abstract:Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, better known as Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer. 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.
Auden and his poet-boyfriend, Chester Kallman, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Jane and Paul Bowles, Oliver Smith, MarcBlitzstein, Richard Wright, and Gypsy Rose Lee.