JMIINTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR SUPPRESSED MUSIC President Sir Simon Rattle The International Forum for Suppressed Music [IFSM) was established in September 1999, by the Jewish Music Institute [JMI) at the School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS) University of London, as a plat­ form to bring together all those working in the field of suppressed music. Its early focus is on composers who suffered under the Third Reich, though the IFSM is also a platform for examining music under other totalitarian regimes. IFSM Projects The International Forum for Suppressed Music has embarked on a number of projects, among them, to record the oral testimony of composers and musicians of the early part of the twentieth century in Central Europe, their families and friends. It is preparing to receive the archives of musicians of the peri­ od, establishing data bases of the repertoire, developing major enterprises in the study, reconstruction, performance and recording of this music, and publishing new scholarship as well as material not hither­ to available in English. In the year 2000 IFSM held an International Conference Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the Third Reich at the University of London, focusing on the pupils of Franz Schreker, the most highly regarded composer and teacher in Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s. The establishment of this Forum, and the development of its work, is endeavouring to meet the needs of audiences, musicians, promoters and scholars the world over. IFSM Newsletter IFSM publishes a quarterly email Newsletter bringing information to 500 musicians, musicologists, writ­ ers, critics and festival organisers worldwide, of matters relating to suppressed music. To subscribe please email ifsmrajmi.org.uk with the subject line 'subscribe to newsletter'. The two published Newsletters are now available on the IFSM pages of the Jewish Music Institute website: www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic. Many reconstruction projects are lined up and awaiting funding to set them in motion. If you would like to help, please telephone Michael Haas at IFSM 02078984308. Executive Committee Michael Haas, Executive Producer 'Entartete Musik' Series, Decca Erik Levi, Royal Holloway University of London Alexander Knapp, Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London Lloyd Moore, Boosey and Hawkes Martin Anderson, Toccata Press Geraldine Auerbach MBE, Director, Jewish Music Institute, SOAS Advisory Board Brendan G Carroll, International Korngold Society Evelyn Chi -Yi Chan, Friends of Schreker/Weigl Foundation, Paris Albrecht DUmling, Musica Reanimata and 'Entartete Musik' Exhibition Curator, Berlin Christopher Hailey, Franz Schreker Foundation LA and Schoenberg In stitut, Vienna Martin SchUssler, Rathaus Foundation, New York, Berlin Patrons Vilem Tausky, Matthias Goerne, John Mauceri Contact International Forum for Suppressed Music Jewish Music Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1 H OXG T +44 [0)20 7898 4308 F +44 [0)20 7898 4309 E ifsmrajmi.org.uk http://www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic Thwarted Voices Music Suppressed by the Third Reich Presented by the JMI International Forum for Suppressed Music Patron and Host: Barry Humphries 'It is hoped that as we get more acquainted with them, the works by these composers who contributed so much to the development of 20th century music will continue to enter the mainstream of musical life} Sir Simon Rattle, President, JMI Intern ational Forum for Suppressed Music Six events: Sunday 25 November 2001, 1 0.00am-1 O.OOpm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room Preface by Geraldine Auerbach MBE 1 Thwarted Voices: an introduction by Michael Haas 1 10.00am Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer: Talk by Michael Haas 2 11.30am Purcell Room: Lieder Recital, Christian Immler, baritone, Erik Levi, piano 3 2.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall: Max Brand's Opera, Maschinist Hopkins 5 5.00pm Purcell Room: Vienna Piano Trio 11 8.00pm Purcell Room: Cafe Berlin, Eva Meier and Conor Linehan 13 8.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall: Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra Ronan Magill, guest soloist 17 All day Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer: Klub Zwei, an invitation to contribute your thoughts about suppressed music on video 21 COs of music by composers featured in Thwarted Voices are available from JMO Call 01323 832863 email [email protected] or see http://www.jmi.org.ukljmd TilE JC FES'rlVAL OF • • n~ WISII ARTS &C ULTUltR Im! austrian cultural forum 'On z JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE SOAS Honorary Joint Presidents Hon Developmen t Boa rd Trustees Lady Solti Or Margaret Brearley Lady Lipworth Leopold de Rothschild CBE Mr Walter Goldsmith Jonathon Lyons Sir Jeremy Isaacs Jarvis Astaire Honorary Vic e Presi dents The Rt Hon Baroness Ni cholson Jennifer Jankel Oavid and Tanya Josefowitz Sir Bernard Rix QC Sylvia Lewin Mr Norman Rosenthal Mildred Loss Founder Fellows Mr Julian Shuckburgh Malcolm Troup Bertie and Ooris Black Rabbi Norman Soloma n Emeri tu s Professor of Music. 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Boa rd of Deputies of Bntl sh Jews Malcolm Williamson OA Master of th e Qu een's Music Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the Third Reich Preface by Geraldine Auerbach MBE Director, Jewish Music Institute Co-ordinator JMI International Forum for Suppressed Music According to our patron and host, Barry Humphries, Hitler gave Australia coffee and chamber music - it was just a tea- and beer­ drinking society before the refugees from Nazi Germany brought European culture. When the Rabbi of the Melbourne Synagogue, who had earlier been the Rabbi at the Berlin Liberal Synagogue before it was burned down, played him his recordings of Krenek's Jonny spielt Auf and Max Brand's Maschinist Hopkins Barry immediately recognised them as the exciting popular hits that they once were and became passionate about the music of the inter­ war period in Weimar Germany. He was fascinated by scores he Michael Haas with Berthold Goldschmidt found in second-hand bookshops in Melbourne of music by Schreker, Zemlinsky, Korngold and many of the other composers Thwarted Voices: an introduction by Michael Haas featured today. Being familiar with such names, he was surprised to find when he came to Europe, that no one had heard of them. Sitting in a concert of music from the second half of the twentieth The Nazis, it seemed, had done a pretty good job. century, it's easy to wonder how come its language is so chal­ By being host of Thwarted Voices, Barry Humphries joins the JMI lenging and often, difficult to comprehend. As we look at the International Forum for Suppressed Music in its mission to bring beginning of the last century, we find a surge towards modernism, the music of these composers back to the concert halls and opera but in parallel, we find a slow organic development in a much less houses, from where it was so suddenly and brutally removed. In aggressive and confrontational idiom. Indeed, after the First World this way we may come to understand how twentieth-century War, Weimar Republic Germany became the capital of musical European music was developing until it was torn apart.