Volume 27, Number 2

Note from the Editor | 3 |
Letters | 3 |
TRIBUTE TO DAVID DREW |
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David Drew: An Obituary ALEXANDER GOEHR |
4 |
Letter from Drew to Lenya, 1956 | 5 |
Struggling for Supremacy: The Libretto of Mahagonny DAVID DREW |
6 |
Letter from Drew to Lys Symonette, 1970 | 9 |
David Drew: Für Weill! KIM H. KOWALKE |
10 |
RECORDING REVIEWS | |
Street Scene (rec. 1949) on Naxos JOHN MAUCERI |
12 |
The Threepenny Opera (rec. 1976) on Sony FOSTER HIRSCH |
13 |
BOOK REVIEW | |
The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations by Steven Suskin MARK N. GRANT |
14 |
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
Johnny Johnson, Lost in the Stars, Die Dreigroschenoper in London PATRICK O’CONNOR |
16 |
Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden at Ravinia Festival, Chicago JOHN VON RHEIN |
18 |
Die sieben Todsünden in Cincinnati bruce d. mcclung |
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Knickerbocker Holiday in New York HOWARD KISSEL |
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Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden in Paris WILLIAM V. MADISON |
22 |
Die Dreigroschenoper in Zurich JOACHIM LUCCHESI |
23 |
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS | 1a-8a |
Volume 27, Number 1

Note from the Editor | 3 |
Letters | 3 |
FEATURE | |
Acting Singers/Singing Actors The Lenya Competition MICHAEL LASSER |
4 |
The New Music Theater ERIC SALZMAN and THOMAS DESI |
10 |
Kurt Weill Edition “Popular Adaptations, 1927-1950” |
12 |
BOOK REVIEW | |
Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas, by Edward D. Latham HOWARD POLLACK |
13 |
RECORDING REVIEW | |
The Truth about Love on Sony PASCAL HUYNH |
14 |
VIDEO REVIEW | |
Der Kuhhandel on Phoenix Editions JOSEF HEINZELMANN |
16 |
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
Lost in the Stars in Dallas TERRY TEACHOUT |
15 |
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Budapest LARRY L. LASH |
18 |
The Firebrand of Florence in New York LARRY STEMPEL |
20 |
Knickerbocker Holiday in Toronto KIM H. KOWALKE |
22 |
Der Silbersee in Augsburg WOLFGANG RATHERT |
23 |
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS | 1a-8a |