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HEINRICH HEINE
First They Burn Books
In 1831, the German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) left Germany for Paris, where he lived the rest of his life as a political exile. His works had been banned in his native country and were later banned by the Nazis. With a script based on Heine’s writings and Wagner’s infamous essay Judaism in Music, this theatrical concert examines censorship in Heine’s time and into the Nazi period. Works of such “degenerate” composers as Mendelssohn, Bloch, Schulhoff, Eisler, and Webern, as well as some of Schubert’s, Schumann’s, and Brahms’ extraordinary settings of Heine’s poems, create a concert experience infused with personal and political drama.
Robert Ian Mackenzie as Heinrich Heine
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Wayne Lee, violin
Dmitry Kouzov, cello
Max Barros and Eve Wolf, piano
Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders
Production and Costume Design by Vanessa James
Pre-concert lecturer: James Melo
Eve Wolf & Max Barros, ERC Artistic Directors
James Melo, ERC musicologist
The Liederkranz Foundation
6 East 87th Street
Thu May 7 8:00 pm 7:00 pm pre-concert lecture
Sat May 9 3:00 pm 2:00 pm pre-concert lecture
The Liederkranz Foundation (Handicapped Accessible)
6 East 87th Street
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♦ FREE SEMINAR
Degenerate Ideologies: Heine’s Exile and the Nazi’s Entartete Musik
ERC is in residence as a musicological affiliate to the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Panelists:
James Melo, Senior Editor, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
Mark Anderson, Professor of Germanic Languages at Columbia University
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) spent his most productive years in exile in< Paris, where he arrived in 1831 and where he remained until his death, except for a brief visit to his native Germany in 1843. In Paris, he embarked on a relentless critique of German culture and institutions, which caused his works to be banned in his country and, later, to be included in the massive book burning carried out by the Nazis in 1933 in Berlin's Opernplatz. The seminar will examine Heine's exile, his conflicted German and Jewish heritages, his role in the development of the German Lied and Romantic music in general, and the relationship between censorship and the Nazis' banning of music labeled as Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music).
Mon Apr 27 5:30 - 7:30 pm
365 Fifth Ave., Skylight Room, 9th floor
Admission is free
Handicapped Accessible
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