Concert Isabelle Durin & Michaël Ertzscheid: Exile to Hollywood

*This event will take place in English*

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the antisemitism of totalitarian regimes compelled many Jewish composers from Central and Eastern Europe into exile. Fleeing pogroms and persecution, they settled in the United States—the new Promised Land—and found their way to Hollywood. Musicians such as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Bronisław Kaper, Irving Berlin, and Dimitri Tiomkin established their distinctive musical voice there. Trained in the European classical tradition, they fused it with American culture and the idioms of jazz. Bridging the legacy of the “world of yesterday” and the spirit of modernity, they helped shape the art of film scoring and left an enduring imprint on Hollywood’s Golden Age (1930s–1960s).

Program

Max STEINER (1888 - 1971) : A Summer Place - 1959

Max STEINER : Gone with the Wind - 1939

Max STEINER : Jezebel Waltz / Jezebel - 1938

Irving BERLIN (1888 - 1989) : Blue Skies / The Jazz Singer - 1927

Irving BERLIN : There’s No Business Like Show Business / Annie Get Your Gun) 1950

Dimitri TIOMKIN (1894 - 1979) : Dial M for M**der 1954

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD (1897 - 1957) : The Prince and the Pauper Suite - 1937

Bronisław KAPER (1902 - 1983) : The Brothers Karamazov - 1958

Franz WAXMAN (1906 - 1967) : The Bride of Frankenstein Suite - 1935

FRANZ WAXMAN : A Place in the Sun Suite - 1951

Franz WAXMAN : Rear Window theme (Lisa) / Rear Window - 1954

Franz WAXMAN : The Ride to Dubno / Taras Bulba - 1962

Miklós RÓZSA (1907 - 1995) : Ben-Hur Suite - 1959

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