Volume 16, Number 2

LENYA CENTENARY
In Praise of a Career	3
I Remember Lenya	4
Listening to Lenya: A Review Essay on Lenya, the 11-CD set of her complete recordings (Bear Family BFCD 16019 KL) DAVID HAMILTON	8
BOOK REVIEWS
Excerpts from Lenya the Legend, ed. David Farneth	13
Emigrierte Komponisten in der Medienlandschaft des Exils 1933-1945, eds. Nils Grosch, Joachim Lucchesi, and Jürgen Schebera WOLFGANG JACOBSEN	14
Kurt Weill work entries in Pipers Enzyklopädie des Musiktheaters NILS GROSCH	15
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Propheten in London ANDREW PORTER	16
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Salzburg RODNEY MILNES	18
“Go for Kurt Weill” in Salzburg NILS GROSCH	19
Mahagonny Songspiel in Karlsruhe ANDREAS HAUFF	20
RECORDING REVIEWS
Symphony no. 2/Violin Concerto/Mahagonny Suite (Berlin Philharmonic, cond. Mariss Jansons, Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin) on EMI MICHAEL VON DER LINN	21
Lady in the Dark (Original London Cast) on Jay/TER LARRY L. LASH	22
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS	1a-8a

Volume 16, Number 1

DIE BÜRGSCHAFT: THEN AND NOW
Die Bürgschaft in 1998: A Passion Play for the Twentieth Century JONATHAN EATON	4
Parable JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER	6
Synopsis (from New Grove Dictionary of Opera) STEPHEN HINTON	6
Excerpt from Portrait of a Quiet Man FELIX JACKSON	7
Kurt Weill: Concerning Die Bürgschaft translated by STEPHEN HINTON	8
A Review of Die Bürgschaft in Bielefeld HORST KOEGLER	10
ARTICLE
A Question of Baloney: The Search for a Lost Translation of The Seven Deadly Sins ADAM POLLOCK	12
BOOK REVIEWS
Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory: Marxism, Modernity, and the Threepenny Lawsuit by Stephen Giles MICHAEL MORLEY	14
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim by Geoffrey Block FOSTER HIRSCH	15
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
The Threepenny Opera in Philadelphia SUSAN GOULD	16
Der Silbersee in Freiburg ELISABETH SCHWIND	17
RECORDING REVIEWS
Johnny Johnson (Boston Camerata, cond. Joel Cohen) on Erato JOHN ANDREW JOHNSON	18
Bertolt Brecht: Werke, eine Auswahl on BMG ERIC BENTLEY	20
String Quartet no. 1, op. 8 (Brodsky Quartet) on Silva WOLFGANG RATHERT	22
Der neue Orpheus/Violin Concerto (Carole Farley, soprano, Michael Guttman, violin; cond. José Serebrier) on ASV SCOTT WARFIELD	23
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