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Blitzstein (German: "lightning stone") is an Ashke**** surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Herbert Blitzstein (1934–1997),
American loanshark...
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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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Herbert "Fat Herbie"
Blitzstein (November 2, 1934 –
January 6, 1997) was an
American mobster who was a loanshark, bookmaker,
racketeer and
lieutenant to...
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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, bringing...
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Regina is an
opera by Marc
Blitzstein, to his own
libretto based on the play The
Little Foxes by
Lillian ****man. It was
completed in 1948 and premiered...
- 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...
- was
recorded by
Louis Armstrong in 1955 with
translated lyrics by Marc
Blitzstein. The most po****r
version of the song was by
Bobby Darin in 1959, whose...
- 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...
- People. The
latter was
later produced as a
television series. (Also, Marc
Blitzstein's papers show that
Guthrie made some
contributions to four CIO episodes...
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become the work's most po****r song,
later translated into
English by Marc
Blitzstein as "Mack the Knife", and now a jazz
standard that
Louis Armstrong, Bobby...
