Re: The opera "Central Park"

[Khupenikes <Khupenikes...>]

> ...and the music may/should sound "like the music of 1938 Germany" whatever 
that means. May/Should it sound like general Jewish-German of the period?   
Do we mean Kurt Weill type of Jewish-German music? etc.<

I doubt that the more secular Jewish-German music from 20th century really 
sounded recognizably Jewish. Besides classical music, most people will have 
listened to Schlager, light classical music etc. Of course there were a lot 
of Jewish artists (Friedrich Hollaender, Comedian Harmonists, to name the 
most popular ones), but they were not performing/composing Jewish, or even 
Jewish-flavoured, music.
Kurt Weill?s different, but only became popular for his hit songs (Brecht).

You most probably could find some cantorial recordings etc. at Jewish homes, 
but these were not specifically German-Jewish.
Most Jewish-German families would strive after leading a perfect bourgeois 
life, and that goes with listening to classical European music, be the 
composer Jewish or not.

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