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Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1949; it was the composer's last work for the stage before he died the following year.
- Maxwell Anderson
- Kurt Weill
- Maxwell Anderson
- 1949 Broadway, 1972 Broadway revival, 1974 film adaptation, 1992 Music Masters complete recording
Lost in the Stars - The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Musical tragedy in two acts after Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country . Book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. Duration. Full Evening, 60 minutes music. First Broadway Production.
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Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is a 1985 tribute album to German-American composer Kurt Weill. It was executive-produced by Hal Willner and John Telfer, and produced by Hal Willner and Paul M. Young.
No.TitleArtistLength1."Introduction" (from ...0:482."The Ballad of Mack The Knife" (from The ...Sting and Dominic Muldowney2:433."The Cannon Song" (from The Threepenny ...The Fowler Brothers and Stan Ridgway2:174."Ballad of the Soldier's Wife"Marianne Faithfull and Chris Spedding4:21- 60:08
- A&M
- October 1985
- Hal Willner, Paul M. Young
Weill created a prototype of the polystylism of composers of the late 20th and early 21st century, and Lost in the Stars is, perhaps even more than Street Scene, his most polystylistic work.
by Kim H. Kowalke. Shortly after Kurt Weill arrived in New York in September 1935, George Gershwin invited him to the dress rehearsal of Porgy and Bess at the Alvin Theatre.
