Category: Partnerships with Exilarte

Partnerships

NASOM “Echoes of Vienna”I Exilarte in cooperation with Elisabeth Plank I Hans Gál & Arnold Schönberg

Posted on March 19, 2024 by - Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© Julia Wesely

NASOM New Austrian Sound of Music 2023/24 Artist: Harpist Elisabeth Plank presents the music from her hometown Vienna in March and April 2024 in the USA, including estates from the mdw’s Exilarte Center. The program takes you into impressive and at the same time delicate soundscapes, which are characterized by original compositions and arrangements by renowned composers such as Arnold Schönberg, Hans Gál and many others.

Concerts:

March 19, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington D.C.

March 23, 2024 at 2:30 p.m., University of North Texas / Voertman Hall, Denton (TX)

March 24, 2024 at 6:00 p.m., American Harp Society Houston / Archway Gallery,Houston (TX)

March 29, 2024 at 8:30 p.m., Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington (IN)

March 30, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., University of Northern Kentucky / Greaves Concert Hall, Highland Heights (KY)

April 4, 2024 at 4:30 p.m., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Smith Hall, Urbana (IL)

April 6, 2024 at 1:00 p.m., Lyon & Healy Hall, Chicago (IL)

April 7, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., American Harp Society Philadelphia / Temple Lutheran Church (501 Brookline Blvd, Havertown, PA 19083), Philadelphia (PA)

April 9, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, NYC

Links:

https://www.acfdc.org/events/elisabeth-plank

Echoes of Vienna
Harp Day

https://www.musicaustria.at/the-new-austrian-sound-of-music-2023-2024/

“Nostalgia”I Exilarte in cooperation with Amadeus Festival Vienna I June 29, 2024 I Hans Gál

Posted on January 16, 2024 by - Aktuell, Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© Amadeus Festival Vienna 2024

Saturday, June 29, 2024, 5 p.m.
Festival Bühne
Bastiengasse 36-38
1180 Vienna

Tickets order here.

Artists:

Nadia Kalmykova, violin

Liuba Kalmykova, violin

Kasumi Yui, piano

© Theresa Pewal
© Amelie Meißner

Program:

M. Moszkovsky: Suite for 2 violins and piano op. 71 (20’)

H. Gál: Sonata for 2 violins and piano op. 96 (22’)

D. Shostakovich: 5 pieces for 2 violins and piano (10’)

P. De Sarasate: Navarra op. 33 (6′)

“Dance Poems”I Exilarte in cooperation with Orchestra Divertimento Viennese I Concert & Lecture I June 23, 2024

Posted on January 16, 2024 by - Aktuell, Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© Louise Zemlinsky, Alexander Zemlinsky Fonds

Gerold Gruber reports on the composers Alexander Zemlinsky and Reynaldo Hahn.

Sunday, June 23, 2024;
11:00 a.m.
Great Hall, Brucknerhaus
Untere Donaulände 7
A-4010 Linz

Tickets here.

There will be a concert introduction for concert goers at 10:00 a.m. (with free admission).

Speaker:

Gerold W. Gruber
Marie-Theres Arnbom

Program:

Paul Dukas (1865-1935) – La Péri. Poème dansé for orchestra (1909–10)

Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947) – Concerto in E major for piano and orchestra (1930)

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942) – A dance poem. Ballet in one act (1901, 1904)

Artists:

Shani Diluka, piano

Orchestra Divertimento Viennese

Brass Band Upper Austria, stage music

Vinzenz Praxmarer, conductor

About the program:

The Linz conductor Vinzenz Praxmarer and his orchestra Divertimento Viennese present sound-drunk dance poems from Vienna and Paris at the turn of the century. While Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Ein Tanzpoem, the revised Act II of an unfinished setting of the ballet The Triumph of Time by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, only had its premiere 50 years after the composer’s death, Paul Dukas was able to perform what he himself described as Poème dansé Ballet La Péri celebrated a great success at its premiere in 1912. In between, a real gem will be heard, with the world-famous pianist Shani Diluka as soloist: the fascinating piano concerto by Reynaldo Hahn, the middle movement of which is entitled “Danse”.

Link to program here.

Courage – Music in Resistance Against National Socialism I June 3, 2024

Posted on November 30, 2023 by - Aktuell, Events at the Exilarte Center, Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© The Herbert and Trudl Zipper Archives Collection , Colburn School (LA, USA)

Courage – Music in Resistance Against National Socialism I June 3rd, 2024

The Exilarte Center makes what has been silenced resonate again and makes what has been forgotten visible again.

During the dark times of National Socialism, using music to send a sign of resistance was for many Jewish composers the only way to accuse, rebel or find hope again in desperate situations. Many of them were persecuted, murdered or forced into exile. But their works, which were sometimes created under the most adverse circumstances, still bear witness to unparalleled courage and remind us of the power that music radiates. Music helped to survive and endure what was immediately happening. But the sounds created also made it possible to denounce the injustice of the perpetrators with hidden musical messages. Viktor Ullmann composed his Emperor of Atlantis in the Theresienstadt ghetto, mercilessly holding up a mirror to the terror regime before he was murdered in Auschwitz; Herbert Zipper secretly wrote a resistance song in the Dachau concentration camp and Hans Gál ironically presented the morning wake-up call in the internment camp in Great Britain as a refugee in his Huyton Suite. Some of the still undiscovered works from this program are in the archives of the Exilarte Center of the mdw.

Monday, June 3, 2024 at 8 p.m.

Musikverein Wien

Glass Hall / Magna Auditorium
Musikvereinsplatz 1,
Bösendorferstrasse 12,
A-1010 Vienna
Admission: tickets@musikverein.at

Artists:

Adrian Eröd, baritone
Clemens Flieder, violin
Raimund Lissy, violin
Ulrike Anton, flute
Armin Egger, guitar
David Hausknecht, piano
Gerold Gruber, lecture

Program: 

RICHARD FUCHS
Das Kaddisch

HERBERT ZIPPER
Dachaulied

HANS WINTERBERG
Theresienstadt Suite

RICHARD FUCHS
from: Vom Jüdischen Schicksal 
Stimme der Vorzeit

VIKTOR ULLMANN
Der Kaiser von Atlantis – Auszüge

WILHELM GROSZ
A Song in Exile

HANS GÁL
Huyton Suite

WILHELM GROSZ
Great Times

“The path through Paradise”I Exilarte in cooperation with Bösendorfer Salon I April 05, 2024 I Walter Bricht

Posted on August 4, 2023 by - Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© Arash Amiri

Gustav Klimt’s golden era in Vienna combines resonant images from Liszt, Mahler and Richard Strauss. The young woman from his expectation – is she the mysterious beauty that Arnold Schönberg describes in his early opus? And the Garden of Eden from the Tree of Life – is that the place where Elisabeth from Walter Brich’s Hesse setting has already been?

The atmospheric figures from Gustav Klimt’s works that adorn the new Tree of Life wing are the starting point for a journey through the ups and downs of love – the path through paradise!

The soprano Arabella Fenyves and the pianist David Hausknecht interpret the still unknown musical treasures of the exiled composer Walter Bricht, returning them to the Viennese art song repertoire.

Friday, April 5th, 2024, 7 p.m.
Bösendorfer Salon
Bösendorferstraße 12 | Canovagasse 4,
1010 Vienna

Admission free!
Pre-registration: Eventbrite

Artists:

Arabella Fenyves, soprano

David Hausknecht, piano

Works by:

Walter Bricht, Arnold Schönberg, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Franz Liszt

“Music in Auschwitz”I Exilarte in cooperation with Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance I May 13, 2024

Posted on August 4, 2023 by - Aktuell, Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© Chris Boyes

Dance band arrangements by members of the Auschwitz Men’s Orchestra played by musicians from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance under the baton of Oriol Sans.

Monday, May 13, 2024, 8 p.m.
Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna
Dorotheergasse 11
1010 Vienna

The ten short pieces on this program were arranged by Polish political prisoners who were members of the Auschwitz Orchestra. They used popular German hits of the 1930s and 40s – tangos, waltzes and foxtrots arranged and orchestrated for a dance band that played Sunday concerts for the Auschwitz garrison near the villa of Commandant Höss. The resulting manuscripts, which I began researching in May 2016, are stored in the collections department of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Occasionally the prisoners signed these manuscripts with their prisoner number, e.g. B. Antoni Gargul, a viola player and Polish soldier (5665), or Maksymilian Piłat (5131), a bassoonist with a conservatory diploma who played in the orchestra of the State Opera and the Baltic Philharmonic in Gdansk after the war.

In the musical realization of these manuscripts for tonight’s performance, we retained the original instrumentation as much as possible and made only very small changes in the event of obvious errors. You hear these works, silent for over 70 years, as close as possible to how they sounded in 1942 or ’43 when they were performed at Auschwitz 1. The lines spoken by our singers are taken from testimonies and interviews with members of the Auschwitz Orchestra conducted in the post-war period.

We would like to thank the Copernicus Institute, the Exilarte Center, Dean David Gier, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance, and the Global Tour Fund of the School of Music, Theater & Dance for making this concert possible.

Patricia Hall, 2020

Artists:

Oriol Sans, conductor

Musicians from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance

Moderation:

Gerold Gruber

“Stumbling Blocks”I Exilarte in cooperation with the Alma Mahler Philharmonie I March 10 and 20, 2024 I

Posted on August 4, 2023 by - Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© Alma Mahler Philharmonie

Sunday, March 10, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – large Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 7:00 p.m
VHS Vienna Urania, Dachsaal
Uraniastrasse 1
1010 Vienna

Tickets: www.almamahlerphilharmonie.com

© Natalie Paloma
© Natalie Paloma
© Natalie Paloma

“… my life only took on content when I began to seriously concentrate on music […] – I was completely on my own…” (Hugo Kauder)

The concert will feature music for string orchestra by Eric Zeisl, Hugo Kauder, Julius Bürger, Mieczysław Weinberg and Gideon Klein. You can also enjoy lively music from Fritz Kreisler and Anita Bild. Never-before-heard archive treasures await you.

The Alma Mahler Philharmonic stands up for composers who have been unjustly forgotten. Part of their commitment is the (re)discovery of the music of exiled composers, especially those who were expelled from Germany and Austria during National Socialism and whose music was banned.

The Alma Mahler Philharmonic is a non-profit chamber orchestra consisting of more than 30 young musical talents. The program will be conducted by Clara Bauer Wagsteiner, a graduate of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The pianist and musicologist Karin Wagner will guide you through the evening with background information and exciting details.

Artists:

Clara Bauer Wagsteiner, conductor

Pouria Oslanou, violin

Günter Haumer, baritone

Alma Mahler Philharmonic Orchestra

Music for string orchestra by:

Anita Bild, Julius Bürger, Hugo Kauder,

Gideon Klein, Fritz Kreisler,

Mieczysław Weinberg, Eric Zeisl

Moderation:

Karin Wagner

“Fate”I Exilarte in cooperation with Beethoven Philharmonie I February 21, 2024

Posted on August 3, 2023 by - Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

© Martin Walz

Fourth piano concerto by Hans Winterberg

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Congress Center Baden
Emperor Franz Ring 1,
2500 Baden

Tickets here.

In Romanticism, the wanderer is a symbol of loneliness, the searching outsider and restlessness. Schubert took up this theme in numerous songs, and it also inspired him in his Wanderer Fantasy.

Hans Winterberg was also an outsider and preoccupied with his identity throughout his life, and it is only now, decades after his death, that he is being discovered as an important composer: born into a Jewish family, becoming a Czech citizen, married to a Catholic woman, in Theresienstadt Interned, emigrated to Germany and honored as a Sudeten German, his work has only recently become accessible. We will premiere his Fourth Piano Concerto and discuss its fascinating history in detail in a panel discussion before the concert.

Perhaps Beethoven’s most famous work, his Fifth Symphony, whose main motif is commonly associated with fate, is an ideal complement, leading from Dunkel to a hard-won victory.

© Congress Center Baden

Artists:

Jonathan Powell, piano

Thomas Rösner, conductor

Beethoven Philharmonic Orchestra

Program:

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to “Egmont”, op. 84

Franz Schubert / Franz Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy

Hans Winterberg: Piano Concerto No. 4

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

“Worn Out!?” I Rediscovery of persecuted female composers by the time of the Nazi regimeI Concert & ConversationI 26 January, 2024

Posted on August 3, 2023 by - Partnerships with Exilarte, posts-en

An event by the Joseph Hellmesberger Institute for String Instruments, Guitar and Harp in Music Education (designated as Alma Rosé Institute for String Instruments, Guitar and Harp in Music Education) under the overall direction of Bettina Schmitt in cooperation with Exilarte. Center for Persecuted Music and the Institute for Music and Movement Pedagogy/Rhythmics and Music Physiology.

Funded by the Gender|Queer|Diversity Call 2022 of the Gender_mdw platform

Friday, January 26, 2024; 6:30 p.m.
Joseph Haydn – Hall mdw-Campus
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna

Admission free!

The event will be streamed live via the mdwMediathek.

About the program:

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a concert with discussion will take place on the evening before, January 26, 2024 under the title “Erased!? Rediscovery of persecuted female composers during the time of the Nazi regime”. The concert will feature chamber music works by the Nazi regime. Composers Leni Alexander, Anita Bild, Henriette Bosmans, Ursula Mamlok, Ruth Schönthal, Germaine Tailleferre, Vally Weigl, Rosalie Marie Wertheim, who were expelled from the regime, were performed and were selected and rehearsed by project leader, violinist and conductor Bettina Schmitt. At the same time, rhythmic students interpret and movement pedagogy some of these works. In a conversation with the flautist and exile researcher Dr. Ulrike Anton, conducted by colleagues from exilarte, we talk about these rarely performed composers and their artistic work.

In conversation:

Dr. Ulrike Anton, Director of the Arnold Schoenberg Center Vienna
Katja Kaiser, Exilarte Center of the mdw

Now also in Vienna: Book Presentation “MUSIC OF EXILE”I 11 January, 2024

Posted on August 3, 2023 by - Partnerships with Exilarte

We are pleased to receive the book “Music of Exile – The Untold Story of Composers Who Fled Hitler” (Yale University Press, 2023) by the renowned author and researcher of “exiled music” Dr. Benjamin Michael Haas to Vienna after a successful presentation in London.
  
Thursday, 11 January 2024, 6:30 pm
Jewish Museum Vienna
Dorotheergasse 11
1010 Vienna

Free Admission! Register here.

Greeting: Rektorin Mag.a Ulrike Sych

In Conversation: Benjamin Michael Haas mit Gerold Gruber

Musical Accompaniment:

Steven Scheschareg, Bariton
Josipa Bainac, Mezzosopran
David Hausknecht, Klavier
Cristina Basili, Violoncello

Works by:

Walter Arlen, Walter Bricht, Julius Bürger, Richard Fuchs, Robert Fürstenthal 

About the Book:
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?
In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile—composing under a ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and ghettos.

Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of this musical diaspora. Torn between cultures and traditions, these composers produced music that synthesized old and new worlds, some becoming core portions of today’s repertoire, some relegated to the desk drawer. Encompassing the musicians interned as enemy aliens in the United Kingdom, the brilliant Hollywood compositions of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the Brecht-inspired theater music of Kurt Weill, Haas shows how these musicians shaped the twentieth-century soundscape—and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.
 
About Autor:
Benjamin Michael Haas, PhD was for many years a recording producer with Decca and Sony. 1994/5 he was appointed Vice President of Sony Classical in NY. He has won a number of Grammys, initiated and led Decca’s recording series “Entartete Musik”. From 2002 – 2010, he worked as Music Curator at Vienna’s Jewish Museum. From 2000 – 2015 he was director at London University’s Jewish Music Institute and in 2015/16, he was a Research Associate at the University College London’s School of Jewish and Hebrew Studies. Since 2016 he has acted as Senior Researcher at mdw’s Exilarte Center, which he co-founded.