Volume 36, Number 2

Ed Harsh Rejoins Staff	2
Editor’s Note	3
Lied vom blinden Mädchen Now Available	3
Two More World Premieres	3
And Another . . .	3
Die sieben Todsünden–New Scoring for Chamber Ensemble	3
FEATURES
The Lady Reappears TED SPERLING, VICTORIA CLARK, CHRISTOPHER HART	4
Walt Whitman and Weill’s America	7
Taking the Initiative SCOTT SCHOONOVER, TAZEWELL THOMPSON, CRAIG KIER, ED HARSH	10
SCORE REVIEWS
Lady in the Dark (Kurt Weill Edition) MARK CLAGUE	12
BOOK REVIEWS
The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner ed. Dominic McHugh and Amy Asch JOEL GALAND	13
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Hamburger Symphoniker MONIKA NELLISSEN, JEFFREY KAHANE	14
Der Silbersee Theater Pforzheim JULIAN CASKEL	15
Lenya Story Renaissance-Theater Berlin UTE BÜSING	16
Regina Opera Theatre of St. Louis JOHN MAUCERI	17
RECORDING REVIEWS
The Cradle Will Rock MARK N. GRANT	18
NEWS
Wide World of Weill	19
Blitzstein News	22
Lenya Winners on Stage	23

Volume 36, Number 1

“Lied vom blinden Mädchen” (Song of the Blind Girl): Coverage	2
Editor’s Note	3
Letters to the Editor	3
“Lied vom blinden Mädchen”: Publications	3
FEATURES
Kurt Weill, El Paso, and the National Mood JOSEPH HOROWITZ, PETER BOGDANOFF, AND FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT UTEP	4
Behind the Scenes: Summer and Fall Performances	7
Envisioning Weimar: “Babylon Berlin” STEPHEN HINTON, GENE PRITSKER	10
100 Years Ago—	11
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Love Life Theater Freiburg DAVID SAVRAN	13
Street Scene Teatro Real, Madrid	14
Zaubernacht Jody Oberfelder Projects and Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra PIA CATTON	16
The Threepenny Opera Boston Lyric Opera LLOYD SCHWARTZ	17
NEWS
Wide World of Weill	18
Blitzstein News	21
Twentieth Anniversary of the Lotte Lenya Competition	22
Twenty Years of LLC Winners: Where Are They Now?	23
2018 Grant Recipients	23