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