@article{455046,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Mordden, Ethan,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455046},
      title = {Love song : the lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya /},
      publisher = {St. Martin's Press,},
      abstract = {For the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance  of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in "Love Song", a dual  biography that unfolds against the background of the  tumultous twentieth century, scored to music from Weil's  greatest triumphs: "Knickerbocker Holiday", "Lost in the  Stars", "Lady in the Dark", "Happy End", "One Touch of  Venus" and "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny".  The romance of Weill, the Jewish cantor's son, and Lenya,  the Viennese coachman's daughter, changed the history of  Western music. With Bertolt Brecht, they created one of the  definitive works of the twentieth century, The Threepenny  Opera, a smash that would live on in musical theatre  history. Weill, the jazz Mozart, was the creator whose work  is backstage, unseen. Lenya, his epic-theatre femme fatale,  was the performer who put the work into view. They heard  the same unique music, but he gave it form while she gave  it life. "Love Song" is ultimately the story of a great  romance scored to some of the twentieth century's greatest  music.},
      recid = {455046},
      pages = {x, 334 p. [8] leaves of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2012},
}