Music at the Wende: Long Beach Opera Presents "Hollywood Elegies"
Hanns Eisler settled in the United States in 1938 after fleeing National Socialism. In the late 1940s, he was interrogated by HUAC and blacklisted. Described as “the Karl Marx of music,” Eisler left the United States in 1948, and eventually settled in East Germany, where he composed the national anthem for the GDR. Hollywood Elegies, a program of compositions by Hanns Eisler presented by Long Beach Opera, reflects on one of the most divisive periods of the Cold War.
- Hanns Eisler - Vierzehn Arten den Regen zu beschreiben Op. 70 (Fourteen Ways of Describing the Rain) (1941)
- Hanns Eisler - Hollywood Songbook (1943)
- Hanns Eisler - Auferstanden aus Ruinen (National Anthem of the GDR) (1949)
Series supported by the Music at the Wende Donor Group.
Free.
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