Volume 20, Number 2

| Note from the Editor | 3 |
| Current Research | 3 |
| ARTICLES | |
| Putting Kurt Weill in His Historical Place: The New Grove Articles TAMARA LEVITZ | 4 |
| Street Scene Pioneers Interviews with JULIUS RUDEL, HORST KOEGLER | 10 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Kurt Weill on Stage by Foster Hirsch MICHAEL FEINGOLD | 13 |
| Somewhere for Me by Meryle Secrest The Richard Rodgers Reader, ed. Geoffrey Block GISELA SCHUBERT | 14 |
| Jazz and the Germans, ed. Michael J. Budds J. BRADFORD ROBINSON | 15 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| Street Scene in Aspen THOMAS L. RIIS | 16 |
| Street Scene in Aachen HORST KOEGLER | 17 |
| The Threepenny Opera in Stratford MAARTEN VAN DIJK | 18 |
| MUSIC REVIEW | |
| The Firebrand of Florence, ed. Joel Galand RICHARD CRAWFORD | 19 |
| RECORDING REVIEWS | |
| This Is New (Dee Dee Bridgewater) on Verve LARRY L. LASH | 21 |
| Zaubernacht (Ensemble Contrasts; cond. C. Antunes) on Capriccio EDWARD HARSH | 22 |
| String Quartets (Leipziger Streichquartett) on MDG JOACHIM BRÜGGE | 23 |
| TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS | 1a-8a |
Volume 20, Number 1

| Note from the Editor | 3 |
| In Memoriam: Ronald Freed KIM H. KOWALKE | 3 |
| ARTICLES | |
| From Geopathology to Redemption: A Flag Is Born on the Broadway Stage EDNA NAHSHON | 5 |
| Approaching the Music for A Flag Is Born CHRISTIAN KUHNT | 8 |
| News from the Archive | 10 |
| Retracing The Eternal Road: A Pogrom Play by Aron Ackermann Unearthed ELMAR JUCHEM | 10 |
| Kurt Weill: Making Music Theater | 12 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Die Seeräuberin: Ein Lotte-Lenya-Roman by Pamela Katz MELISSA MÜLLER | 13 |
| Brecht und seine Komponisten, ed. Albrecht Riethmüller FRED RITZEL | 14 |
| Kurt Weill und das Judentum by Christian Kuhnt TAMARA LEVITZ | 15 |
| FILM REVIEW | |
| Kurt Weill: Ein Film von Sven Düfer MICHAEL MORLEY | 16 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| Die sieben Todsünden in Paris PASCAL HUYNH | 18 |
| One Touch of Venus in Berlin RÜDIGER BERING | 19 |
| Die Bürgschaft and Johnny Johnson in Dessau GUIDO HELDT | 20 |
| Lenya in Dessau PAUL MOOR | 22 |
| RECORDING REVIEW | |
| Der Protagonist (Deutsches Symphonieorchester; cond. J. Mauceri) on Capriccio BRYAN GILLIAM | 23 |
| TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS | 1a-8a |