- Summary
- This book introduces readers to a woman who truly persisted. Anneliese Landau pushed past bias to earn a PhD in musicology in 1930. She then lectured on early German radio, breaking new ground in a developing medium. After the Nazis forced the firing of all Jews in broadcasting in early 1933, Landau worked for a time in the Berlin Jewish Culture League (Jüdischer Kulturbund), a closed cultural organization created by and for Jews in negotiation with Hitler's regime. But, in 1939, she would emigrate alone, the fate of her family members tied separately to the Kindertransport and to the Terezín concentration camp. Landau eventually settled in Los Angeles, assuming duties as music director of the Jewish Centers Association in 1944. In this role, she knew and worked with many significant historical figures, among them the composer Arnold Schoenberg, the conductor Bruno Walter, and the renowned rabbi and philosopher Leo Baeck. Anneliese Landau's Life in Music offers fresh perspective on the Nazi period in Germany as well as on music in southern California, impacted as it was by the many notable émigrés from German-speaking lands who settled in the area. But the book, the first to study Landau's life in full, is also a unique story of survival: an account of one woman's confrontation with other people's expectations of her, as a woman and a Jew.
- Series
- Eastman studies in music
Eastman studies in music ; v. 152.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Hirsch, Lily E., 1979- author.
- Published
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019
©2019
- Contents
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Preface: the black thread. Part 1 : Standing up
Loss and gain
Her Berlin
On the air. Part 2 : An end and a beginning
The Jewish culture league
Jewish music in Nazi Germany
Kristallnacht
Kindertransport. Part 3 : Leaving again
Judaism in music revisited
Forbidden music
The pull west. Part 4 : The Jewish community center
International composers
Making music after war
A Cold War in the sun
Spotlighting composers
Back to Europe
Going places. Part 5 : valley of the dismissed?
At her desk
In memoriam. Conclusion: "I was there." Notes
Index.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: the black thread. Part 1 : Standing up -- Loss and gain -- Her Berlin -- On the air. Part 2 : An end and a beginning -- The Jewish culture league -- Jewish music in Nazi Germany -- Kristallnacht -- Kindertransport. Part 3 : Leaving again -- Judaism in music revisited -- Forbidden music -- The pull west. Part 4 : The Jewish community center -- International composers -- Making music after war -- A Cold War in the sun -- Spotlighting composers -- Back to Europe -- Going places. Part 5 : valley of the dismissed? -- At her desk -- In memoriam. Conclusion: "I was there." Notes -- Index.
