Different Trains: Music and the Holocaust
In fractured and polarized times, music has a unique ability to bridge divides and bring us together. The Balourdet Quartet and ECMS artistic director Tom Stone will preview Steve Reich’s Grammy winning Different Trains, along with music by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Erwin Schulhoff, bringing historical context to the music and composers, and leading to a discussion of freedom, history, and the role of the arts in society.
The award winning Balourdet Quartet and ECMS artistic director Tom Stone will present musical selections and a discussion of music in the context of the holocaust. The centerpiece of the event will be a performance of the groundbreaking and Grammy winning “Different Trains” by American composer Steve Reich, which combines live musical performance with pre-recorded sound, inspired by two very different sorts of World War II era train trips, one in America and and one in Europe. Also included will be works by Erwin Schulhoff, the great Austro-Czech composer whose life was cut short at the Würzburg prison camp in 1942, the beloved German composer Felix Mendelssohn, who was the grandson of the influential Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, as well as the revered composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
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- Sunday : 2-3:30 p.m.
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