I had the great pleasure and honor this week(and next week) to speak with the author of the new book Time's Echo Jeremy Eichler. The book chronicles four composers and their varied reactions to World War II and the Holocaust, including Schoenberg, Strauss, Shostakovich, and Britten. This week we talked about the historical symbiosis between Germans and German Jews, the concept of Bildung, a central idea in German culture throughout the 19th and early 20th century, Mendelssohn's role in creating a sense of "German" music, Schoenberg's remarkable prescience about what lay in the future after the Nazis took power in Germany, his remarkable Survivor from Warsaw, the first major musical memorial to the Holocaust, and the almost hard to believe it's so wild story of the premiere of the piece. This is truly one of my favorite books about classical music that I've ever read, so I highly recommend picking it up. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did!
The Music of Film Composers
Janacek Sinfonietta
The Degenerates: Music Suppressed By The Nazis
David Krauss, Principal Trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Beethoven Op. 18 String Quartets, Part 2
Beethoven Op. 18 String Quartets, Part 1
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1
10 Pieces You've (Probably) Never Heard, But Need to Listen To!
Ives, "Three Places in New England"
Louise Farrenc Symphony No. 3
Saint-Saens, The Carnival Of The Animals
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford
The Life and Music of George Gershwin
Haydn Symphony No. 94, "Surprise"
Derrick Skye: "Prisms, Cycles, and Leaps" w/ Derrick Skye
The Music of Olivier Messiaen
Dvorak Symphony No. 8
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, "Italian"
Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor (+Schoenberg!)
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