Editing Kurt Weill (section)

==Death==
Weill suffered a heart attack shortly after his 50th birthday and died on April 3, 1950, in New York City.<ref name="Mercado" /> He was buried in Mount Repose Cemetery in [[Haverstraw, New York]]. The text and music on his gravestone come from the song "A Bird of Passage" from ''[[Lost in the Stars]]'', itself adapted from a quotation from the [[Venerable Bede]]:<ref>''Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum'' (History of the English Church and People) Book 2, Ch. 13</ref>

<poem style="margin-left: 1.67em;">This is the life of men on earth:
Out of darkness we come at birth
Into a lamplit room, and then –
Go forward into dark again.
:(lyric: [[Maxwell Anderson]])</poem>

An excerpt from Maxwell Anderson's eulogy for Weill read:
:I wish, of course, that he had been lucky enough to have had a little more time for his work. I could wish the times in which he lived had been less troubled. But these things were as they were – and Kurt managed to make thousands of beautiful things during the short and troubled time he had ...<ref name="cjschuler.net" />