Volume 41, Number 2

Mid-Year Grant Recipients	2
Editor’s Note	3
Taking Berlin by Storm	3
FEATURES
Out from the Shadows Elisabeth Hauptmann, the Spark that Ignited The Threepenny Opera	4
À la Française An Extraordinary Team Tackles The Threepenny Opera	11
RECORDING REVIEWS
Propheten, Four Walt Whitman Songs Capriccio DAVID FARNETH	14
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Dutch National Opera PIETER BERGÉ	15
BOOK REVIEWS
Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933 by Emily MacGregor TIM CARTER	16
Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study in Influence by Rebecca Schmid MARIA CRISTINA FAVA	17
NEWS
Wide World of Weill	18
Weill, Blitzstein, and Foundation News	19
In Memoriam: Tony Bennett, Robert Brustein	22
Lenya Competition Prizewinners Stay in the Spotlight	23

Volume 41, Number 1

Happy 85th Birthday, Teresa Stratas! KIM H. KOWALKE	2
Editor’s Note	3
Tom Sawyer Takes the Stage	3
2023 Grant Recipients	3
FEATURES
A Voice for the Oppressed: An Interview with Maxime Pascal	4
What the Music Wants HK GRUBER	7
Trending: #LizaElliott DAVID SAVRAN	9
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Die Dreigroschenoper Volksoper Wien REBECCA SCHMID	13
One Touch of Venus Oper Graz NILS GROSCH	14
NEWS
Wide World of Weill	15
Weill, Lenya, and Foundation News	16
In Memoriam: Michael Feingold, Ned Rorem, Martha Schlamme	18
LENYA@25: THE CELEBRATION
25 Years and Counting DAVID FARNETH	19
Competition Conversations ERIK LIBERMAN	22
Hot Takes MICHAEL LASSER	23