My Lists
Featured Lists
Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
By Mordden, Ethan
- ISBN
- 978-0-31267-657-5
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2012 | Performing Arts
Less a dual biography than an engrossing walk through 1930s opera and musical theater in Germany and the United States, this book by prolific theater historian Mordden (The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication—from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote’s Ball) uses the lives of Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer (better known as Lotte Lenya) and Kurt Weill, who was from a Jewish family living about 75 m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
