The Lotte Lenya CompetitionThe Lotte Lenya Competition recognizes talented singer/actors of all nationalities, ages 19-32, who are dramatically and musically convincing in repertoire ranging from contemporary Broadway scores to opera/operetta, including the works of Kurt Weill.
The Kurt Weill EditionThe Foundation is in the process of publishing Kurt Weill's musical legacy in newly-engraved full scores that uphold the highest scholarly and critical standards.
Grants Programs & Collaborative InitiativesThe Foundation's Grant Program gives financial support to individuals and not-for-profit organizations for projects related to Weill, Lenya, or Marc Blitzstein.
The Lotte Lenya Competition SongbookThrough the Lotte Lenya Competition Songbook Series, the Foundation awards and showcases new theater songs that have not been widely disseminated and that can serve Lenya Competition contestants seeking new pieces for their programs.
Fellowships, Artist Sponsorships, Mentorships, & PrizesThe Foundation administers a collection of programs designed to nurture the careers of emerging performers, conductors, and stage directors, along with prizes for important new scholarly work.
The Weill-Lenya Research CenterThe Weill-Lenya Research Center is the principal international repository for research materials related to Weill's and Lenya's lives and careers.
Volume 11, Number 2 News 2 ARTICLES Three Valued Collaborators: Maurice Abravanel, Hans Heinsheimer, Agnes de Mille 5 Zar and Protagonist in Santa Fe 8 From the Archives: Recent Acquisitions (since Spring 1991) 10 BOOK REVIEWS A Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill-Studien, ed. Kim H. Kowalke and Horst Edler GISELHER SCHUBERT 14 Kurt Weill: de Berlin à Broadway, ed. Pascal Huynh EVELYN PIEILLER 15 Dachau Song: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper by Paul Cummins Hermann Scherchen: Werke und Briefe (Band I, Schriften 1), ed. Joachim Lucchesi CHRISTOPHER HAILEY 16 PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Street Scene in Munich HORST KOEGLER 17 Mahagonny Songspiel and Knickerbocker Holiday in London PATRICK O’CONNOR 18 Cry, the Beloved Country in Chicago JAMES ZYCHOWICZ 19 Der Jasager in New York STEPHEN HINTON 20 Symphony No. 1 in Philadelphia OFER BEN-AMOTS 20 RECORDING REVIEWS Lost in the Stars on MusicMasters JON ALAN CONRAD 21 Vom Tod im Wald, Concerto for Violin and Wind Instruments, Das Berliner Requiem on Harmonia Mundi France PASCAL HUYNH 21 Ute Lemper, Patti LuPone, and Barbra Streisand MICHAEL MORLEY 22 Volume 11, Number 1 News 2 Letters 5 ARTICLES A New Beginning in Dessau JÜRGEN SCHEBERA 6 Issues in the German Reception of Weill STEPHEN HINTON 7 FEATURE: Protagonist and Zar at Santa Fe Director’s Notes JONATHAN EATON 10 Costume Designs ROBERT PERDZIOLA 10 Der Protagonist: To Be or Not to Be with Der Zar GUNTHER DIEHL 12 BOOK REVIEWS The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie ANDREW PORTER 16 Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany by Michael Kater SUSAN C. COOK 17 Gustav Brecher und die Leipziger Oper 1923-1933 by Jürgen Schebera CHRISTOPHER HAILEY 18 PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Britten/Weill Festival in Aldeburgh PATRICK O’CONNOR 19 The Seven Deadly Sins at the Los Angeles Philharmonic PAUL YOUNG 20 Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Karlsruhe ANDREAS HAUFF 20 Knickerbocker Holiday in Evanston, IL BRUCE D. MCCLUNG 21 The Seven Deadly Sins at the Utah Symphony BRYCE RYTTING 22 “Nannas Lied” by the San Francisco Ballet PAUL MOOR 24 RECORDING REVIEWS Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 on Philips JAMES M. KELLER 24 “Ofrahs Lieder” and other Songs on Koch DAVID HAMILTON 25 Sieben Stücke aus der Dreigroschenoper, arr. Stefan Frenkel, on Gallo PASCAL HUYNH 26