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Unsung Weill: songs cut from Broadway musicals and Hollywood films

Title: Unsung Weill: songs cut from Broadway musicals and Hollywood films [videorecording] / Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; producer, Alan J. Pally.
Publication: New York, 2002.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (48 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Program of songs composed for stage shows or films by Kurt Weill, in collaboration with various lyricists, including Langston Hughes, Maxwell Anderson, Ira Gershwin, Ogden Nash, Ann Ronell, Alan Jay Lerner, Paul Green, and Sam Coslow.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Musicals.

Note

No credits on tape. Program information gathered from the files of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

Introductory remarks: Alan J. Pally.
Vocalists: Jennifer Goode and Jacob Langfelder.
Pianist: Keith Thompson.

Event (note)

Videotaped in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 7, 2002.

Contents

Song / (project) / lyricist: Streetlight is my moonlight (Street scene) / Langston Hughes -- How far will you go with me? (Knickerbocker holiday) / Maxwell Anderson -- It's never too late to Mendelssohn (Lady in the dark) / Ira Gershwin -- Love in a mist (One touch of Venus) / Ogden Nash -- Bats about you (Lady in the dark) / Ira Gershwin -- Unforgettable (Lady in the dark) / Ira Gershwin -- Who am I? (One touch of Venus) / Ogden Nash -- The river is so blue (The river is blue) / Ann Ronell -- How I love my work (Love life) / Alan Jay Lerner -- You understand me so (Love life) / Alan Jay Lerner -- Vive la Differénce (One touch of Venus) / Ogden Nash -- Great big sky (Street scene) / Langston Hughes -- The little tin god (Lost in the stars) / Maxwell Anderson -- Farewell, goodbye (Johnny Johnson) / Paul Green -- The romance of a lifetime (You and me) / Sam Coslow -- Your technique (unknown project) / Ann Ronell -- Too much to dream (You and me) / Sam Coslow -- It could have happened to anyone (Where do we go from here?) / Ira Gershwin -- There's nothing left for Daddy but the Rhumba (Love life) / Alan Jay Lerner.

Call Number

NCOV 3807

OCLC

820570673

Title

Unsung Weill: songs cut from Broadway musicals and Hollywood films [videorecording] / Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; producer, Alan J. Pally.

Imprint

New York, 2002.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

Introductory remarks: Alan J. Pally.

Vocalists: Jennifer Goode and Jacob Langfelder.

Pianist: Keith Thompson.

Event

Videotaped in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 7, 2002.

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Added Author

Pally, Alan J, producer.

Pally, Alan J, speaker.

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950, composer.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, lyricist.

Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959, lyricist.

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, lyricist.

Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971, lyricist.

Ronell, Ann, lyricist.

Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986, lyricist.

Green, Paul, 1894-1981, lyricist.

Coslow, Sam, 1902-1982, lyricist.

Cooper, Jennifer Goode, performer.

Langfelder, Jacob, performer.

Thompson, Keith, instrumentalist.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, producer.

Research Call Number

NCOV 3807

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