soundcheck 73: Do you still know who I am? The Kassel music patron Emmy Rubensohn

She lived in Leipzig, Kassel, Shanghai and New York. But wherever she worked, she was committed to musicians. In her Kassel home, Ernst Krenek composed Jonny spielt auf, the most successful opera of the interwar period. Even in exile in Shanghai, where she managed to escape in 1940, she participated in musical life, making friends with musicians such as the violinist Ferdinand Adler. After the Second World War, she found new friends in New York: be it Dimitri Mitropoulos, the chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, or the legendary Alma Mahler-Werfel.

Matthias Henke draws for the first time a portrait of this fascinating woman for whom music was a means of survival - a picture framed by the music of Ernst Krenek, her artistic guiding star.

Performers:
Anna Nesyba - soprano
Hellmuth Vivell - piano

Essay: Prof. Dr. Mattias Henke (Professor of Historical Musicology, University of Siegen)

Program:
Ernst Krenek - Two sacred songs op. 112
Ernst Krenek - Potpourri from the opera "Johnny spielt auf" op. 45, arranged for piano by Jenö Takács

Tickets: 12,- Euro, reduced 7,- Euro
Box office: 1 hour before the performance
Free choice of seats

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