Time's Echo The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
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Jeremy Eichler
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9780525521716
- 29 augustus 2023
- 400 pagina's
Jeremy Eichler
"Jeremy Eichler is criticus, essayist en cultuurhistoricus met een specialisatie in muziek. Hij schreef onder meer voor The New York Times, The New Yorker en The Washington Post en is een veelgevraagd spreker en gastdocent aan universiteiten. Sinds 2006 is hij hoofdcriticus klassieke muziek bij The Boston Globe.
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A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past
In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal Ode to Joy, he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals. Beethovens Ninth Symphony then gave wing to Schillers words, but barely a century later these same words were claimed by Nazi propagandists and twisted by a barbarism so complete that it ruptured, as one philosopher put it, the deep layer of solidarity among all who wear a human face.
When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Times Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler makes a passionate and revelatory case for the power of music as cultures memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past.
With a critics ear, a scholars erudition, and a novelists eye for detail, Eichler shows how four towering composersRichard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Brittenlived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time. Summoning the supporting testimony of writers, poets, philosophers, musicians, and everyday citizens, Eichler reveals how the essence of an entire epoch has been inscribed in these sounds and stories. Along the way, he visits key locations central to the musics creation, from the ruins of Coventry Cathedral to the site of the Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv.
As the living memory of the Second World War fades, Times Echo proposes new ways of listening to history, and learning to hear between its notes the resonances of what another era has written, heard, dreamed, hoped, and mourned. A lyrical narrative full of insight and compassion, this book deepens how we think about the legacies of war, the presence of the past, and the renewed promise of art for our lives today.
In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal Ode to Joy, he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals. Beethovens Ninth Symphony then gave wing to Schillers words, but barely a century later these same words were claimed by Nazi propagandists and twisted by a barbarism so complete that it ruptured, as one philosopher put it, the deep layer of solidarity among all who wear a human face.
When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Times Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler makes a passionate and revelatory case for the power of music as cultures memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past.
With a critics ear, a scholars erudition, and a novelists eye for detail, Eichler shows how four towering composersRichard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Brittenlived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time. Summoning the supporting testimony of writers, poets, philosophers, musicians, and everyday citizens, Eichler reveals how the essence of an entire epoch has been inscribed in these sounds and stories. Along the way, he visits key locations central to the musics creation, from the ruins of Coventry Cathedral to the site of the Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv.
As the living memory of the Second World War fades, Times Echo proposes new ways of listening to history, and learning to hear between its notes the resonances of what another era has written, heard, dreamed, hoped, and mourned. A lyrical narrative full of insight and compassion, this book deepens how we think about the legacies of war, the presence of the past, and the renewed promise of art for our lives today.
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