Volume 27, Number 2
Fall 2009Note from the Editor | 3 |
Letters | 3 |
TRIBUTE TO DAVID DREW | |
David Drew: An Obituary ALEXANDER GOEHR | 4 |
Letter from Drew to Lenya, 1956 | 5 |
Struggling for Supremacy: The Libretto of Mahagonny DAVID DREW | 6 |
Letter from Drew to Lys Symonette, 1970 | 9 |
David Drew: Für Weill! KIM H. KOWALKE | 10 |
RECORDING REVIEWS | |
Street Scene (rec. 1949) on Naxos JOHN MAUCERI | 12 |
The Threepenny Opera (rec. 1976) on Sony FOSTER HIRSCH | 13 |
BOOK REVIEW | |
The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations by Steven Suskin MARK N. GRANT | 14 |
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | |
Johnny Johnson, Lost in the Stars, Die Dreigroschenoper in London PATRICK O’CONNOR | 16 |
Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden at Ravinia Festival, Chicago JOHN VON RHEIN | 18 |
Die sieben Todsünden in Cincinnati bruce d. mcclung | 20 |
Knickerbocker Holiday in New York HOWARD KISSEL | 21 |
Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden in Paris WILLIAM V. MADISON | 22 |
Die Dreigroschenoper in Zurich JOACHIM LUCCHESI | 23 |
TOPICAL WEILL: NEWS AND EVENTS | 1a-8a |