MON, NOV 21, 7:30 PM Performance
FREE
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Karol Rathaus (1895–1954) was born in Tarnopol (now Ternopil in Ukraine) into a Polish-Jewish family. He was educated in Vienna and Berlin and was a student of Franz Schreker. He taught composition in Berlin, left Europe where his compositions were classifed as “degenerate art” by the Nazis, and came to the United States in 1938, landing in Flushing, Queens, to become the first professor of composition in the Music Department of the newly created Queens College, City University of New York (now, the Aaron Copland School of Music). This concert celebrates his music and his legacy that emigrated to the United States.
“Emigration”
Sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute New York
Works by Kassern, Mandelbaum, Palester, Rathaus, Schober, Tansman, Waghalter, Weinberg
Performed by Magdalena Filipczak, violin; Monika Gardon-Preinl, piano; Piotr Lato, clarinet; Grzegorz Mania, piano;
and guest artists Alice Jones, flute, and Sarah Song, cello.
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