Kurt Weill Newsletter Contents vol. 27 Print E-mail

Volume 27, no. 2 (Fall 2009)
Volume 27, no. 1 (Spring 2009)

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Volume 27,
Number 2
Fall 2009

Note from the Editor 3
Letters 3
TRIBUTE TO DAVID DREW
David Drew: An Obituary
ALEXANDER GOEHR		 4
Letter from Drew to Lenya, 1956
 5
Struggling for Supremacy: The Libretto of Mahagonny
DAVID DREW		 6
Letter from Drew to Lys Symonette, 1970 9
David Drew: Für Weill!
KIM H. KOWALKE		 10
RECORDING REVIEWS
Street Scene (rec. 1949) on Naxos
JOHN MAUCERI		 12
The Threepenny Opera (rec. 1976) on Sony
FOSTER HIRSCH		 13
BOOK REVIEW
The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations by Steven Suskin
MARK N. GRANT		 14
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Johnny Johnson, Lost in the Stars, Die Dreigroschenoper in London
PATRICK O'CONNOR		 16
Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden at Ravinia Festival, Chicago
JOHN VON RHEIN		 18
Die sieben Todsünden in Cincinnati
bruce d. mcclung		 20
Knickerbocker Holiday in New York
HOWARD KISSEL		 21
Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden in Paris
WILLIAM V. MADISON		 22
Die Dreigroschenoper in Zurich
JOACHIM LUCCHESI		 23
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS 1a-8a

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Volume 27,
Number 1
Spring 2009

Note from the Editor 3
Letters 3
FEATURE
Acting Singers/Singing Actors
The Lenya Competition
MICHAEL LASSER		 4
The New Music Theater
ERIC SALZMAN and THOMAS DESI		 10
Kurt Weill Edition
"Popular Adaptations, 1927-1950"		 12
BOOK REVIEW
Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas, by Edward D. Latham
HOWARD POLLACK		 13
RECORDING REVIEW
The Truth about Love on Sony
PASCAL HUYNH		 14
VIDEO REVIEW
Der Kuhhandel on Phoenix Editions
JOSEF HEINZELMANN		 16
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Lost in the Stars in Dallas
TERRY TEACHOUT		 15
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Budapest
LARRY L. LASH		 18
The Firebrand of Florence in New York
LARRY STEMPEL		 20
Knickerbocker Holiday in Toronto
KIM H. KOWALKE		 22
Der Silbersee in Augsburg
WOLFGANG RATHERT		 23
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS 1a-8a