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(Part 2) - The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler
(Part 2) - The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler
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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
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!
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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