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Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti fled the anti-Semitism and harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. He found refuge in Switzerland during the Second World War where, prohibited from conducting, he earned a living as a pianist.
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ALT Portrait of conductor Georg Solti
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Doctor Fritz Lettow was born #OTD in 1904. He composed the song "Am Berghang so hoch da droben" clandestinely in Buchenwald. He wrote a book about his experiences in the concentration camps.
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ALT Portrait of Fritz Lettow
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Check out this video from our show in Calgary at the Grey Eagle Casino & Resort!
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Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson begleitet die Berliner Philharmoniker und Kirill Petrenko auf dieser Tournee als Solist in Brahms’ Klavierkonzert Nr. 1. In der Carnegie Hall in New York spricht er über die rohe Schönheit und herausfordernde Haltung des Werks:
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Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring (1945) pays tribute to rural life in early America, with the familiar Shaker melody, “Simple Gifts”, among its most memorable moments. digitalconcerthall.com/conce…
Watch the full concert, conducted by Marin Alsop, in the Digital Concert Hall!
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📯 Bells Up, Bogotá! Join the Berliner Philharmoniker horn players at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia for a very special horn flash mob, organised by the horn section from the @filarmonibogota with 90 Colombian horn players.
🎥 Mascha Vannier
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Violinist and teacher of violin and piano, Toni Weigmann was born #OTD in 1891. She survived deportation to Terezin and lived in Dresden until her death in 1974. Her son, Horst, tried to save her by impersonating a Gestapo officer and was hanged.
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ALT Obituary notice for Horst-Siegfried Weigmann, son of violinist Toni Weigmann
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On 17 October 1996 emigre composer Berthold Goldschmidt died in London at the age of 93. He had lived at the same ground floor flat (at 13b Belsize Crescent) since leaving Germany to flee the Nazis in October 1935.
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ALT Portrait of composer Berthold Goldschmidt
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German-American composer, conductor and music critic Arthur Holde was born #OTD in 1885. Until 1936 he was choirmaster for the main synagogue in Frankfurt. In 1937 he exiled to New York where he also worked as a choirmaster and music critic.
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ALT Portrait of composer, conductor and music critic Arthur Holde
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Musician and arranger Leopold Bilko who established melodies for religious and funerary songs was arrested #OTD in 1939. Interned in Rawicz, Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Dachau he would eventually survive the war.
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ALT Portrait of musician and arranger Leopold Bilko
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Edith Russak (born #OTD in 1895) was a piano teacher, an accompanist and sang in the choir of the Synagogue. She emigrated together with her husband to Paris in 1939 where they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz in Sep 1942.
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ALT Record of Edith Russak's deportation from Drancy
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After spending several years in Terezin being active in its musical life, Hans Krasa left for Auschwitz #OTD in 1944 together with his fellow composers Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein.
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ALT Portrait of composer Hans Krása
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Czech composer Pavel Haas was deported to Auschwitz #OTD in 1944, and died in the gas chambers. #NeverForget
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ALT Colourised portrait of Czech composer Pavel Haas
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🎺🎶 One of the great orchestral showpieces: Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra is on tour with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and today it’s on the programme in Bogotá. Watch Kirill Petrenko conduct it earlier this month in the Digital Concert Hall.
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#OTD in 1943 several hundred inmates fought against the superior strength and weapons of Nazi SS and Ukrainian guards. Fifty of those men and women survived and their reports provide some insight into the cultural activities that took place in Sobibór.
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ALT Participants in the 1943 Sobibór uprising
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Alexander Zemlinsky (born #OTD in 1871) was an Austrian composer, conductor and teacher. His pupils included Korngold, Krása, Berg, Webern and Weigl. He fled Germany in 1933 reaching the USA in 1938, but he did not flourish and he was almost forgotten.
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ALT Portrait of composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky
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🎻🎶 Kirill Petrenko first conducted Elgar with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2009. This year he opened his eighth season with the Enigma Variations – watch it in the Digital Concert Hall. Today the orchestra plays in Bogotá, with Elgar on the programme. digitalconcerthall.com/conce…
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Beethoven's Violin concerto by Itzhak Perlman and the Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin, 1992.
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In Memoriam Otto Joachim
Düsseldorf 13 Oct 1910
He was also the violist in the Montreal String Quartet.
Here in the Piano Quintet, op. 34, by J. Brahms.
The pianist was Glenn Gould, Joachim's friend and habitual collaborator.
Rec. August 1957, Montréal
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Canadian violist and composer Otto Joachim was born #OTD in 1910 in Germany. In 1934 he escaped to Shanghai where he opened a radio shop and experimented with electronic instruments. He left China for Montreal in 1949 when Communism took over.
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ALT Portrait of violist and composer Otto Joachim