Newsletter - The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

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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

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