The remains of Marc Blitzstein, famous Jewish-American composer, who died at Martinique this weekend, will be cremated here tomorrow without services, members of the Blitzstein family announced today. Mr. Blitzstein, 58, had been in the West Indies completing an opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York. He was apparently beaten to death by robbers at Martinique.
Among Mr. Blitzstein’s better known works are “The Cradle Will Rock,” “No for an Answer,” “Regina,” and his adaptation of “The Threepenny Opera,” which ran off-Broadway in New York for six years. His father, the late Samuel Blitzstein, was a banker here well known among many Jewish merchants.
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