Volume 27, Number 2

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

Volume 27, Number 1

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