On the occasion of the 35th annual Oregon Festival of American Music’s celebration of the international cross-currents which helped shape Americn popular music, Siri Vik and colleagues revisit her 2019 faithfully-researched and staged re-creation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s final collaboration, The Seven Deadly Sins as premiered by George Balanchine’s short-lived dance company, Les Ballets in June 1933 in Paris as Les sept péchés capitaux. The ballet chanté is prefaced by a selection of songs from Mahagonny-Songspiel (1927), The Threepenny Opera (1928), Happy End (1929), and Rise And Fall of the City of Mahogonny (1930).