Der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg als Außenseiter-Drama im Amerika zu Beginn der 60er-Jahre: Regisseur Matthew Wild zeigt bei der Neuproduktion in Frankfurt einen schwulen Künstler, der an seiner Neigung zugrunde geht, was keineswegs ausschließlich die Schuld der Gesellschaft ist. Das ist spannend, zeitgemäß und musikalisch elektrisierend.
Mar 2022
Uwe Schütte, "Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany" (Penguin, 2021)
Uwe Schütte's Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany (Penguin, 2021) is not your typical rock star biography. Eschewing gossipy interpersonal details, Schütte instead contextualizes Kraftwerk within contemporaneous debates about German cultural identity in the wake of Nazi atrociti ... Show More
54m 13s
Aug 2021
The Degenerates: Music Suppressed by the Nazis
From the end of WWI until 1933, classical music in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe was flourishing, with composers such as Zemlinsky, Weill, Krenek, Korngold, Schreker, Schulhoff, Haas, Krasa, and Ullmann writing spectacularly innovative and thrilling music. The Nazis exiled ... Show More
1h 1m
Jul 2021
The Power of Classical Music
Leon Bosch reflects on the power of classical music to transform lives, beginning with his own. He overcame the obstacles of racism in apartheid era South Africa to study the classical double bass. Despite encountering prejuduce in the UK, too, after moving here to study, he went ... Show More
27m 45s