Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday is a 1938 musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson (book and lyrics), based loosely on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York about life in 17th-century New Netherland (old New York). The musical numbers include "September Song", now considered a pop standard. The musical is set in 1647 Manhattan, at the time of the arrival of Peter Stuyvesant, the new Director-General of New Netherland. The local politician Tienhoven is selling brandy and firearms to the Indians, and his prospective son-in-law Brom Broeck is aware of his political corruption.