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Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers

JL;DR SUMMARY Jeanne Golan, a New York pianist, has dedicated the past 15 years to the 'recovered voices' movement, recording music by composers persecuted by the Nazis. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Nazi PersecutionHolocaust RemembranceJewish ComposersTerezinViktor UllmannMieczyslaw WeinbergJeanne GolanRecovered VoicesWalter KaufmannMusical Heritage

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New York, United States
"For the last 15 years, New York pianist Jeanne Golan has been recording and performing the works of composers persecuted by the Nazis as part of what has come to be known as the recovered voices movement."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"It began when Daniel Rothman, a composer friend in Los Angeles, suggested she check out the piano sonatas of Viktor Ullmann, who was held in the concentration camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia."
Terezin, Ústecký, Czechia
"Viktor Ullmann was held in the concentration camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"Golan traveled to Europe and met with two survivors of Terezin, which is located about 40 miles north of Prague."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Weinberg grew up in the Yiddish theater in Warsaw, which he fled in 1939 after the Nazis started bombing the city."
India
"Walter Kaufmann, a Czech composer who fled to India, as well as popular songs sung by Ukrainians in the Red Army."
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"He wrote an awful lot of terrific music, said Simon Wynberg, artistic director of the ARC Ensemble, a chamber music group in residence at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto."
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
"Kaufman made his way to India where he eventually landed a job as music director at All India Radio before heading to North America where he served as the first music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra."
Indiana, United States
"He wound up at Indiana University, where, despite his lack of an official doctorate, he was hired as a professor of musicology and published research on Indian music."
Berlin, Germany
"An amateur Polish musician named Aleksander Kulisiewicz was held at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"said Brett Werb, the music curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C."
Italy
"The Italian composer and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, who converted to Judaism, has been working since 1990 to bring recovered voices to the worlds attention."
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"The opera didnt premiere until 1975 in Amsterdam."
Lithuania
"and took 20 years to digitize. The project was finished just before Russian shells started to fall on Kyiv. The recovered voice movement will no doubt also mine the Lithuanian state archive, which has been digitized and provided to YIVO."

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