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Books published pre-1990

• Kurt Weill: A Handbook (Faber & Faber, 1987)
• Über Kurt Weill (Suhrkamp, 1975)
• Kurt Weill: Ausgewählte Schriften (Suhrkamp, 1975)
  
  
• The Decca Book of Ballet (Frederick Muller, 1958), edited by David Drew, with a Foreword by Ernest Ansermet and 'A Short History of Ballet' by Arnold L Haskell.

  A musically oriented reference book (572 pp) with entries arranged by composer. The first main section deals with ballets and dance works choreographed to newly-composed scores, the second with those using existing concert works. Scenarios are given in full and in their musical context. Several composers contribute entries on their own works; most of the other contributors are music critics or musicologists. (See also Weill)

Books in progress

Current projects (as of December 2003) are listed below in the intended order of publication. The texts for the first two titles are 70% complete in draft, and for the fourth, as much as 90%.

1. Weill at 25

Replacing Vol.1 of the author's near-complete three-volume 'Life and Works' (discontinued in 1976), this entirely new study of Weill considers the central significance of the composer's 25th year within his life-span of half a century.

2. The Long March from Koepenick

Impostures, Defections, and Civil Courage in German Music - from the Rise of Hitler to the Present Day.

3. Kurt Weill and the Cities of the Plain (Vol I)

4. The Tune of the Time

Essays on music and the musical press in Europe and America, 1917-2004.

5. Towards the Unknown Composer (working title)

Material Copyright © 2002 David Drew.