Volume 5, Number 2

News	2
Letters: David Drew	3
Kurt Weill Festival in New York	4
Your Place, or Mine? An “un-German” Affair FELIX JACKSON	5
Say No to Mediocrity! The Crisis of Musical Interpretation KURT WEILL	6
Love Life Begins at Forty TERRY MILLER	8
The Seven Deadly Sins at Brighton JANE PRITCHARD	10
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Kurt Weill Festival in New York ALLAN KOZINN	13
Die sieben Todsünden in London PAUL MEECHAM	15
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Dortmund, Münster, and Hagen JOSEF HEINZELMANN	15
One Touch of Venus in East Haddam GARY S. FAGIN	17
Die Dreigroschenoper, Happy End, and Lost in the Stars in Princeton FRANK LEWIN	17
Die Dreigroschenoper in Berlin GUY STERN	18
Die Dreigroschenoper in Budapest MIKLÓS GALLA	18
BOOK REVIEWS
Ferruccio Busoni: Selected Letters, ed. Antony Beaumont CHRISTOPHER HAILEY	19
Caspar Neher: Brecht’s Designer by John Willett TOM BLOOM	19
The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology in five volumes (Hal Leonard) JON ALAN CONRAD	20
RECORDING REVIEW
Johnny Johnson on Polygram GLEN BECKER	21

Volume 5, Number 1

News	2
Letters: Eric Bentley	3
Is Anyone Minding the Store? KIM H. KOWALKE	4
A Podium with a View: Recollections by Maurice Abravanel MARIO R. MERCADO	6
Brecht in Hong Kong MICHAEL MORLEY	9
Recent Research	13
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Der Silbersee in London IAN KEMP	15
Die Dreigroschenoper in Paris ALAIN JOMY	16
Lady in the Dark: Childhood Dream and Circus Dream in New York DAVID LOUD	17
Knickerbocker Holiday in Jacksonville GEORGE W. HALLAN	17
Die Dreigroschenoper in Philadelphia JAMES PARSONS	18
MUSIC REVIEW
Der Protagonist (vocal score), Universal Edition Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (vocal score), Universal Edition The Ballad of Magna Carta, European American Music Four Walt Whitman Songs, European American Music STEPHEN HINTON	19
BOOK REVIEWS
An American Musician in Berlin by Michael Danzi GEOFFREY ABBOTT	20
The Musical Theatre: A Celebration by Alan Jay Lerner TERRY MILLER	21
RECORDING REVIEW
Ute Lemper singt Weill on Bayer Riki Turofsky Sings Kurt Weill on Fanfare ALAN RICH	22