Music in Exile

Music in Exile. January 15th, 2020 HPC Chamber Series DePaul University Tickets and information: http://bit.ly/musicexile The concert marks the anniversary of the premiere of Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, held on this date in 1941 at the Stalag VIII-A prison camp, where the composer was interned and where the work - a staggering testament to the resilience of the human spirit - was composed.  Paul Ben-Haim, born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, fled Germany as the Nazis came to power to settle in what would become the State of Israel. There, he was the driving force in creating a new musical language that melded local melodic influences with European forms and techniques, of which his 1939 Variations on a Hebrew Melody are a clear example. The maverick Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff is represented by his pre-war Duo for Violin and Cello. Over the course of his prolific career, cut tragically short by the Nazis, his music featured elements of Folk, Expressionism, Neoclassicism, and even Dada and American Jazz.