Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya ebook

by Kurt & Lotte Lenya Weill (Author), Illus. with photos (Illustrator).

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The letters of "Speak Low," between Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya, reveal the private side of the couple's successes first in. .They run from 1924, when they first met, to about 15 months before Weill's death, dated 25 November 1948.

The letters of "Speak Low," between Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya, reveal the private side of the couple's successes first in Germany, Austria and France, then during their years as refugees in the . Determination, pluck and the enormous gifts of both raised their reputations to the top of . musical theatre during the war and postwar periods. Tenderness, passion and creativity flow through the letters dating from the pair's meeting in Germany in the 1920s until Weill's premature death a quarter century later.

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950; Symonette, Lys; Kowalke, Kim . 1948 . Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. Uploaded by sf-loadersive. org on September 8, 2010. SIMILAR ITEMS (based on metadata). Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014).

Kurt Weill was a German cantor's son, cerebral, well-educated. Fiercely independent and yet codependent, Weill and Lenya spent twenty-five years discovering a way to live together after realizing that they couldn't live apart

Kurt Weill was a German cantor's son, cerebral, well-educated. When they met, she was a domestic worker in the home of the playwright he had come to recruit as a librettist. Fiercely independent and yet codependent, Weill and Lenya spent twenty-five years discovering a way to live together after realizing that they couldn't live apart. Weill gave music to her voice, Lenya gave voice to his music.

Composer/songwriter Kurt Weill (1900-50) and singer/actress Lotte Lenya .

Composer/songwriter Kurt Weill (1900-50) and singer/actress Lotte Lenya (1898-1981) were an ill-matched pair: he from a Jewish family, a serious composer, devoted to his wife; she a Catholic girl who fell into a career as an actress/singer and had many affairs throughout their marriage. Then, the book proceeds chronologically through all the extant letters, beginning in 1924 and ending in 1948, two years before the composer's death. This is the complete correspondence of Weill and Lenya, though because she preserved far more of his letters than he did of hers, the book tends to heavily favor Weill's voice. When they met, They were an unlikely couple. Kurt Weill was a German cantor's son, cerebral, well-educated.

Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya. Not since perhaps Eleanor and Franklin has there been so provocative a public pair: fiercely independent and yet codependent, they spent twenty-five years discovering a way they could live together after they figured out that they couldn't live apart. In 1932 they separated; in 1933 they divorced.

In: Tempo, pp. 43-44. View it in the Music Periodicals Database.