Music of Exile
Michael Haas
Yale 400pp (hb) £25
This hugely important book explores the vast array of musical talent from Central Europe that was forced into exile after Hitler came to power in 1933. Inevitably, much of its focus centres around the experience that émigré composers faced in the United States and in Great Britian. But Michael Haas casts his net much wider, highlighting the stories of those musicians who relocated to completely unexpected parts of the globe such as
