Marc Blitzstein
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Marc Blitzstein
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Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation/adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musica
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American composer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blitzstein
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2003-09-17T23:16:52Z
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2024-09-02T22:04:23Z
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