Songs and Suppression: A Musical Journey out of Exile

Through an exploratory program of art songs by Jewish-German composers, pianist Constanze Beckmann and baritone Samuel Chan explore topics of xenophobia, racism, exile, and personal and artistic suppression through the contrasting musical styles of the late Romanticism of Walter Braunfels and the serialism, atonalism, and jazz influences of Hanns Eisler’s Hollywood Songbook. This program explores the musical and artistic language of these two com...