Conference with Concert Series Face the Music
Vienna, May 3 - 5, 2006
The project Face the Music - A Tribute to Persecuted Musicians and Suppressed Music in Totalitarian Regimes of 20th Century Europe by the Platform Culture - Central Europe aims at gaining an overview of musicians and music persecuted and suppressed by totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century in Central Europe. Taking stock of the state of contemporary research the project should reveal existing deficits and seeks to encourage further research towards a 'European narrative of the 20th Century' (Rathkolb) in order to return this music to the place and appreciation it duly deserves.
In this context, the word 'musicians' includes composers, performing artists, musicologist, critics and other professionals in the field of music.
Using the term 'persecuted musicians' and 'suppressed music' in totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, it is necessary to make a clear distinction between persecution by National Socialism and by Communism. While for all artists censorship and suppression, persecution or exile means a profound rupture in their life and career, uprooting and threatening them, the persecution of Jewish musicians and their music by National Socialism is unique, as its prime goal was the extinction of the Jewish people. Therefore it is not comparable to 'mere' persecution for political reasons or by Communist regimes.
Not only in Austria and Germany, in every Central European country Jews fell victim to National Socialism. Apart from this group, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals and musicians who participated in resistance on political or religious grounds were persecuted. Some of them once again fell victim to persecution by hands of the communist regimes or expulsion of minorities after 1945.
Among the objectives of the conference is to clarify and discuss music as an instrument of totalitarian regimes and as a symbol for resistance and freedom, respectively.
PROGRAMME
- Wednesday May 3rd 2006
Wiener Konzerthaus - Schubertsaal (Lothringerstraße 20, 1030 Vienna)
8:00 p.m. - Opening Ceremony
Welcome Address: Ambassador Emil Brix - Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Video Message: Václav Havel - Czech Republic
Speakers: Vytautas Landsbergis – MEP, Lithuania, Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg – USA
Music: Streichtrio Klangforum Wien, Wolfgang Holzmair / Russell Ryan
Jószef Koffler String trio op. 10
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati String trio No. 1 'Ricercari'
Songs by Eric Zeisl
- Thursday May 4th 2006
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna - Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn-Saal (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna)
- 9:30 –12:30 a.m. - Lectures and Discussion Music and Musicians Persecuted by National Socialism
Welcome: Irmgard Bontinck - Vice-Chancellor University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Waltraud Dennhardt-Herzog - Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Lectures: Gerhard Scheit, Primavera Gruber – Austria, Antoni Buchner – Poland, Milan Slavicky´ - Czech Republic
Discussion Panel: János Breuer – Hungary, Zuzana Martináková – Slovakia
Chair: Oliver Rathkolb - Austria
- 1:00 p.m. - Open-air Concert in the University Courtyard
The Plastic People of the Universe - Czech Republic
Ferenc Sebo - Hungary
- 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. - Lectures and Discussion Music and Musicians Persecuted by Communism
Lectures: Tamás Szönyei – Hungary, Oskár Elschek – Slovakia, Ico Vidmar – Slovenia
Discussion Panel: Christian Glanz – Austria, Beata Boleslawska – Poland, Josef Rauvolf, Josef Vlc¡ek - Czech Republic
Chair: Lothar Knessl - Austria
- 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. - Final Discussion with Witnesses of the Era and Experts
Chair: Oliver Rathkolb - Austria
- 8:00 p.m. - Concert Joseph Haydn Saal
Silesia Quartet – Poland
Andrzej Panufnik, Alexandre Tansman
Eleonóra S¡kutová – Piano – Slovakia
Roman Berger, Vladimír Bokes, Peter Kolman, Ilja Zeljenka
- Friday May 5th 2006
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna - Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn-Saal (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna)
- 9:00 a.m. - Face the Music: Music and Persecution How do we deal with it today?
Haide Tenner - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
Peter Rantasa - Music Information Center Austria
- 9:30 a.m. - Presentation: European Platform for Music Suppressed by National Socialism
Frank Harders-Wuthenow – Germany
Primavera Gruber - Austria
- 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. - Workshops Cooperation in the Fields of Research, Concert Organization, Information Rendering
- 11:00 – 12:00 a.m. - Plenary Session European Platform for Music Suppressed by National Socialism
Chair: Philippe Olivier - France
- 3:00 p.m. - Memorial Concert
Hans Krása - Children's Opera Brundibár
Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen, Wiener Jeunesse Orchester, Herbert Böck – Conductor, With Survivor Greta Klingsberg - Israel ('Aninka' in Terezín)
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