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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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