Volume 2, Number 2

News	1
President’s Column KIM KOWALKE	2
Around the World: German Democratic Republic JÜRGEN SCHEBERA	3
Life’s “Progress”: Love Life Revisited CHARLES WILLARD	4
Nor in the Singer Let the Song Be Lost MICHAEL MORLEY	6
Collaborators Stage a Scene Aimed at Explaining Their Musical Play KURT WEILL and ALAN JAY LERNER	8
Weill’s Classmates Share their Memories JÜRGEN SCHEBERA	9
“Sprechen Sie Brecht” or “Singen Sie Weill” LYS SYMONETTE	11
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Munich JOSEF HEINZELMANN and GUY STERN	12
Mahagonny Songspiel in London PAUL MEECHAM	12
Happy End in Washington, D.C. DAVID FARNETH	13
Milva canta Brecht in Los Angeles ALAN RICH	13
Die Dreigroschenoper in Moscow based on a report by HAROLD C. SCHONBERG	14
Die Dreigroschenoper in Philadelphia WILLIAM MADISON	14
BOOK REVIEWS
Brechts Dramen: Neue Interpretationen, ed. Walter Hinderer Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches by John Willett RONALD SHULL	15
Das grosse Brecht-Liederbuch, ed. Fritz Hennenberg RONALD SHULL	16
Oper: Aspekte der Gattung by Leo Karl Gerhartz Zur Problematik der Opernstruktur: Das künstlerische System und seine Krisis im 20. Jahrhundert by Erik Fischer STEPHEN HINTON	16
RECORDING REVIEWS
String Quartets on Nonesuch RUTH DREIER	17
Lady in the Dark on AEI DEENA ROSENBERG	18
Tryout and Lyrics by Lerner on DRG MILES KREUGER	18

Volume 2, Number 1

News	1
The Motto of Mahagonny: “Du Darfst!“ KIM KOWALKE	3
Weill Conference at Yale	3
The First Scandal of Lenya’s Career LYS SYMONETTE	7
From the Archive: The Eve Hammerschmidt Collection DAVID FARNETH	8
Kurt Weill and New Music Theatre ERIC SALZMAN	8
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in New York ALLEN KOZINN	10
Lenya: Life to Legend in Los Angeles ALAN RICH	11
Mahagonny in Paris DAVID FARNETH	11
Die Dreigroschenoper in Minneapolis KIM KOWALKE	12
BOOK REVIEWS
Kurt Weill: An Illustrated Biography by Douglas Jarman Kurt Weill: Leben und Werk mit Texten and Materialen von und über Kurt Weill by Jürgen Schebera CHRISTOPHER HAILEY	13
Brecht: A Biography by Ronald Hayman JOHN FUEGI	14
Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times, vol. I by Peter Heyworth SUSAN COOK	15
RECORDING REVIEWS
Die sieben Todsünden on Angel Die Dreigroschenoper on Columbia Berlin Theater Songs on Columbia Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny on Columbia DAVID HAMILTON	16
Recordare on Nonesuch THOMAS SOMMERVILLE	17