Kurt Weill Newsletter Reader Survey

With the Kurt Weill Newsletter in its 25th year, we are asking for your help in telling us what you like and don’t like about the design, content, and purpose of our publication. No matter whether you’ve been reading the Newsletter for years or have just read it for the first time—we invite all of you to make your opinons known. Your answers and comments will help us improve the Newsletter, and we will gladly consider all suggestions as we prepare for its second quarter century.

General Questions

1. How do you normally encounter the Newsletter?
 subscription to print edition
 in a library
 online
 other 

2. Do you read the Newsletter regularly?
 no
 yes
(if yes, for how many years:)  

3. In general, is the number of illustrations
too great?
too small?
about right?

4. Which section do you most enjoy?
features (front section)
Topical Weill (center section)
reviews (back section)

5. Which section do you find most useful?
features (front section)
Topical Weill (middle section)
reviews (back section)

6. In general, are the feature articles
too scholarly?
not scholarly enough?
about right?

7. What type of review do you most enjoy reading?
book
performance
recording

8. The Newsletter has been printed either in black-and-white or with one additional color (two-color process) throughout its history. Would you prefer
black-and-white?
two-color process?
four-color process (full color)?

9. What Weill-related topics would you like to see covered in the Newsletter? Or should the Newsletter cover topics not related to Weill?



Rankings

In this section, please rate each aspect from A (best) to F (worst):

Please rate the overall design of the Newsletter 

in terms of ease of reading

in terms of visual appeal


Please rate the general quality of writing in features section of the Newsletter features:

in terms of conveying information or opinion clearly

in terms of ease of reading

in terms of style


Final Questions

If you could change one aspect of the Newsletter, what would it be and how would you change it?


Please add any comments and suggestions you may have about the Newsletter.