Fwd: Concert of Entartete Musik

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>From: LMGaubatz (at) aol(dot)com
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:40:02 EDT
>
>In Honor of the 95th Birthday of Composer Eric Zeisl
>
>The Church of the Annunciation presents
>
>Entartete Musik - Music Banned by the Nazis
>
>Including the world prémière of Eric Zeisl's "The Good Old Time"
>
>Lynn Gaubatz, bassoonist
>Frank Conlon, pianist
>
>
>Music by Mendelssohn, Vaughn Williams, Hindemith, Tansman, and Zeisl
>
>Thursday, May 18
>7:30 PM
>
>Admission Free
>
>Church of the Annunciation
>3810 Massachusetts Avenue NW
>Washington, DC
>(1 block west of Wisconsin Avenue)
>
>For concert information, call (703) 207-9450.
>
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>Gaubatz To Perform World Prémière Of Eric Zeisl Work
>
>WASHINGTON, DC --  American virtuoso Lynn Gaubatz of Falls Church, Virginia, 
>will perform the world prémière of Eric Zeisl's "The Good Old Time" in 
>celebration of his 95th birthday at the Church of the Annunciation, 3810 
>Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC (1 block west of Wisconsin Avenue) on 
>Thursday, May 18 at 7:30pm.  The concert will include other works for bassoon 
>[Gaubatz] and piano [Frank Conlon] by Zeisl, Alexandre Tansman, Egon Wellesz, 
>Paul Hindemith, and Karol Rathaus.  All these works are "Entartete Musik", or 
>music by composers banned in Nazi Germany.  For concert information, call 
>(703) 207-9450.
>
>"I am honored to be the first person to perform Zeisl's piece "The Good Old 
>Time", although I wish it had been performed 50 years ago when it was 
>composed.  His daughter's cooperation with my article on Zeisl's life was so 
>helpful, and when she sent me an unpublished and unperformed piece of his I 
>was really excited."  Gaubatz wrote an article about the life and music of 
>Eric Zeisl which will appear in the May edition of "Austria Kultur", the 
>magazine of the Austrian Cultural Institute.
>
>Zeisl, born May 18, 1905 in Vienna, Austria, fled Vienna the morning after 
>Kristallnacht [November 9, 1938], narrowly avoiding capture.  Settling for a 
>time in Paris, where he began his long friendship with Darius Milhaud, Zeisl 
>eventually moved to the United States, finally landing in Hollywood.  In 1945 
>he became an American citizen.  On February 18, 1959, after teaching a 
>composition theory class at Los Angeles City College, Zeisl suffered a fatal 
>heart attack.  Much of his work remains unpublished and unheard.
>
>Gaubatz was the only musician invited to perform at the International 
>Holocaust Conference in Vienna, Austria in 1999, where she performed a solo 
>work by exiled Viennese composer Egon Wellesz at the official reception given 
>by the Burgermeister of Vienna.  Through her research into the lives and work 
>of composers whose work was labeled "Entartete Musik" [degenerate music] 
>because it was created by Jewish composers or dissidents, Gaubatz is 
>uncovering and performing music that was banned by Hitler, much of it never 
>before published or performed.
>
>Lynn Gaubatz is a name familiar to audiences around the world.  Named "One of 
>America's Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women" by GLAMOUR Magazine, 
>Gaubatz has performed as soloist in Europe, North and South America, and 
>Africa.  Her critically-acclaimed performances of Mozart's "Bassoon Concerto" 
>have been broadcast on three continents by PBS, Radio Nacional de Espana, and 
>Radio Nacional de Venezuela, and she's the only bassoonist ever to have a 
>recital broadcast worldwide by The Voice of America.  She is also the only 
>bassoon soloist ever featured at the Smithsonian Institution's "Art of the 
>Virtuosi" and "The Concert Experience" in Washington, DC.
>
>She has played as principal bassoonist under Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, 
>Sir Georg Solti and others, with orchestras in Austria, Germany, Spain, 
>Venezuela and the U.S.  She has performed at music festivals around the 
>world, including Tanglewood, Aspen, and Wolf Trap, where she played the 
>bassoon on stage in costume in Mozart's "Don Giovanni".  She taught at the 
>world-renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria from 1982 to 1984, and has 
>given master classes in Salzburg, Seville, Malaga, Caracas, Boston, 
>Washington, Madison, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe.
>
>Gaubatz has been invited to perform again in March 2001 at an international 
>Peace Prize ceremony in Norway.  On March 12, 1999, Gaubatz was the featured 
>soloist at the ceremony during which Carmel Budiardjo, the 1995 recipient of 
>the alternative Nobel Peace Prize (Right Livelihood Award) and leader of 
>Tapol (an organisation which supports political prisoners and fights for 
>human rights in Indonesia) awarded an international Peace Prize to East 
>Timorese Student Leader Antero B. da Silva. Gaubatz also performed as an 
>introduction to the March 13, 1999 speech of Ms. Jasmind Sooka from South 
>Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the commission established to 
>help South Africa deal with its post-apartheid era problems.
>
>For more information:  http://members.aol.com/mozartsalz/gaubatz.html

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