The next concert in the Dodson Music Series will take place on Friday January 27th at 12:00 pm in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
“Entartete Musik – music suppressed under Nazism” will consist of music by composers who were suppressed during the Third Reich. “Entartete Musik” was a term used by the Nazis to defame atonal music, jazz, and works by Jewish composers as “degenerate”.
The targeted composers included Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Weill, Goldschmidt, and Waxman. Many of them emigrated to the United States, and some had illustrious careers as film music composers in Hollywood.
Students of the UBC School of Music will present a varied programme of vocal and instrumental music by Messiaen, Zemlinsky, and Schulhoff. They will offer a view into the musical world of Weimar Germany, and the artistry in defiance of oppression that was the musical world of Nazi concentration camps.
The concert series is directed by Leah Giselle Field. Admission is free.