Belatedly, Video & Reviews for Conlon's Latest "Recovered Voices" EffortJames Conlon uses his post as LA Opera music director to champion works of composers affected by the Third Reich.
LA Opera’s double bill of Viktor Ullmann’s comedy “The Broken Jug” (from a story by Heinrich von Kleist) and Alexander Zemlinsky’s tragedy “The Dwarf” (from a story by Oscar Wilde) opened on February 17.
"Courage has grown so tired, and longing so great."I recently promised to devote special attention on this site to Entartete Musik (music deemed “degenerate” in the Third Reich). My first subject is Viktor Ullmann, a composition student of Schoenberg, a conducting protege of Zemlinsky, and a leader of musical life in the Terezin concentration camp before being murdered in Auschwitz in September 1944. Our Ullmann Resource Guide is still taking shape, but I wanted to offer this unique preview from my YouTube travels.