“My Song For You”: Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura – Between Two Worlds
Exhibition of the exil.arte Center of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
WE ARE OPEN AGAIN STARTING MAY 19th 2021
Photo credits: Maria Noisternig
Simultaneous event and Livestream from the Liszt Hall of the mdw in Vienna and the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York now available on Youtube
On the occasion of the transfer of the estate of Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura to the exil.arte Center of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), an exhibition has been prepared to present the life of the opera dream couple and their friends and colleagues.
Special Guests: Ulrike Sych (President of the mdw) and Wolfgang Sobotka (President of the Austrian Parliament) World-famous tenor Ramón Vargas and Pianist István Bonyhádi
The opening will also be available on mdw Mediathek from November 9th, 2020.
Lew Nussimbaum, alias Essad Bey, alias Kurban Said: Border Crosser – Cosmopolitan – Jewish Muslim – Orientalist in Exile
Gregorij H. von Leitis, founding director of Elysium and winner of the New York Theater Club Prize and the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, reads from the fantastic work of Lew Nussimbaum.
Introduction: Michael Lahr, Program Director of Elysium / Director The Lahr von Leitis Academy & Archive
In his short life, the Russian Jewish writer Lew Nussimbaum (1905 – 1942) came into contact with all the movements of the early 20th century: communism, fascism and National Socialism. Having fled to Berlin from Baku, which was gripped by the October Revolution, he converted to Islam there in 1922 and changed his name to Essad Bey. He began to write, especially for The Literary World by Willy Haas. His first book Oil and Blood in the Orient immediately became a bestseller. In rapid succession he wrote 13 other books, including biographies of Mohammed, Stalin and Nicholas II. In 1936 he published the novel Ali and Nino under the pseudonym Kurban Said, a Romeo and Juliet story set at the interface between Islam and Christianity. He fled from the Nazis to Vienna, and finally after the “Anschluss” to Italy, where he died of a rare disease in Positano in 1942.
The Lahr von Leitis archive has been part of the exil.arte Centre of the mdw since 2018.
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
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
Franz Liszt-Saal , Lothringerstraße 18, 1030 WienMit der Pianistin Biljana Urban
Ein Vergleich mit Leoš Janáček und Gideon Klein
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.
Diese Gedenkveranstaltung fand im Zeremoniensaal der Hofburg in Wien statt.
Egon Wellesz, Streichquartett Nr. 4, III. Sehr langsam, Walter Arlen, „Es geht wohl anders“ für Gesang und Klavier, Sonett für Violine und Klavier, Humoreske für Piano solo Mitwirkende: Ensemble der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien; Selini Quartett: Liubov Kalmykova (Violine), Nadia Kalmykova (Violine), Loredana Apetrei (Viola), Loukia Loulaki (Violoncello); Rafat Mokrzycki (Klavier), leva Pranskute (Violine); Helene Franziska Feldbauer (Mezzosporan)
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien Alter Konzertsaal, Rennweg 8, 1030 Wien
Mit Studierenden von Gertraud Berka-Schmid Alexander Tarko, Lisa Pupitz, Mathias Schmidhammer, Marin Drmac Gäste und Mitgestalter: Ronald Leopoldi (Sohn), Sepp Tatzl (Schriftsteller, Regisseur, Zeitzeuge), Gerold Gruber (Leiter des exil.arte Zentrum der mdw), Peter Marschik (Dirigent, Pianist, Komponist)
Die Begrüßung erfolgte durch Nationalratspräsident Mag. Wolfgang Sobotka. Gespielt wird die Musik der vertriebenen Komponisten Bruno Walter, Walter Arlen und Ernst Toch
Musikerinnen: Ekaterina Frolova, Violine, Mari Sato, Klavier, Andreea Cojoc, Sopran, Joelle Bouffa, Klavier, Christine Roider, Violoncello, Johanna Estermann, Klavier
Mona Golabek, die Autorin des neu bei Amalthea erschienenen Buches „Die Pianistin von Wien“, erzählte auf Einladung von exil.arte die berührende Geschichte über ihre Mutter im akademischen Gymnasium in Wien.
