Volume 13, Number 2

News	2
Letters	6
Are “Weill” and “Brecht” Household Words? KERSTIN SCHWEIGER	6
FEATURE: BUILDING THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
Mahagonny and Robert Service KIM H. KOWALKE	8
Weill . . . on Mahagonny	10
Mahagonny in Letters, 1927-1946	12
ARTICLES
Songs of Healing DAVID DREW	20
MUSIC REVIEW
Israeli Folk Music, ed. Hans Nathan IRENE HESKES	22
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in London ANDREW PORTER	23
Street Scene in Freiburg NILS GROSCH	24
Threepenny Opera in Boston JOHN A. DEGEN	25
“There Once Was a Girl Named Jenny” in Rochester PETER BERGMAN	27
RECORDING REVIEW
“Testimonies of War” on Largo GLENN WATKINS	28
VIDEO REVIEW
Lenya: Ein erfundenes Leben, dir. Barry Gavin, Hessischer Rundfunk PAUL MOOR	30

Volume 13, Number 1

News	2
From the Archives: Second Autograph of String Quartet in B Minor Acquired	5
Letters: John Fuegi and Michael Feingold	6
REGARDING . . . STREET SCENE
My Collaborator: Kurt Weill LANGSTON HUGHES	7
Letter describing the end of the Broadway run	9
Weill on behalf of his “American opera”	10
Press Reaction to 1955 and 1995 productions in Germany	12
American Opera Today: A Composer’s View ANTHONY DAVIS in Conversation	14
BOOK REVIEWS
Der junge Kurt Weill und seine Oper “Der Protagonist” by Gunther Diehl SUSANNE SHIGIHARA	18
Bertolt Brecht Journals 1934-55, ed. John Willett, trans. Hugh Rorrison MICHAEL MORLEY	20
Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic, ed. Bryan Gilliam DERRICK PUFFETT	21
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Street Scene in Ludwigshafen GISELA SCHUBERT	22
Die Dreigroschenoper in Frankfurt HORST KOEGLER	23
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Dusseldorf and Chemnitz KRAFT-EIKE WREDE	24
Die Dreigroschenoper in London PATRICK O’CONNOR	26
One Touch of Venus in Malmö, Sweden TONY KAPLAN	27
All-Weill Concert in Frankfurt GUNTHER DIEHL	28
RECORDING REVIEW
Die sieben Todsünden on Deutsche Grammophon and Teldec DANIEL ALBRIGHT	29