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...
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 a postwar generation reluctant to acknowledge the extent of such human rights...
Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer.
George Rochberg often attributed his postmodern shift to the death of his son in 1964. Accordingly, the literature has described his practice of ars combinatoria (“art of combination”) as an “abrupt about-face”—a sudden...
I remember the first time I heard a Bach fugue—the Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543—in a Music History class at Middlebury College. It was a time in my life when I identified as a singer, one whose ears were predominantly...
