Is the story of violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who, in 1936, selected 70 of the best Jewish musicians fired by the Nazis, and moved them to Palestine to form the future Israel Philharmonic, saving them from the Holocaust.
לאופולד קוזלובסקי, אחרון הכליזמרים מהתקופה שלפני המלחמה בפולין ומי שנשאר בפולין והפך להיות האיש ששומר, מחייה ומשמר את מוסיקת הכליזמר היהודית, הגיע לישראל ב-2007 לקונצרט מיוחד שנערך לכבודו עם תזמורת סימפונט רעננה בשיתוף הרשות הלאומית לתרבות יידיש, שגרירות פולין בישראל ואגודת ידידות ישראל- פולין.
Concert of Jewish liturgical music “5770”, devoted to the Jewish New 5770 year took place on September 10, 2009 in Latvian National Opera. Participants: male's choir "Balsis" with program "Melodies of the Burned Synagogues" (art director Z. Shulman), choir "Hassidic Capella", conductor A. Tsalyuk, cantor of Riga Choral Synagogue Zeev Shulman, soloists of the Bolshoy Theater, Liepaja Symphonic Orchestra. In the program - Jewish cantors’ music, fragments from operas, popular Jewish songs. Among more than 1 200 visitors there were representatives of Daugavpils, Liepaja, Rezekne, Jekabpils, as well as...
Yale Strom traveled to Eastern Europe to search for remnants of klezmer music (Jewish folk melodies) that survived the Holocaust such as recordings, sheet music and klezmer musicians. In this program he interviews and travels with Leopold Kozlowski, the last klezmer, who grew up in the tradition. Special mention, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival.
This documentary, produced by Decca Record Company (London), film provides an orientation to the music of Jewish and avant-garde composers whose works were banned under the Third Reich. It includes interviews with composers, conductors and musicologists. The film also contains contemporary footage of Weimar Germany and Hollywood in the 1930s and '40s.
The moral dilemma (explored in Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides) that faced prominent musicians whose careers flourished under the Third Reich such as Richard Strauss, Carloff and Furtwangler was also an issue that confronted hallowed musical institutions such as the Berlin Philharmonic as explored in this fascinating documentary by Enrique Sanchez Lansch. From 1933 to 1945. Financed by the German Reich and answerable directly to the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, the Berlin Philharmonic was not only Germany’s flagship orchestra; it also became an ambassador for the National Socialist...
BBC Television Special presenting works of Bach, Chopin and others by musicians in different places in Auschwitz. The programme was broadcast in memory of the camp’s victims and includes interviews with survivors of the orchestra who had to play for the SS. Winner of the BAFTA Wheldon Award (British Film Award) and the Emmy in the Arts Programming category.
This drama takes places in Berlin, occupied by the allies at the end of the Second World War.
The story is based on the character of Wilhelm Furtwangler, who was the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conductor in the 1930s and focuses on the question of the place of the artist in an illegal totalitarian regime. An American officer (Harvey Keitel) is sent to investigate the great German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler (Stellan Skarsgard) in the matter of his support for the Nazi regime. In a time when other artists were forced to leave Germany, Furtwangler chose to stay in his homeland and to continue in his...
