Holocaust Commemoration and Cultural Mobility
Presented by: University of CalgaryCategory: Other Event
Price: $0
Date: March 6, 2015 – March 6, 2015
Address: 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/
Holocaust Commemoration and Cultural Mobility: Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe Schoenberg’s brief Holocaust cantata (1947) seemed calculated to irritate every exposed nerve of postwar Europe: a twelve-tone piece in three languages about the Holocaust, it was written for an American audience by a newly naturalized American citizen, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been the Nazis’ prime exemplar of degenerate music. This talk focuses on Schoenberg’s distinctive representation of the Holocaust and the various meanings that accrued to the piece as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War.
Location:
Craigie Hall Block D – CHD 420
Speaker:
Joy H. Calico (Max Kade Center for European and German Studies)
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/holocaust-commemoration-and-cultural-mobility