Volume 4, Number 2

| News | 1 |
| Letters: Mark Bingham | 3 |
| How Was Weill’s Success Achieved? DAVID DREW | 4 |
| The Alchemy of Music KURT WEILL | 7 |
| From the Archives | 10 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill, ed. Kim H. Kowalke RICHARD TARUSKIN | 12 |
| RECORDING REVIEWS | |
| Symphonies no. 1 and 2 on London GUNTHER DIEHL | 15 |
| Stratas Sings Weill on Nonesuch LEIGHTON KERNER | 16 |
| Recordings by Dagmar Krause, The Happy End, and King Kurt JAMES LYNCH | 17 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| Die Dreigroschenoper in Ashland, Oregon ADRIAN CORLEONIS | 17 |
| Johnny Johnson in Los Angeles ALAN RICH | 18 |
| Lost in the Stars in New Haven and New York ERIK HAAGENSEN | 19 |
Volume 4, Number 1

| News | 1 |
| Weill in Great Britain ALAN RICH | 3 |
| Kurt Weill’s Early Recordings, 1928-1933 JÜRGEN SCHEBERA | 6 |
| The Firebrand of Florence: A Musical Inventory JOSEPH SMITH | 10 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Gestus und Verfremdung: Studien zum Musiktheater bei Strawinsky und Brecht/Weill by Jürgen Engelhardt MICHAEL MORLEY | 12 |
| Lasst euch nicht verführen: Brecht und die Musik by Albrecht Dümling RONALD SHULL | 13 |
| Writings of German Composers, ed. Hermand and Steakley MICHAEL NOTT | 15 |
| The Brecht Memoir by Eric Bentley PAUL MOOR | 15 |
| PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
| Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Dessau CHRISTOPHER HAILEY | 16 |
| Mahagonny Songspiel in New York STEPHEN HINTON | 17 |
| Berlin to Broadway in Coconut Grove DAVID FARNETH | 17 |
| Die sieben Todsünden in Brooklyn PAUL M. YOUNG and SUSAN ALLENE MANNING | 18 |
| RECORDING REVIEW | |
| Lost in the Stars on A&M Records WILLIAM MADISON | 20 |