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Concert Series “Echo of the Unheard” – Berg, Herschkowitz and Students | January 23, 2020

Posted on November 25, 2019 by - Concert Series " Echo of the Unheard", Featured, news, posts-en

Elisabeth Leonskaja und Sara Hershkowitz interpretieren Berg, Herschkowitz und Schüler

exil.arte Konzert „Echo des Unerhörten“ im ORF Radiokulturhaus, Großer Sendesaal

Die beiden Ausnahmekünstlerinnen Pianistin Elisabeth Leonskaja und Sängerin Sara Hershkowitz gestalten ein Programm mit Werken des Alban Berg-Schülers Philip Herschkowitz und zweier sehr unterschiedlichen SchülerInnen aus der ehemaligen Sowietunion.

Elisabeth Leonskaja © Julia Wesely

Der in Rumänien 1906 geborene Herschkowitz war zuerst Student bei Joseph Marx an der Wiener Musikakademie (heute Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), bevor er Schüler von Alban Berg und Anton Webern wurde. 1939 wurde er vom NS-Regime zur Flucht nach Jugoslawien gezwungen. Nach einem mehrjährigen Exil in Taschkent beabsichtigte er nach Wien zurückzukehren, was aber aufgrund der politischen Lage in der Sowietunion misslang. Daher ließ er sich 1946 in Moskau nieder, wo er Privatunterricht gab. Seine Kompositionstechnik war als „formalistisch“ verpönt, gleichzeitig stand er unter antisemitischer Bedrohung durch die Machthaber. 1949 wurde er aus dem Komponistenverband eliminiert. Herschkowitz war zeit seines Lebens ein einflussreicher Lehrer und unterrichtete unter anderem Edison Denisov, Elena Firsova, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Boris Tischenko und beeinflußte auch die Musikologen Mikhail Druskin, Natan Fishman und Yuri Kholopov.

Auch die junge Pianistin Elisabeth Leonskaja zählte zu seinen SchülerInnen.

Im Gespräch mit Irene Suchy werden die beiden Künstlerinnen über ihren persönlichen Zugang zu Philip Herschkowitz sprechen und seine Werke interpretieren.

Sara Hershkowitz © Thomas Jahn

Elisabeth Leonskaja, Klavier
Sara Hershkowitz, Sopran
Ulrike Anton, Flöte
Moderation: Dr. Irene Suchy

PROGRAMM

Alban Berg: Sonata für Klavier, op.1
Alban Berg: Frühe Lieder
Philip Herschkowitz: Miniaturen für Klavier
Philip Herschkowitz: Lieder nach Gedichten Paul Celans
Edison Denisov: Vier Gedichte von Gérard de Nerval für Sopran, Flöte und Klavier
Elena Firsova: Zwei Inventionen für Flöte solo

Donnerstag | 23 01 2020 | 19:30 Uhr
exil.arte Konzert „Echo des Unerhörten“
ORF Radiokulturhaus, Großer Sendesaal
Argentinierstraße 30a, 1040 Wien

Tickets ab sofort hier erhältlich.
Eintritt: EUR 27,–
Ermäßigungen:
ORF RadioKulturhaus-Karte 50%, Ö1 Club 10%

Expelled, persecuted, banned – European music and the consequences of National Socialism, current seminar at the mdw

Posted on November 14, 2019 by - Featured, Featured, International-en, news, news, posts-en, posts-en, Seminars & Workshops

The Association of Jewish Regufees | Sarah Lawrence College Archives

© The Association of Jewish Regufees | Sarah Lawrence College Archives

A seminar of the Exilarte Center offered for all fields of study as optional subject ( Spring and Fall semester)

Lecturers: a.o. Univ.-Prof. DDr. h.c. Gerold Gruber, Dr. Ulrike Anton, Dr. Michael Haas

OBJECTIVES

  • show the plurality of music that was prevented and destroyed by the Nazi seizure of power
  • describe the interaction between culture and politics
  • rediscover the repertoire lost by the National Socialists
  • analysis to concentration camp – emigration – exile – post-war period

 RESULTS

  • Students should be given a comprehensive knowledge of the complexity of music creation
  • Dealing with mostly forgotten composers and their works
  • Analysis of musical trends and different styles
  • Effects of politics, religion and the social environment on cultural creation
  • Students should discover new repertoire for themselves

PROSPECT

  • Getting to know unknown repertoire
  • Awareness of cultural responsibility
  • Influence of migration on the exile countries
  • Analysis from today’s point of view
  • Scientific and artistic interpretation in accordance
  • Analysis of different styles
  • Adaptation to the respective field of study

CONTACT: info@exilarte.org

BR radio show: Hans Winterberg – In search of a forgotten composer | October 11, 2019

Posted on October 3, 2019 by - Featured, International-en, news, posts-en

Gerold Gruber, Ulrike Anton and Michael Haas are guests of Andreas Pehl from the Bayerischer Rundfunk and talk about the extraordinary life cycle and the works of the composer Hans Winterberg, persecuted by the National Socialists.

Bavarian Radio Classical, Friday, October 11, 2019, 19:05 – 20 clock A replay of the program will take place on Saturday, October 12 at 2:05 pm.

The program can be heard via the live stream of Bayerischer Rundfunk and is also available via the media library or podcast service of the BR.

ORF – Long Night of Museums | October 5, 2019

Posted on August 26, 2019 by - Featured, Featured, International-en, Concert Series " Echo of the Unheard", Partnerships with Exilarte, news, news, Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en, posts-en

On Saturday, October 5, 2019, this year’s “ORF Long Night of Museums” took place throughout Austria for the 20th time.
The exil.arte center of mdw was pleased to be part of it for the first time this year and offered guided tours of the current exhibition as well as special program items.

SPECIAL EVENTS throughout the ORF Long Night of Museums

1) Concert: Echo of the Unheard (6:30 pm)

Programme:
Hans Gál (1890 – 1987) – Concertino für Flöte und Streichquartett, op. 82
Julius Bürger (1897 – 1995) – Streichquartett Nr. 2
Hans Winterberg (1901 – 1991) – Streichquartett 1957/1970

WISE –   Wien International Soloists Ensemble will bring works of these forgotten composers back to life.

Andrea Nikolić, violin
Jonathan Cano, violin
Marta Potulska, viola
Anzél Gerber, violoncello

Ulrike Anton, flute

2) Actor’s reading: Letters & manuscripts from Erwin Piscator (8:30 pm)

Read and interpreted by Tamara Stern and Hubert Wolf
Text selection: Susanne Abbrederis

3) Concert: From the Lower East to the Upper West Side (10:30 pm)

Music from the Jewish Theatres and Viennese Cafés in New York in the 1930s and 1940s. Esther Wratschko and her ensemble (Andrew Gorman & Lili Weihandl) will perform songs by Leopoldi, Berg and others

Programme:

Alexander Olshanetsky: Ikh hob dikh tsufil lib
Abraham Ellstein: Abi gezunt
Shalom Secunda: Bay mir bistu sheyn
Jimmy Berg: Man stellt sich um!
Hermann Leopoldi: Ja da wär´s halt gut, wenn man Englisch könnt
Jimmy Berg: Small Café near Central Park West

  • Rektor of the mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna Ulrike Sych and head of the exil.arte Center Gerold Gruber
  • Ulrike Anton and Andrea Nikolić
  • WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble
  • WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble
  • visitors of the exhibition
  • visitors of the exhibition
  • visitors of the exhibition
  • visitors of the exhibition
  • visitors of the exhibition
  • visitors of the exhibition
  • Hubert Wolf, Tamara Stern, Susanne Abbrederis
  • Tamara Stern
  • Hubert Wolf & Tamara Stern
  • Hubert Wolf
  • Hubert Wolf & Tamara Stern
  • visitors of the concert
  • visitors of the concert
  • visitors of the concert
  • visitors of the concert
  • Esther Wratschko & ensemble
  • Lili Weinhandl
  • Andrew Gorman, Esther Wratschko, Lili Weinhandl

Symposium „Jewish Music in South Germany – History, Exile, Continuance“ in Munich | July 11 – 12, 2019

Posted on August 26, 2019 by - Featured, Featured, International-en, Concert Series " Echo of the Unheard", news, news, posts-en, posts-en

The international Symposium „Jewish Music in South Germany – History, Exile, Continuance“ initiated by Tina Frühauf, took place at Munich’s University for Music and Performing Arts on July 11th and 12th 2019. It presented a wide spectrum of creativity current in Southern Germany prior to 1933, and included papers on both secular and liturgical works. exil.arte was represented by DDr. Prof. Gerold Gruber and Dr. Ulrike Anton both giving their papers on life and work of Hans Winterberg and Dr. Michael Haas, who spoke on the Kulturbund and New Zealand exile-composer Robert Fuchs. Documentation on Hans Winterberg as well as the estate of Robert Fuchs make up part of the archive of the exil.arte Center.  

  • a.o. Univ.-Prof. DDr. h.c. Gerold Gruber
  • Peter Kreitmeir
  • Dr. Ulrike Anton
  • Dr. Michael Haas
  • Dr. Michael Haas
  • Keller der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
  • Keller der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

Forbidden Music – “Jewish Destiny” and the defiance of Richard Fuchs

Posted on July 22, 2019 by - Featured

Senior Researcher Michael Haas has release a new article on his blog „Forbidden Music“ about Richard Fuchs: „Jewish Destiny“ and the defiance of Richard Fuchs.
Read the full article here.

Fuchs studied architecture and music in Karlsruhe. After his doctorate, he worked and gained considerable recognition as an architect after the First World War. 1935 he was forbidden to carry on working as an architect and began his new career as composer with the Jewish Cultural League. The synagogues he designed and built were burnt down during the Kristallnacht pogroms in November 1938. He fled Germany to New Zealand via England. His abiding aspiration was establishing a synthesis between Jewish and German music.

Film Screening “WALTER ARLEN’S FIRST CENTURY” at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York | June 12, 2019

Posted on June 13, 2019 by - Featured, International-en, posts-en

WALTER ARLEN’S FIRST CENTURY, a documentary by Vienna-based filmmaker Stephanus Domanig, paints an affectionate and multifaceted picture of a musician exiled in 1938, who only got to see his works performed late in life.

The film accompanies Walter Arlen for a part of his journey. With ease it paints the portrait of a remarkable man, a man who went through years of darkness but never lost sight of the “blue light of the last streetcar”.

Following the 90-minute screening of the film, there was a Q&A with exil.arte’s founding Director Gerold Gruber and filmmaker Stephanus Domanig.
Jeannie Im (soprano) and Dan Franklin Smith (piano) presented examples of Arlen’s musical oeuvre including “Five Songs of Love and Yearning.”

Please read the articles on this wonderful evening on Broadway World and Musical America.

Political Theater in Exile

Posted on June 9, 2019 by - Featured, posts-en

The exil.arte Center expanded on 21.05.2019 its exhibition “When I compose, I’m back in Vienna” with a portrayal of the life and work of Erwin Piscator and Maria Ley Piscator under the title “Political Theater in Exile”.
This expansion is part of The Lahr of Leitis Academy & Archive, which was recently acquired by the exil.arte center.

The exhibition shows Piscator’s significant influence on the development of the theater on both sides of the Atlantic. Piscator firmly believed that “art only serves its purpose if it contributes to human improvement.”

The exhibtion is open daily (Tuesday – Saturday from 3 pm to 7pm)

André Singer – „Echo of the Unheard” | March 19, 2019

Posted on May 21, 2019 by - Concert Series " Echo of the Unheard", posts-en

19. März 2019 | 19 Uhr | ORF Radiokulturhaus Studio 3
Argentinierstraße 30a, 1040 Wien
Gesprächskonzert André Singer

Works: Chamber music by André Singer

With: Joyce Lindorff, piano & cembalo, George Wolf, recitation, Ulrike Anton, flute; Trio Artio: Judith Fliedl, violin, Christine Roider, cello, Johanna Estermann, pianoIrene Suchy talks with the pianist and cembalist Joyce Lindorff, a former student of André Singer, the composers’ long term companion George Wolf and the historian Susanne Korbel.

Concert with compositions by Jan Urban, Leoš Janáček and Gideon Klein | October 9, 2018

Posted on May 21, 2019 by - posts-en

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Franz Liszt-Saal , Lothringerstraße 18, 1030 Wien
Mit der Pianistin Biljana Urban
 
Jan Urbans Kompositionsstil entwickelte sich aus der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Biljana Urban, die Enkelin des Komponisten, selbst international renommierte Pianistin, wird das Werk ihres Großvaters mit seinen Zeitgenossen Leoš Janáček und Gideon Klein vergleichen.