Ep. 297 | Austro-German Jewish Musicians in Wartime Shanghai

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Laszlo welcomes Scripps College professor of music Dr. Hao Huang onto the CHP to discuss the stories of Jewish musicians from Germany and Austria who fled Europe and ended up in Shanghai. This is a companion episode to the six-part series on the Jewish Refugees in Shanghai (Episodes 208-213). Professor Huang discusses the trials and tribulations these musicians faced, stories of their survival, and the great legacy many of them left behind in China. GREAT BIG thanks go out to: CINEVISION GLOBAL INC for allowing us to use a sample of the original Chinese version of Rose, Rose I Love You, better known as Shanghai Rose. The Exilarte Center at the MDW - the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna for allowing us to use an audio sample of the Wolfgang Fraenkel, Drei Orchesterlieder / Three Orchestral Songs (1941) that composer Fraenkel wrote while he was in Shanghai Youtube channel Onkel Greifenklau for allowing us to use a sample of violinist Alfred Wittenberg the Allegro molto from Mozart's String Quartet in G Major (Wittenberg-Quartet) Youtube channel Musicprof78 for allowing us to use a sample of Frankie Laine's version of Rose, Rose I Love you. and Micah Huang for sound production. Check out Michah Huang and Emma Geiss at https://www.theflowerpistilsmusic.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to another CHP episode.
0:04.0	This is LauselomundGummary once again.
0:06.0	I appreciate you all stopping by and listening.
0:09.7	Another special episode today, miss, it always is whenever I'm able to trick a guest into
0:13.8	coming on the program.
0:15.5	And to tell the story of this subject, I think will be of interest to musicians and non-musicians
0:21.1	alike.
0:22.1	It's my good friend from the neighborhood, Dr. Haohwang, professor of music at Scripps
0:26.4	College.
0:27.4	Founded in 1926, here in Claremont, California, where we're recording from today.
0:33.6	In person, none of this Zoom or Zencaster stuff.
0:37.8	Dr. Haohwang is educated at Harvard, Juilliard and State University of New York.
0:42.8	He's also a four-time United States Information Agency, Artistic Ambassador to Europe, the
0:49.6	Middle East, and Africa.
0:51.6	And has a list of awards, concert appearances, and accomplishments longer than the
0:57.4	Karakorum Highway, just about Haohwang.
1:01.1	Welcome to the CHP.
1:02.4	It's a pleasure to be with you.
1:05.3	Great to have you.
1:06.3	And I have no small number of Haka listeners here in the U.S. and around the world.
1:11.3	Anything you'd like to say to your fellow Haka's?
1:14.5	Sure.
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