Glance at Culture - Terezín Music Foundation: Mark Ludwig on his new book Our Will To Live, Social Justice and the Holocaust

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To learn more, please visit the websites of Terezín Music Foundation and its project Our Will to Live.
SHOW NOTES:
00:02:45 Foundation of Terezín Music Foundation

00:06:30 Our Will To Live

00:08:30 Ullmann as guide through Terezin’s cultural community

00:09:35 Otto Weininger

00:12:20 Ullmann’s essays on Sigmund Schul included in Our Will To Live

00:13:30 Ullmann’s critiques of Carman and Verdi’s Requiem

00:14:45 Viktor Frankl

00:18:40 Council of Elders member Karel Herman

00:22:50 smuggling musical instruments

00:24:55 Ullmann’s critique of performance by Karel Švenk

00:26:05 knowledge of environment and history of creators enriches understanding of their work

00:26:10 George Horner

00:29:15 Yo-Yo Ma’s work with TMF

00:30:45 Yo-Yo Ma and George Horner’s performance at Boston’s Symphony Hall

00:32:45 Ludwig’s performance of Klein’s Lullabye for Dalai Lama at US Capital and in Sarajevo after seige

00:33:20 Our Will To Live as a work of historical justice

00:33:50 Primo Levy’s The Drowned and The Saved

00:35:00 How tracks for Our Will To Live were choosen

00:35:40 Karel Berman's performance of “A Sleepless Night” from Four Songs on Chinese poetry

00:36:00 cabaret works by Karel Svenk

00:37:15 Tracks of the month by OWTL

00:38:15 TMF’s ‘Finding A Voice’ program curriculum

00:39:55 enabling individuals to find their voice

00:40:50 social justice and the voice of society

00:41:20 voices of Ullmann, Hans Krása, Gideon Klein

00:42:05 Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

00:44:50 Pavel Haas’ “A Sleepless Night” from Four Songs on Chinese Poetry

00:46:20 Gideon Klein’s String Trio, Second movement

00:46:55 Ullmann’s Third String Quartet

00:47:40 Hans Krása’s children's opera Brundibar

00:48:10 Krása’s Passacaglia and Fugue for String Trio

00:48:50 Picasso’s Guernica

00:49:30 Ullmann’s Don Quixote Overture

00:51:10 TMF’s legacy

00:55:40 Track 27 Viktor Ullmann, Third String Quartet [13:38] (Terezín, 1943)
performed by Hawthorne String Quartet

01:09:45 Track 11 Gideon Klein, String Trio, Movement II — Theme and Variations [07:17] (Terezín, 1944), performed by Ronan Lefkowitz, violin; Mark Ludwig, viola; Sato Knudsen, cello

01:17:45 Track 12 Gideon Klein, String Trio, Movement III — Molto Vivace [03:04] (Terezín, 1944) performed by Ronan Lefkowitz, violin; Mark Ludwig, viola; Sato Knudsen, cello

01:21:05 Track 16 Pavel Haas, Four Songs on Chinese Poetry (for Karel Berman) “A Sleepless Night” (Han Yu [14:11] (Terezín, 1944) performed by Karel Berman, baritone, and Přemsyl Charnát, piano, November 1991 Czech Radio broadcast of a concert featuring Terezín composers in the Jewish Town Hall, Prague.

01:25:10 Track 29 Karel Švenk, “Why Does the Black Man Sit at the Back of the Car?” [01:16] (Terezín, 1943) Arrangement by David L. Post; performed by Thomas Martin, clarinet, and Hawthorne String Quartet
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