Music In The Time Of War
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Music In The Time Of War is a week-long lecture and concert series exploring and experiencing the music and the people of World War II...and honoring the memory and the legacy left to us today through the performances and the conversations we are able to share this week.
All events are in Munson Recital Hall and admission is free (no tickets are required to attend).
Monday, February 22, 4:20pm
Professor Nick Strimple, Guest Lecturer
Featured in our weekly Performance Forum class, Professor Strimple is the leading author of books on choral literature for the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, he is recognized internationally for his work with music related to the Holocaust. His lecture today will be the first event in this week-long series.
Monday, February 22, 7:30pm
Beauty and Brutality
Dr. Susan Eischeid (oboist), from Valdosta State University (Georgia), presents a lecture on an infamous woman, SS Aufseherin Maria Mandl and the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Following her lecture will be a short concert featuring music from the time period, including works by Mordecai Gebirtig, Shike Driz, Pavel Haas, as well as Buchenwald Hymn, Babi Yar, Treblinka, and My Mother Longed to be There on my Wedding Day. This will be a moving and emotional evening for all who attend.
Tuesday, February 23, 12pm (noon)
A Tribute To Pianist: Dame Myra Hess
A one-hour long concert with brief lecture in tribute to pianist, Dame Myra Hess, and the concerts she organized at the National Gallery of London between the years 1939-1946. The program includes a brief history of this remarkable woman who designed a noon-time concert series during the war to encourage her countrymen.
Program will include the music of Elgar, Mozart, Bach, and Benny Goodman as well as appearances by APU Pianist Maria Wietrzynska; APU Voice Professor, Dr. Melanie Galloway; APU Professor of Violin, Alex Russell; and the APU Chamber Orchestra under the direction of APU Professor, Dr. John Sutton.
Wednesday, February 24, 7:30pm
Degenerate Music Concert
Degenerate Music was a term applied by the Nazis in the 1930's to identify music, composers, and performers that they deemed to be particularly dangerous or decadent. By 1938, the Entarte Musik Exhibit (and other exhibits throughout Germany) included examples of music considered to be degenerate. The goal of our concert is two fold: 1) To celebrate the music once dubbed inferior, and its ability to outlive its would-be censors, and 2) To serve as a reminder that our personal tastes and experiences are not the only arbiter of what has value.
Four overarching identifying marks of targeted musicians considered degenerate by the Nazis included the Jews, Blacks, Homosexuals, and Gypsies. In a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit, tonight's event will feature this very music, including performances by the Jazz Ensemble, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Men's Chorale, and Chamber Singers.
Friday, February 26, 7:30pm
Remembering the Holocaust Concert
Tonight's program is the conclusion of this memorial week tribute with beautiful choral music. The performance includes music performed in the concentration camps, music composed by its survivors and its victims, and music written in tribute to the Holocaust and its victims.
Special guests include Professor Nick Strimple, the APU Chamber Singers, and Michelle Jensen (conductor). Join us as we bring this tribute week to a close, and prepare to be moved, challenged, and inspired through the music of this solemn evening.
(All events in this series are appropriate for people of all ages)
