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Volume 13, Number 2

News2
Letters6
Are “Weill” and “Brecht” Household Words?
KERSTIN SCHWEIGER
6
FEATURE: BUILDING THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
Mahagonny and Robert Service
KIM H. KOWALKE
8
Weill . . . on Mahagonny10
Mahagonny in Letters, 1927-194612
ARTICLES
Songs of Healing
DAVID DREW
20
MUSIC REVIEW
Israeli Folk Music, ed. Hans Nathan
IRENE HESKES
22
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in London
ANDREW PORTER
23
Street Scene in Freiburg
NILS GROSCH
24
Threepenny Opera in Boston
JOHN A. DEGEN
25
“There Once Was a Girl Named Jenny” in Rochester
PETER BERGMAN
27
RECORDING REVIEW
“Testimonies of War” on Largo
GLENN WATKINS
28
VIDEO REVIEW
Lenya: Ein erfundenes Leben, dir. Barry Gavin, Hessischer Rundfunk
PAUL MOOR
30

Volume 13, Number 1

News2
From the Archives: Second Autograph of String Quartet in B Minor Acquired5
Letters: John Fuegi and Michael Feingold6
REGARDING . . . STREET SCENE
My Collaborator: Kurt Weill
LANGSTON HUGHES
7
Letter describing the end of the Broadway run9
Weill on behalf of his “American opera”10
Press Reaction to 1955 and 1995 productions in Germany12
American Opera Today: A Composer’s View
ANTHONY DAVIS in Conversation
14
BOOK REVIEWS
Der junge Kurt Weill und seine Oper “Der Protagonist” by Gunther Diehl
SUSANNE SHIGIHARA
18
Bertolt Brecht Journals 1934-55, ed. John Willett, trans. Hugh Rorrison
MICHAEL MORLEY
20
Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic, ed. Bryan Gilliam
DERRICK PUFFETT
21
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Street Scene in Ludwigshafen
GISELA SCHUBERT
22
Die Dreigroschenoper in Frankfurt
HORST KOEGLER
23
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Dusseldorf and Chemnitz
KRAFT-EIKE WREDE
24
Die Dreigroschenoper in London
PATRICK O’CONNOR
26
One Touch of Venus in Malmö, Sweden
TONY KAPLAN
27
All-Weill Concert in Frankfurt
GUNTHER DIEHL
28
RECORDING REVIEW
Die sieben Todsünden on Deutsche Grammophon and Teldec
DANIEL ALBRIGHT
29

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