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The forced migration of artists and scholars from Nazi Germany is a compelling and often wrenching story. The story is twofold, of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this eminent collection, which approaches the subject from diverse perspectives, including documentary-style newspaper accounts and an exploration of Walt Whitman's poetry in the work of Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.
The flood of musical migration from Germany and Austria from 1933 to 1944 had a lasting impact. Hundreds of musicians and...

Schoenberg's quartets and trio, composed over a nearly forty-year period, occupy a central position among twentieth-century chamber music. This volume, based on papers presented at a conference in honour of David Lewin, collects a wide range of approaches to Schoenberg's pieces. The first part of the book provides a historical context to these works, examining Viennese quartet culture and traditions, Webern's reception of Schoenberg's Second Quartet, Schoenberg's view of the Beethoven quartets, and the early reception of Schoenberg's First Quartet. The second part examines musical issues of...

Gerechtigkeit ist ein Thema, das Konjunktur hat, was darauf hinweist, dass in unserer Gesellschaft vielfach Ungerechtigkeit empfunden wird. Was aber ist Gerechtigkeit, und kann es sie berhaupt geben? Diesen Fragen sind das Kulturzentrum zakk und der Fachbereich Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften der Fachhochschule Dsseldorf in einer gemeinsamen Veranstaltungsreihe nachgegangen. In diesem Band finden sich dazu im Ergebnis Ausfhrungen aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen und praxisbezogenen Perspektiven.