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 |