This lunchtime concert features the recently rediscovered music of the anti-fascist and experimental radio producer and composer Ernst Schoen. Schoen, a former director of Radio Frankfurt and friend of Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and others, escaped to London after being arrested for crimes against the Third Reich in 1934, and continued his writing and activism in exile.
A concert of the work of Jewish émigré composers Robert Kahn, Egon Wellesz and Mátyás Seiber, given by Norbert Meyn, Ingrid Pearson, Abigail Lorrimer and Christopher Gould, all members of the Ensemble Émigré.
An online symposium entitled Music, Migration and Mobility – The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain, hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum London.
Premiere of Richard Shaw’s new film about the German-born writer and art collector Ruth Borchard
Norbert Meyn and members of his Ensemble Émigré will pay tribute to German-born composer Robert Kahn, who came to the UK in 1938, at the age of 73, and lived in Biddenden Kent until his death in 1951. It was there that he wrote over 1000 piano pieces
A screening of the award-winning documentary Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me, followed by a discussion and Q&A with its writer and director Sheila Hayman
A talk about German-born artist Milein Cosman
A rich array of musical images by émigré photographers will evoke the deeply cultured milieu in which so many refugees from Nazism lived.
Norbert Meyn and Michael Holden introduce the remarkably rich musical life of the British internment camps, and perform some of the works created there. Joined by Eva Fox-Gál, daughter of composer Hans Gál, whose internment diary was published under the title Music behind Barbed Wire.
The Ensemble Burletta will be giving a concert at Stockbridge Church in Edinburgh which includes émigré composer Hans Gál’s Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello.
Composer Marilyn Herman introduces a video-recorded recital of two brand new works relating to her family’s tragic wartime history
The Royal College of Music will host the interdisciplinary international online conference.
The Royal College of Music will host the interdisciplinary international online conference.
The Royal College of Music will host the interdisciplinary international online conference.
The first of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
Marilyn Hermanwill be in conversation with conductor Karin Hendrickson about her two recent compositions.
The second of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
On Tuesday 18 October at 7.30pm, there will be a memorial concert at Leighton House, London, organised by the Kensington and Chelsea Music Society, paying tribute to the eminent Austrian-born British composer and conductor Joseph Horovitz, who sadly died earlier this year. The programme will include his Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano and his String […]
The third of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
The fourth of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
Marilyn Herman in conversation about two haunting new compositions relating to her family’s tragic wartime history.
Over more than five decades, her work for the Academic Assistance Council and its successor, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, ensured refuge for thousands of displaced academics worldwide and had a profound impact on twentieth-century science, philosophy, philology, architecture and art history.
Professor Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear, co-authors of the 2023 book Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century, will first talk about the life of Ernst Schoen (1894-1960)—poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London.
In its first years of existence, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera set out to internationalize English opera culture, both by attracting international artists and leading proponents of a new concept of opera production and by giving émigrés the chance to further hone skills developed in Central Europe and beyond.