August Symposium Videos Now Online
09 20, 2014
On August 9 and 10, 2014, The Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices at The Colburn School hosted a symposium entitled “Music, Censorship and Meaning in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union: Echoes and Consequences.”
Video recordings of nearly every session from the symposium have now been uploaded to a designated YouTube channel and may be accessed via the following link. To locate the beginning of a particular paper within each video, consult the video descriptions for timings. For further reference, the entire symposium schedule also follows.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqU5Ud9QJNFYE3LJtbaEiKg/videos?sort=da&view=0&flow=grid
DAY ONE
Saturday, August 9
Sel Kardan (President and CEO of The Colburn School) James Conlon Robert Elias Welcome and Opening Comments
Michael Haas “Towards Humanity, Away from Ideology”
Barbara Milewski “Forbidding Forbidden Songs: Poland's Controversial First Postwar Feature Film”
Bret Werb “Censorship, Sabotage and Self-Subversion in the Yiddish Shoah Song.”
Derek Katz
“Die Politik ist ganz vergessen in Kalumba: The Comedian Harmonists—Recordings, Repertoire and Restrictions”
Lily Hirsch
“Righting and Remembering Past Wrongs: Music Suppressed by the Nazis in American Concert Performance”
James Conlon (5 pm) “The Oblique Censor: Contemporary Challenges in Programming Lesser-Known Works” 6-8 pm Dinner Break/Reception
8:15-9:45 pm “I Heard the Wild Geese” Recital, reading and mini-symposium on translating Chinese into Czech and English, and translating music into words. Featuring: Bill Porter (Red Pine), author and translator; Fred Melamed, actor: Professor Michael Beckerman; and including a performance of “Four Songs on Chinese Poetry” written in Terezin by composer Pavel Haas.
DAY TWO
Sunday, August 10
Alex Ross
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Christopher Hailey “Between Accommodation and Self-Censorship: Universal Edition in the Thirties”
Patricia Hall “Alban Berg’s 'Guilt' by Association.”
Kenneth Reinhard
“Recovering
1-2:15 pm Lunch Break
Michael Beckerman and James Loeffler ”In Memory of Our Murdered (Jewish) Children: Mikhail Gnesin and the Holocaust in Soviet Music,” featuring a performance of Mikhail Gnesin“s Piano Trio, Op.63
Edna Stern, pianist
Commentary and Performance
Beethoven: Piano Sonata Number 8 in C Minor, “
Professor Michael Beckerman Concluding comments