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

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

Update: 2023-09-281
Share

Description

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!

Comments 
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

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

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

Joshua Weilerstein