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Lenya-Weill letters reveal the people behind the icons
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Today Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill stand as cultural icons. In the
minds of most people, images of Berlin in the '20s have a soundtrack
by Weill, and Lenya is singing it.
While she was still alive -- and she lived until 1981 -- Lenya
became the sum of the songs she had sung, the roles she had played,
particularly the ones in "The Threepenny Opera," which she performed
over a span of nearly 50 years. Long before the time she embarked
on the long Broadway run of "Cabaret" in 1966, Lenya w...
