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2017-12-22 16:56:00
Christmas? not! Braunfels Verkündigung medieval mystery for modern times
[…] didn't know what he was doing. Verkündigung is an allegory which makes many potent points. Peter von Ulm is an architect who raises money from believers to build cathedrals, symbols of power and unquestioning faith. Hitler wanted to build whole cities to glorify his 1000 year Reich, seducing architects like Albert Speer. Although Claudel's translator - not Braunfels himself - shifted the action in the play from France to the early medieval German city of Speyer, the irony wasn't lost on the composer., Speyer = Speer, and Peter the rock on which grand Churches are built upon, Peter von Ulm has a secret: he's a leper and he's infectious. An angelus rings from Mareinberg Tower. Inspired by the idea of sacrifice, thinking that God will protect her, Violane kisses Peter to comfort him, and contracts his disease. Violane's family and her fiancé Jakobäus, think she's been unchaste and throw her […]
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2016-12-11 14:00:54
The Panel Mediating On Objects Stolen By The Nazis Says That Yes, A Rare Violin Is In That Group
The violin disappeared after its owner, a Jewish man who ran a music business in Speyer, couldn't escape Nazi Germany and committed suicide; it reappeared in 1974.
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2016-12-10 19:23:21
German panel offers $100,000 for Nazi-looted Guarnerius
A German conciliation panel has proposed a payment of around $100,000 to heirs of a Jewish instrument dealer from Speyer who was forced to sell his 1706 Guarnerius to the Nazis at a knockdown price. Felix Hildesheimer committed suicide in 1939. His wife Helene reached the USA. The violin was bought in 1974 by the German soloist Sophie Hagemann and left on her death in 2010 to a foundation in Nuremberg for use in local concerts. The conciliation panel has valued the violin at $158,000 and proposed that two-third of this sum be paid to Mrs Hildesheimer’s grandsons. Read the Deutsche Welle report. It remains to be seen whether the Hildesheimer heirs accept the conciliation panel’s offer.
2015-07-31 17:25:15
[…] ensemble and Gershwin’s compositions share a similar approach: the connection between classical music in the broadest sense with elements of jazz. This can also be seen in the other works on this recording that the Blue Chamber Quartet play in their very own way. Here is the BLUE CHAMBER QUARTET in their interpretation of “Messiah Jazz Suite” And next, here is the Blue Chamber Quartet – performing live at IMAX, Speyer, Germany : Tags: Blue Chamber Quartet, Gershwin, Bernstein, Albeniz, Rhapsody in Blue
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