The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler (Part 1)

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Joshua Weilerstein

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I had the great pleasure and honor this week(and next week) to speak with the author of the new book Time's Echo Jeremy Eichler. The book chronicles four composers and their varied reactions to World War II and the Holocaust, including Schoenberg, Strauss, Shostakovich, and Britten. This week we talked about the historical symbiosis between Germans and German Jews, the concept of Bildung, a central idea in German culture throughout the 19th and early 20th century, Mendelssohn's role in creating a sense of "German" music, Schoenberg's remarkable prescience about what lay in the future after the Nazis took power in Germany, his remarkable Survivor from Warsaw, the first major musical memorial to the Holocaust, and the almost hard to believe it's so wild story of the premiere of the piece. This is truly one of my favorite books about classical music that I've ever read, so I highly recommend picking it up. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast.
0:09.6	My name is Joshua Weilerstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the Chief Conductor of the All Borg
0:13.7	Symphony and the Music Director of the Phoenix Orchestra of Boston.
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0:51.4	I am back in All Borg this week with the All Borg Symphony, doing Carl Nielsen's
0:56.7	Inextinguishable Symphony, his fourth symphony.
0:59.3	I talked about it a few weeks ago.
1:01.3	It's a remarkable piece, totally unique, and I'm really, it's a joy to be doing it with
1:05.6	a Danish orchestra who know it so well.
1:08.4	I'm also doing Duvorak's cello concerted with the legendary Steven Isserlis, and a piece
1:13.0	by Frederick Septimus Kelly, called Elegy, was written around the exact same time as Nielsen's
1:18.8	fourth symphony, as an Elegy for a friend who had died in World War I.
1:23.0	It's a very moving, short piece, and it's almost never played, so it's really great to
1:28.1	be pairing that with the Nielsen.
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