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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. They reunited in Paris in 1935 and then went to New York; in 1937 they remarried and together applied for American citizenship. Except for brief periods of separation, their relationship remained what it had always been, simultaneously tenacious and tumultuous. Yet Weill and Lenya required one another on a creative level that transcended ordinary emotional, erotic, and professional bonds. Although she was musically untrained, Lenya's canny theatrical sensitivity and innate intelligence enabled her to become Weill's most trusted critic as well as his most famous interpreter, especially as Jenny in The Threepenny Opera. As Weill rhapsodized, "When I feel this longing for you, I think most of all of the sound of your voice, which I love like a very force of nature." The letters are filled with artistic news, reactions to world events, reports on work-in-progress, and reflections on the creative process and the experience of exile. We get a backstage view of German music and theater, the American musical theater in the late thirties and forties, and the Hollywood studios. Together Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya have come to symbolize what was most vibrant about the experiment of Weimar culture in the Golden Twenties and what was most vital among the contributions to American culture by Central European emigres.
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"I couldn't stop reading. Even though I knew Weill and Lenya for fifteen years, their private side, as unveiled in these letters, is a revelation. . . . This is an exhilarating correspondence, which is also a panorama of the golden years of theater and music in the twentieth century."Burgess Meredith
"A lovingly assembled, translated, and annotated collection of intimate letters, full of sometimes dishy gossip, from two of the most fascinating personalities of the twentieth century. A record of momentous events refracted through a love as complex as it was intense."John Rockwell
"One day near the end [Lenya] looked at me with those searing eyes and confessed, 'I've always envied you because you were able to sing Lulu.' I countered, 'But Lenya, you are Lulu.' And now that her revealing autobiographical fragment and these gripping letters are published, her portrait emerges in colors as vivid as Lulu's. Lenya and Weill remain unique and essential for the art of our time."Teresa Stratas
"Fascinating. . . . The collection is lavishly and definitively informative about the highest show-biz milieu of the period. These letters are intimate without sentimentality, intelligent without literary pose, gossipy without slander, informedly opinionated without deviousness, and business-like without toughness. I'm deeply admiring of the skillfully caring annotational glue provided by the editors."Ned Rorem, composer
"An impressive and enormously engrossing read about two of this century's greatest artists. If you love the theater, you will love knowing more about Kurt Weill and his enchanting Lenya. I certainly did."Fred Ebb, lyricist ofCabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"Because Weill and Lenya were ardent and explicit letter writers and seemingly met everyone working in music and theater, there are fascinating insights into the lives of the masters of the first half of this century. Vividly and entertainingly organized by Kowalke and Symonette, Speak Low is invigorating! It was impossible to put down."Harold Prince (theater director/producer)
"Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya were an indispensable theatrical couple and this exchange of letters is an indispensable record of their relationship. It is also a record of great musical achievement both in Europe and the United States."Robert Brustein (theater critic and stage director, head of American Repertory Theater in Boston, formerly head of Yale Repertory Theater)
"Behind the legends of a legendary relationship, this invaluable compendium of the extant correspondence reveals layer upon layer of fascinating reality. Readers of every kind will be grateful to the editors for their inspired research and brilliant detective work."David Drew (Weill scholar, editor, critic, music publishing executive)
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- Año de publicación1996
- ISBN 10 0520078535
- ISBN 13 9780520078536
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- Número de páginas554
- EditorSymonette Lys, Kowalke Kim H.
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