In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Erich Korngold turned to writing two works that he hoped would serve as a bridge back to his former world of concert music. The first was his Violin Concerto, which he had...
This article explores the role of memory within Schoenberg's Gedanke Manuscripts and its musical encoding in A Survivor From Warsaw, his 1947 Holocaust cantata. In the Gedanke Manuscripts human memory serves as analogy for...
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range...
In 2008, students from Dickinson College conducted dozens of interviews in South Africa and Mississippi as part of a semester-long comparative oral history project studying the movements that challenged white supremacist...
As others in this volume have already noted, the deceptively simple question - What is Jewish music? - poses crucial questions about the nature of Jewish identities, musical experiences, and investigatory methods. The problem...
John Axelrod and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, together with Nimbus Records and executive producer Michael Haas, have produced an album of three twentieth-century works, meditations upon death and mourning written by Jewish...
For more information on the published version, visit Breitkopf & Härtel's Website., In the fall of 1955, the young French film director, Alain Resnais, began a memorial project aimed at presenting the events of the Holocaust to...
Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer.
For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website., Wlodarski, Amy Lynn. George Rochberg's Road to Ars Combinatoria, 1943-63. Journal of the Society for American Music 12, no. 2 (2018):...
Wlodarski, Amy Lynn. Listening Contrapuntally; or What Happened When I Went Bach to the Archives. AJS Perspectives - Association for Jewish Studies Spring/Summer 2016: The Sound Issue., I remember the first time I heard a...