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Kurt Weill’s Love Life Published in First-Ever Vocal Score

Mar. 30, 2025

Given the tangled and uneven publication history of Weill's works, it isn't surprising that for three quarters of a century no complete score of the Weill-Lerner Broadway Vaudeville Love Life was ever published. In 2023, a critical edition of the full score, edited by Joel Galand, appeared as part of the Kurt Weill Edition project and subsequently received two major awards, from the Music Publishers Association of the USA and also from the American Musicological Association. Now, another first: A brand-new vocal score of the work, published by Kurt Weill Music, is available for sale. With piano reduction and instrumental cueing by John Baxindine, the score is in the final phases of printing and is available now for presale through Hal Leonard.

The new vocal score matches the critical edition of the full score and includes all of the performable music from the show. An editorial note, plot synopsis, table of musical contents, vocal ranges of performers, and cast list of the original Broadway production all precede the 381(!) pages of printed music. The timing of this new publication’s appearance aligns perfectly with the new production of Love Life which opened on March 26 in New York City Center’s Encores! series.

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