Volume 31, Number 2

| Editors’ note | 3 |
| In the Wings | 3 |
| FEATURES | |
| New Light on Weill: The David Drew Collection | 4 |
| Kurt Weill on Broadway PETER FILICHIA | 13 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| The Cradle Will Rock (Blitzstein) Encores! Off-Center JOHN MAUCERI | 15 |
| The Firebrand of Florence Staatsoperette Dresden GISELA MARIA SCHUBERT | 16 |
| Mahagonny Songspiel/Baden-Baden 1927 Gotham Chamber Opera MICHAEL FEINGOLD | 17 |
| RECORDING REVIEWS | |
| Zaubernacht JAMES HOLMES | 18 |
| Railroads on Parade ERICA SCHEINBERG | 19 |
| The Threepenny Opera from Leonard Bernstein: Historical Recordings, 1941-1961 HOWARD POLLACK | 20 |
| NEWS | |
| Lotte Lenya Competition News | 21 |
| Foundation News | 22 |
Volume 31, Number 1

| Editors’ note | 3 |
| In the Wings | 3 |
| FEATURES | |
| The Lotte Lenya Competition at Fifteen | 4 |
| Reflections on Judging the Lenya Competition TED CHAPIN | 8 |
| A New Road: Creating Die Verheißung ED HARSH | 10 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| Die Verheißung Anhaltisches Theater Dessau GISELHER SCHUBERT | 12 |
| “New York, New York” (Opening Concert) Kurt Weill Fest Dessau GISELA MARIA SCHUBERT | 13 |
| Down in the Valley and Five Songs from Huckleberry Finn Kurt Weill Fest Dessau JÜRGEN SCHEBERA | 14 |
| Der Kuhhandel Komische Oper Berlin DAVID SAVRAN | 15 |
| Der neue Orpheus, Symphony No. 2, Broadway Songs BBC Concert Orchestra RODNEY MILNES | 16 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Johnny Johnson Kurt Weill Edition, edited by Tim Carter GEOFFREY BLOCK | 17 |
| Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya by Ethan Mordden FOSTER HIRSCH | 19 |
| NEWS | |
| Foundation News | 20 |
| The 2013 Lotte Lenya Competition | 22 |
| Recent Recordings | 23 |