LENYA, LOTTE

lôtˈə lĕnˈyä, 1898–1981, Viennese singer and character actress, b. Caroline Blamauer. The wife of the composer Kurt Weill, Lenya was the foremost singer of his songs. She and Weill fled Germany in 1933 to work in the United States, where she appeared in The Threepenny Opera (as Jenny, a role she created in Berlin), Brecht on Brecht, Mahagonny, and Cabaret. Lenya has also made recordings and films (including The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, 1961, and From Russia with Love, 1963).

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books on: Lenya Lotte  - 95 results

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Yankee Blues: Musical Culture and American Identity
Book by MacDonald Smith Moore; Indiana University Press, 1985
Subjects: Music--United States--History And Criticism
48. Ibid . 49. Lawrence Adler, "Jonny and Manon," Nation , 27 February 1929, p. 264. 50. Lotte Lenya, "Lotte Lenya Remembers Mahagonny," and H. H. Stuckenschmidt , "City of Nets," both notes for Columbia K3L 243, pp...
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Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere
Book by Erik Ryding, Rebecca Pechefsky; University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Subjects: Conductors (Music)--Biography, Walter, Bruno--1876-1962
...i8o Lehmann, Lilli, 82 Lehmann, Lotte, i65-66, i76, i7g, ig8, 199...Walters departure fro, 219 -20 Lenya, Lotte, 240 Leoncavallo, Ruggero: Pagliacci...Karl Ludwig, 2g7, 332-33 Lindt, Lotte Walter (daughter, 1903- 1970...
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Classical Singers of the Opera and Recital Stages: A Bibliography of Biographical Materials
Book by Robert H. Cowden; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Singers--Biography--Bibliography
...Lemeshev . Moskva: Sov. Kompozitor, 1987. 399 p., illus., discography, bibliography. D0064A. Lenya, Lotte. C0771 . 4. Spoto Donald. Lenya: A Life . Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. xi, 371 p. + 32 p. plates, 54 illus...
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The World of Women in Classical Music
Book by Anne K. Gray; Seven Locks, 2007
Subjects: Instrumentalists, Women Composers, Women Conductors (Music), Women Musicians, Women Singers
...Ethel, 188, 306, 623 Lehmann, Liza, 50 Lehmann, Lotte, 709 Lehr, Catherine, 407 Lehwalder, Heidi, 273...303, 561 Lemare, Iris, 53 Lemon, J. Karla, 337 Lenya, Lotte, 712 Leon, Tania Justina, 212, 337 Leonarda, Isabella...
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Record Ratings: The Music Library Association's Index of Record Reviews
Book by Kurtz Myers, Richard S. Hill; Crown Publishers, 1956
Subjects: Music--Discography, Sound Recordings--Reviews--Indexes
...Leger, Agnes 170 Lehmann, Lilli 142 , 146 2 Lehmann, Lotte 142 , 144 , 242 , 258 , 291 , 342 2 , 374 , 389 Lehrer...198 , 258 2 , 289 , 290 , 382 , 383 Lenchner, Paula 48 Lenya, Lotte 294 2 Leon, Ignacio 64 Leonis, Rosario 1 Leprin, Frederic...
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journal articles on: Lenya Lotte  - 10 results

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Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi
Journal article by Allison Moore; Afterimage, Vol. 31, 2004
Subjects: Jacobi, Lotte--Criticism and interpretation, Jacobi, Lotte--Exhibitions, Portrait photography--Criticism and interpretation, Portrait photography--Exhibitions
...The Photographic Practice of Lotte Jacobi The Jewish Museum in New York...the German-born photographer Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) is remembered...admired, including Albert Einstein, Lotte Lenya, Paul Robeson, and Eleanor Roosevelt...
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The Adventures of Voskovec and Werich in America, 1939-1945
Journal article by Jarka M. Burian; Slavic and East European Performance, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: Comedians, Czechoslovakia, Musical theater, Popularity, United States, Voskovec, Jiri, Werich, Jan
...despite their brief reunion with Lotte Goslar, who joined them in their...coincided with the end of one of Lotte Goslars numbers. Thinking the storm...Berlin and included appearances by Lotte Lenya, Josef Schildkraut, Herbert Berghof...
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Recordare - Never to Forget*
Journal article by Alexander L. Ringer; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 13, 1993
Subjects: Lessem, Alan, Music history, Musical recordings, Musicians & conductors, Personal profiles
...picture moguls. In short, before he and his actress wife Lotte Lenya had time to feel like refugees in a strange country...financially secure, he obviously enjoyed life with his wife Lotte Lenya on their small countryside property not too far north...
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The Evolution of Cabaret
Journal article by Joe Blades; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 1, 1973
Subjects: Motion pictures, Novels, Society
...Bertolt Brecht and the score to tunes written by Kurt Weill (who had been married to Lotte Lenya (the Fraulein Schneider of Cabaret). According to Miss Lenya, who had lived in Berlin until 1 933 - when she and Weill escaped to Paris - Cabarets...
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Notes for Notes
Journal article by Dena J. Epstein; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 61, 2004
...Arnold Schoenberg, Theodor Adorno, Hermann Broch, Lotte Lehmann, Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Toller, Paul Hindemith, Otto Klemperer, Erich Korngold, Lotte Lenya, Ludwig Marcuse, Alfred Neumann, Max Reinhardt, Erich...
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magazine articles on: Lenya Lotte  - 39 results

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All in All, Just Another Pic on the Wall: Display Dulls Remarkable Photos
Magazine article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; World and I, Vol. 19, September 2004
Subjects: Jacobi, Lotte--Works, National Museum of Women in the Arts--Exhibitions, Photography--Exhibitions, Women photographers--Works
...important portraits from the photographers Berlin days are Lotte Lenya, Berlin (1928), Peter Lorre, Berlin (1930), Franz...WHAT: "Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi" WHERE: National Museum of Women in the Arts...
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With a Keen Eye on Europe : A Baroness' Stunning Photography Collection
Magazine article by Molly Arost Staub; World and I, Vol. 17, April 2002
Subjects: Photographers--Works, von Oppenheim, Jeane Wahl--Works
...everything before they ate it," said Burke. Perhaps the most recognizable photo is a famous shot of the actress Lotte Lenya taken by Lotte Jacobi during rehearsals for The Threepenny Opera in 1928 Berlin. Jacobi, whose work appeared regularly in...
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Sinful Memories: Allegra Kent Relives Balanchine's 7 Deadly Sins
Magazine article; Dance Magazine, Vol. 85, May 2011
Subjects: Dancing--Dance reviews, The Seven Deadly Sins (Dance)--Dance reviews
...Deadly Sins for me and Lotte Lenya, my skin tingled. I...Rouben Ter-Arutunian. Lotte Lenya would sing her original...I jump into his arms, Lenya photographs us and we...but I become tired. Lotte offers me a shoulder and...
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Weill Bodies
Magazine article by Brooke Allen; New Criterion, Vol. 25, June 2007
Subjects: LoveMusik (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews
...The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya (1996), the director Harold Prince...Cerveris as Weill and Donna Murphy as Lenya. The author and director have responded...grudging and uneasy--in the play, Lenya asks him incredulously whether he...
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Threepenny Composer: Kurt Weill Did Not, as Most Critics Would Have It, Sell out to Broadway after His Early Berlin Brilliance
Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, June 2000
Subjects: Composers, Weill, Kurt
...decidedly unclassical timbre of his defining interpreter, Lotte Lenya. Weill met Lenya in 1924. Her serrated-edge baritone-range voice...stand for the Brecht-Weill partnership. Weill and Lenya marred in 1926 and remained true to each other artistically...
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newspaper articles on: Lenya Lotte  - 39 results

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All in All, Just Another Pic on the Wall; Display Dulls Remarkable Photos
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 10, 2004
...portraits from the photographers Berlin days are "Lotte Lenya, Berlin" (1928), "Peter Lorre, Berlin...those 18 and younger PHONE: 202/783-5000 In Lotte Jacobis portrait "Lotte Lenya, Berlin" the singer-actresss eyes lock onto...
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Broadway Revives the Oddest Couple
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 9, 2007
Subjects: Broadway theater
...play on the lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, perhaps the oddest couple in classical...their Threepenny Opera star. But Lenya scorned marital fidelity and the...Oscar Hammerstein and Ogden Nash.. Lenya, hampered by a pumpernickel accent...
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Book: The Modesty of a Popular Iconoclast; Kurt Weill, A Life in Pictures and Documents. by David Farneth, with Elmar Juchem and Dave Stein (Thames & Hudson, Pounds 40). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds
Newspaper article by Richard Edmonds; The Birmingham Post (England), April 15, 2000
Subjects: Brecht, Bertolt, Weill, Kurt
...along with his ex-wife, the singer Lotte Lenya (who interpreted his songs better...frequently cynical, letters to Lenya. He even made the cover of Time...Sezuan. By 1948 Weill was telling Lenya, by now well known as a performer...
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Stripping Yarns; Gypsy Rose Lee Is Remembered for Taking off Her Clothes, but Richard Edmonds Says She Was Much More Than a Dancer
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 19, 2009
...went to European performers, such as the German singer Lotte Lenya, who crossed the Atlantic with the composer Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and The Threepenny Opera. Lenya was the real thing singing of social corruption in Germany...
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Patti's Pals Pitch It High
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 24, 2005
Subjects: Smith, Patti
...almost right when she said it would be impossible to fill Lotte Lenyas shoes. The German chanteuses cracked, gutteral...brilliantly minimal accordion. It was a definite challenge to Lotte Lenya. The programme reintroduced many legends, including...
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encyclopedia articles on: Lenya Lotte  - 2 results

 
 
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Lenya, Lotte
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LENYA, LOTTE lot len ya, 1898 1981, Viennese singer...The wife of the composer Kurt Weill , Lenya was the foremost singer of his songs. She...Brecht on Brecht, Mahagonny, and Cabaret. Lenya has also made recordings and films (including...
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Weill, Kurt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Down in the Valley (1948), and Lost in the Stars (1949; written with Maxwell Anderson). His wife, the singer Lotte Lenya , played many of the leading roles in his works and was his defining interpreter. Weill also wrote some instrumental...


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