NOT SENT
November 9, 2023

Dear Nathaniel,

After spending the day reading about Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. I conclude
that I know almost nothing about modern music, especially about Broadway musicals. I have ignored them for 80 years;it's now too late even to try to catch up.

Kurt Weill's alienation from European music is summarized in this quote: Life, 17. März 1947, S. 17; “Although I was born in Germany, I do not consider myself a ‘German composer.’ The Nazis obviously did not consider me as such either and I left their country (an arrangement which suited both me and my rulers admirably) in 1933. I am an American citizen and during my dozen years in this country have composed exclusively for the American stage […]”.