From: Geraldine Auerbach [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Dear Colleagues
Please send the information below to anyone on your email list who may have
some interest in this subject and who might like to attend the conference
Please also put this on your website and in any newsletters etc.
Many thanks
Geraldine
Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century
International Conference, Senate House, University of London, 8-11 April
2008
'Hitler tore a gaping hole in European culture and the damage has not yet
been repaired'. Nick Kimberley, The Observer, 2002.
With four days of papers from distinguished scholars across the world this
conference is set to be one of the most significant symposia ever held on
the subject. It will include sessions with families of the composers
affected and presentations from archives where their material is housed.
There will be an announcement of a competition for young performers to
recover this repertoire and films introduced by their makers: We Want the
Light on Music in Germany by Christopher Nupen and Music in Terezin by Simon
Broughton. Clive Marks OBE will give a preview of the forthcoming website
Music During the Holocaust http://holocaustmusic.ort.org <http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/> . The conference
will be opened by Leopold de Rothschild CBE
One of the results may be to liberate this music from decades of neglect and
open it up for re-examination as part of the musical development of the
early 20th century.
The Conference is presented by the Jewish Music Institute International
Centre for Suppressed Music based at SOAS, in conjunction with the Institute
of Musical Research, both part of the University of London. It will be
followed on 12 and 13 April by two days of concerts, films and public
lectures at the Cadogan Hall on Music in Exile, presented by the Artists of
the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.
To see details of Conference fees, speakers and to register on line
http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events or JMI Website www.jmi.org.uk
(Special discounted all-in ticket price for the 'Music in Exile' concert
and film programme at the Cadogan hall for Conference Delegates).
Booking for individual concerts. at Cadogan Hall 020 7730 4500
book online at http://www.cadoganhall.com/bookonline.html
This conference is supported by the Judy Appleman Foundation, Yaacov Kotliki
of Visonic Group, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the German Embassy.
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