The LLC Speaker Series presents … Joy Calico

“Holocaust Commemoration and Cultural Mobility: Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe” Joy Calico (Max Kade Center for European and German Studies) speaks as part of our LLC Speaker Series on “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. http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/16602/the-provocative-history-of-arnold-scho… https://llc.ucalgary.ca/event/2015-11-27/llc-speaker-series-presents

Location:

Craigie Hall – CHD 420 – Language Research Centre

Speaker:

Joy Calico (Max Kade Center for European and German Studies)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/llc-speaker-series-presents-joy-calico