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Library JournalMordden, your go-to guy about anything having to do with the musical theater, here offers what must inevitably be a dual biography of the cantor's son and the coachman's daughter who joined forces to give us some of the greatest musical theater of the 20th century. Worth a lot more than three pennies. Publishers WeeklyOne of the 20th-century's greatest composers, Weill, a Jewish cantor's son in Germany, whose only interest was music and who wrote an adaptation of a Rilke poem when he was 19, changed when he met the attractive and pleasing daughter of a Viennese coachman, Lotte Lenya, in Berlin. Lenya's mother had told the young girl that though she was not pretty, men would be crazy about her all her life, and indeed she wrapped Weill and numerous other musicians, artists, actors, dancers, and audiences around her little finger.