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    Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when...
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  • The Cradle Will Rock (category Operas by Marc Blitzstein)
    The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 play in music by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles and...
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  • Mack the Knife (category Songs with lyrics by Marc Blitzstein)
    days. The best-known English translation of the song comes from the Marc Blitzstein's 1954 version of The Threepenny Opera, which played Off-Broadway for...
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    stage actor who in 1937 appeared in the original stage production of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Cimino's most well known roles are in the 1983...
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  • and racketeer Marc Blitzstein (1905–1964), American composer, lyricist, and librettist This page lists people with the surname Blitzstein. If an internal...
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  • Regina is an opera by Marc Blitzstein, to his own libretto based on the play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman. It was completed in 1948 and premiered...
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  • surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; it adapts history to create an account of the original production...
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    become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as "Mack the Knife", and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong,...
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  • Pirate Jenny (category Songs with lyrics by Marc Blitzstein)
    Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. The English lyrics are by Marc Blitzstein. It is one of the best known songs in the opera, after "Mack the Knife"...
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    into the physical shape the part required. Azaria played composer Marc Blitzstein in Tim Robbins' film Cradle Will Rock in 1999. Paul Clinton wrote that...
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  • where it ran for 182 performances. Incidental music was composed by Marc Blitzstein, the scenic and lighting design were by Jo Mielziner, and the costume...
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  • production included "French Lessons in Songs" and "Bernier Day" by Marc Blitzstein. In his review in the New York Herald Tribune, Walter Kerr said the...
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    folk tune" while studying at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1928, Marc Blitzstein orchestrated "Variations sur 'Au Claire de la Lune'." In 1955, Swiss...
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    HarperCollins Publishers 1992 ISBN 0-06-016616-9 Lehrman, Leonard, Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2005. ISBN 9780313300271...
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    maintained close friendships with many artists and intellectuals, including Marc Blitzstein, Lillian Hellman, Jennie Tourel, Richard Avedon, Martha Gellhorn, Stephen...
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    directing its action from the piano as the composer Marc Blitzstein had done at the infamous premiere. Blitzstein, who attended the performance, subsequently...
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    Playwrights' Company, Oliver Smith, and Oliver Rea Music and Lyrics by Marc Blitzstein; Book by Joseph Stein December 29, 1959 – June 1, 1960 The Andersonville...
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  • and the Bronx Opera. He edited The Marc Blitzstein Songbook (3v., Boosey & Hawkes 1999–2003), authored Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood/Praeger...
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  • Sheldon Harnick Harnick The Cradle Will Rock 1938 Broadway Marc Blitzstein Blitzstein Blitzstein Cranks 1956 Broadway revue John Addison John Cranko — Crazy...
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  • Tales of Malamud is the name of two, one-act operas by Marc Blitzstein based on two stories by American writer Bernard Malamud. Namely, “Idiots First”...
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  • I've Got the Tune (category Operas by Marc Blitzstein)
    I've Got the Tune is an American radio opera with words and music by Marc Blitzstein. Dedicated to Orson Welles, it was commissioned by CBS Radio for its...
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    Vanzetti for narrator, mixed ensemble, and electronics. American composer Marc Blitzstein started an opera about Sacco and Vanzetti, which was unfinished at...
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  • diplomat Marc Blitzstein, American composer Marc Bloch (1886–1944), French historian Marc Blondin, French Canadian professional wrestling commentator Marc Blucas...
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  • The Airborne Symphony (category Compositions by Marc Blitzstein)
    (also known as Symphony: The Airborne) is a work by American composer Marc Blitzstein for narrator, vocal soloists, male chorus, and large orchestra that...
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    including the role of Larry Foreman in the legendary first production of Marc Blitzstein's musical, The Cradle Will Rock (1938). Later, he costarred in the original...
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    a musical adaptation of Juno and the Paycock by American composer Marc Blitzstein. The musical, retitled Juno, was a commercial failure, closing after...
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  • Lumet, John Randolph, Joseph Bromberg, Michael Gordon, Paul Green, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Strand, Anna Sokolow, Lee J. Cobb, Roman Bohnen, Jay Adler, Luther...
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    surrounding Welles and John Houseman's production of the 1937 musical by Marc Blitzstein. Welles is played by actor Angus MacFadyen. Austin Pendleton's 2000...
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  • Marc Blitzstein wrote his Piano Concerto for piano and orchestra in 1931 when he was 25 years old. The concerto was not performed in public during the...
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  • Sacco and Vanzetti is a 2001 opera by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Lehrman. In 1959, composer Marc Blitzstein began work on what he expected to be his magnum...
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