Volume 8, Number 2

News	2
Letters	3
FEATURE: American Musical Theater Festival Stages Love Life
A Musical View BRUCE MCCLUNG	6
A Dramaturgical View CHARLIE WILLARD	7
ARTICLES
“Lucy’s Aria” in Die Dreigroschenoper: A Problem of Environment CHRISTOPHER SHAW	10
Kurt Weill in Israel	12
BOOK REVIEWS
Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera, ed. Stephen Hinton RONALD SPIERS	15
Kurt Weill: Eine Biographie in Texten, Bildern und Dokumenten by Jürgen Schebera CHRISTOPHER HAILEY	16
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Hamburg HEINRICH W. SCHWAB	17
Die sieben Todsünden in Dusseldorf JÜRGEN SCHEBERA	17
Street Scene in Bielefeld; Der Jasager and Down in the Valley in Dortmund ANDREAS HAUFF	18
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Maggio Musicale, Florence PATRICK O’CONNOR	20
Kurt Weill Evening at the Almeida Festival, London NICHOLAS KENYON	21
Der Silbersee in San Francisco MICHAEL COLBY	22
Happy End in Lisbon ALAIN JOMY	22
Street Scene in New York WILLIAM THORNHILL	23
Concert Works at Occidental College, Los Angeles ROBERT SHACKLETT	24
VIDEO REVIEW
Mack the Knife by 21st Century Film Corporation STEPHEN HINTON	24
RECORDING REVIEWS
Happy End, Der Silbersee, Der Lindberghflug, The Ballad of Magna Carta on Capriccio LARRY L. LASH	25

Volume 8, Number 1

News	2
Letters	5
FEATURE: Kurt Weill Festival in North Rhine Westphalia	7
(Re-)Unification? CHRISTOPHER HAILEY	9
Der Kuhhandel in concert performance Review by MICHAEL MORLEY	11
Choral Concert by Niederrheinische Chorgemeinschaft Review by JÜRGEN THYM	12
Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Concert review by GUNTHER DIEHL	13
Exhibitions	14
Press Clippings	15
BOOK REVIEWS
Studien zur Berliner Musikgeschichte, ed. Traude Ebert-Obermeier TAMARA LEVITZ	18
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Street Scene in London PATRICK O’CONNOR	20
Marie Galante, Mahagonny Songspiel, Happy End by Sinfonia San Francisco PAUL MOOR	21
Lady in the Dark in Evanston BRUCE D. MCCLUNG	22
Seven Deadly Sins in New York ANTHONY BARONE	23
Cello Sonata, Frauentanz, “Vom Tod im Wald” in New York BRIAN DRAKE	24
RECORDING REVIEWS
Die Dreigroschenoper on Decca/London NICHOLAS DEUTSCH	25