite (music)

A suite, in Western classical music and jazz, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Symphonic poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.

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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.

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Tammy Grimes

Tammy Lee Grimes (January 30, 1934 – October 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer.

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Teresa Stratas

Teresa Stratas, OC (born May 26, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario), is a retired Canadian operatic soprano of Greek descent.

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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and John Densmore on drums.

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The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls is an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Eternal Road (opera)

The Eternal Road is an opera-oratorio with spoken dialogue in four acts by Kurt Weill with a libretto (originally in German: – The Way of the Covenant), by Austrian novelist and playwright Franz Werfel and translated into English by Ludwig Lewisohn.

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The Flight Across the Ocean

The Flight across the Ocean (Der Ozeanflug) is a Lehrstück by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, inspired by We, Charles Lindbergh's 1927 account of his transatlantic flight.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.

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The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté)

The Seven Deadly Sins (Die sieben Todsünden, Les sept péchés capitaux) is a satirical ballet chanté ("sung ballet") in seven scenes (nine movements) composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht in 1933 under a commission from Boris Kochno and Edward James.

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The Star-Spangled Banner

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

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The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.

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The Threepenny Opera (1931 film)

The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper) is a 1931 German musical film directed by G. W. Pabst.

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The Young Gods

The Young Gods are a Swiss industrial rock band from Fribourg.

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The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill

Play Kurt Weill is a cover album released by Swiss Industrial band The Young Gods.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.

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Theresienstadt concentration camp

Theresienstadt concentration camp, also referred to as Theresienstadt ghetto, was a concentration camp established by the SS during World War II in the garrison city of Terezín (Theresienstadt), located in German-occupied Czechoslovakia.

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This Is New (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)

This is New is a 2002 album by Dee Dee Bridgewater, dedicated to the songs of Kurt Weill.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Todd Rundgren

Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Award for Best Original Score

The Tony Award for Best Original Score is the Tony Award given to the composers and lyricists of the best original score written for a musical or play in that year.

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Ute Lemper

Ute Lemper (born 4 July 1963) is a German singer and actress renowned for her interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill.

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Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (German: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, or RSO Wien) is the orchestra of the Austrian national broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF).

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Walter Mehring

Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic.

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Where Do We Go from Here? (1945 film)

Where Do We Go from Here (1945) Technicolor is a romantic musical comedy-fantasy film produced by Twentieth Century-Fox, and starring Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, June Haver, Gene Sheldon, Anthony Quinn and Fortunio Bonanova.

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Wilhelm Busch

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter.

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Will Geer

Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist, known for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series The Waltons.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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You and Me (1938 film)

You and Me is a 1938 American crime film noir directed by Fritz Lang starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft.

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Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll (born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German.

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1939 New York World's Fair

The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill

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