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Antisemitism and Early Music
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Oct 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Pianist Byron Schenkman centers the conversation in this episode around the pitfalls of overlooking historically antisemitic and discriminatory texts and composers of the “canonized” previous centuries when programming in the 21st century. As a starting point, they’ll use Jeffrey Sposato’s book The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the 19th Century Anti-Semitic Tradition.
Released:
Oct 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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