THE LONG IMPACT OF VIENNESE MODERNISM

Join us for the concert The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism – Verhinderte Vielfalt / Forbidden Songs performed by Soprano and pianist and a pre-concert lecture by Professor Oliver Rathkolb titled Persecuted and Outlawed Austrian Composers Part I.

This event is part of a two-day conference of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA), the Vienna Library in the Town Hall, and ORF.Topos.at (Austrian Public TV), in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. On this page you will find the musical program of the concert The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism. Lieder und Kinderlieder gegen Ausgrenzung und Verfolgung / Children‘s Songs and Forbidden Songs from Persecuted Composers.

Evening Program

Pre-concert Lecture by Univ.-Prof. Oliver Rathkolb: Persecuted and Outlawed Austrian Composers Part I

Ivan Eröd (1936-2019): Milktooth Songs Op17, 1973 (Text Richard Bletschacher)

The Bear-guide
Marriage-planning
Lullaby
Merry-go-round

Alma Schindler-Mahler (1879-1964) aus: Fünf Lieder (1910)

Die stille Stadt (Richard Dehmel)
Bei dir ist es traut (Rainer M. Rilke)
Ich wandle unter Blumen (Heinrich Heine)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), from the song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Clemens Brentano/Achim von Arnim)

Rheinlegendchen
Des Anton von Padua Fischpredigt 1893
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht

Lecture by Univ.-Prof. Oliver Rathkolb Part II

Eric Zeisl (1905-1959): Children‘s Songs (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Song of Triumph (R. Dehmel)
Sunsong
On the tombstone of a little child
Song of the Hussars

E.W. Korngold (1897-1957)

Das Ständchen Op 9/3
Sommer Op 9/6

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) from Five Kid Songs 1943:

I Hate Music
I just found out today

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)

Old Refrain

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