Name: Music from Marin Chamber Players - Forced to Flee - in Mill Valley
Start: 2025-04-26T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-26T17:00:00-07:00
Location: O'Hanlon Center For the Arts

Music from Marin Chamber Players present works by some of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
About this Event

College of Marin Emeritus professor Paul Smith and Music from Marin Chamber Players present works by some of the greatest composers of the 20th century - from late 19th century romanticisc, jazz and abaret infused compositions, to the most modern musical thoughts of the day - the only common denominator being they were able to flee Vienna as the Nazis consolidated their grip over Austria in 1938. Having seen the German experience since 1933, these mostly Jewish, but also left leaning politically, free thinkers knew what was in store for them if they stayed in Vienna. Invited to Los Angeles by the major universities, and Hollywood, they found a welcoming cultural and intellectual haven away from the insanity of Europe.

Fantastic stories and fabulous music including:

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's lush Suite for Piano (left hand) and String Trio, as well as stunningly gorgeous art songs.

Arnold Schoenberg's compositions from early waltzes and polkas to cabaret songs, and then into the modernist revolution he promulgated. Hanns Eisler's Hollywood Songbook, composed in conjuntion with Bertolt Brecht, another escapee, as well as a string trio. Art songs by Alma Mahler, former wife of Gustav, and later marrried to novelist/playwright Franz Werfel. Suite for soprano and piano from Ernst Krenek's 1920's jazz opera Jonny Spielt Auf and smaller works by Eric Zeisl, Ernst Toch, and Herbert Zipper.