"Our opinion," Bartok wrote, "is that such questions are wrong and illegal…we must insist on having nothing to do with. In a letter quoted by Shapreau, he execrated "the notorious questionnaire" whose inquiries he said included "'Are you of German blood, or kindred race, or non-Aryan?'" This disgusted Bela Bartok, a non-Jewish Hungarian represented by AKM. Shapreau writes that AKM first tried to identify Jews in its midst by sending a questionnaire to its artist roster, asking members to state their religious and racial background. Shapreau says that the red-lined booklet was Austrian music authorities' first try at finding the Jewish element, so it was prone to errors and omissions that they would subsequently correct. Conductor-composer Alexander Zemlinsky, a leading figure on the European classical music scene, also was passed over. resident was the Oscar-winning score to the 1938 hit "The Adventures of Robin Hood."Īlso on the list - but not expunged in red - is one of the most famous Jewish composers of all time, Irving Berlin, whose Austrian rights were handled by AKM. With the Nazi takeover, Korngold no longer could shuttle back and forth to keep up his film composing in Hollywood and his concert-music career in Europe. Perhaps the best-known name slashed in red in the Vienna composers' index is Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who by 1938, when the Nazis absorbed Austria, already had made a mark in Hollywood as a pioneer of symphonic film scores. The foundation's website serves as a clearinghouse for information about musicians and music banned by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945. music conservatory, where OREL recently hosted an international symposium with performances and scholarly presentations about music and the Holocaust. Opera in 2006 is now based at the Colburn School, a downtown L.A. The "Recovered Voices" series of concerts of suppressed music he began at L.A. It's an outgrowth of Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon's ongoing effort to perform works by composers the Nazis had banned. OREL Foundation exists to make the music of composers such as Joseph Beer resound again. But there's something uncanny about being able to see the moment in which he was marked for creative erasure. It's not news that her father was blacklisted and his career destroyed, she said. "This is so emotional for me," Beer said. ![]() She'd heard about the list but hadn't seen it. Beer was already late for a recent rehearsal in Philadelphia when a reporter reached her to ask about Shapreau's findings.
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