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Note from the Editor	3
FEATURE
Commemoration or Exploitation? A New Recording Appropriates the Holocaust AMY LYNN WLODARSKI	4
News from the Archive	10
Remembering Alma Jo Révy-Staub (1909-2008)	12
BOOK REVIEW
Brecht at the Opera, by Joy H. Calico Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, translated by Steve Giles MICHAEL MORLEY	13
VIDEO REVIEW
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny on EuroArts ANDREW PORTER	15
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Street Scene in Freiberg/Döbeln ANDREAS HAUFF	16
Marie Galante in New York ERIC SALZMAN	17
Happy End in Hamburg CHRISTIAN KUHNT	20
Johnny Johnson in Celle FLORIAN HOBERT	21
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Edinburgh LUTHER WADE	22
Street Scene in Watford/Buxton/London RODNEY MILNES	23
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS	1a-8a

Note from the Editor	3
FEATURE: Lost in the Stars
The Story of the Song	4
Genesis, First Production, and Tour	6
The Eleanor Roosevelt Album	10
Later Life	12
BOOK REVIEWS
Handbuch des Musicals: Die wichtigsten Titel von A bis Z, by Thomas Siedhoff GISELA MARIA SCHUBERT	13
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross JOY H. CALICO	14
Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts, by Joseph Horowitz JACK SULLIVAN	15
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Der Silbersee in Berlin TOBIAS ROBERT KLEIN	17
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Mainz ROBERT GONZALES	18
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Essen ROBERT GONZALES	19
Lady in the Dark in Oullins WILLIAM V. MADISON	20
Lost in the Stars in Pittsburgh DEANE ROOT	22
Reader Survey	23
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS	1a-8a