(Part 2) - The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This is another episode where I highly recommend listening to Part 1 from last week before listening to this episode! It was a great honor to speak with the critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler about his remarkable new book "Time's Echo." In today's episode, we speak about Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen, as well as the complicated and hotly debated questions about Strauss' activities during World War II. We also talk about Shostakovich and his 13th Symphony, entitled "Babi Yar," a piece of memorial for a place where no memorial had stood for decades. Finally, we speak about Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem. We talk about Britten's devout pacificism, about his visit to the Belsen Displaced Persons camp after World War II, and why his War Requiem seems to have more connection with World War I than with World War II. It was truly a joy to talk to Jeremy about all of these different great composers, as well as the memories they created with their works. Join us!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | My name is Joshua Leiderstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the Chief Conductor of the All |
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| 0:53.2 | I am in All Bork again this week. |
| 0:54.8 | I had an amazing time last week with Stephen Isserlis doing the Divorzoch Telecom |
| 0:59.3 | Charedo and also performing Nielsen's fourth symphony with the All Bork Symphony. |
| 1:04.1 | Very special to be doing such a central core piece of Danish repertoire with this wonderful |
| 1:08.6 | Danish orchestra. |
| 1:10.1 | And this week we are doing something also really special. |
| 1:12.7 | It is the first time ever a live version of this podcast. |
| 1:17.6 | We are going to be doing Divorzoch's new world symphony with the All Bork Symphony. |
| 1:21.8 | First half, we are going to take apart the whole piece as we always do on this show. |
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