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L.I.F.E class in Macomb, 2012

    Fleeing Hitler: Music by Exiled Composers in America

    First Presbyterian Church, February 2012marietta small
    The Landscape of Exile (1942) ……………………………..Hanns Eisler
    Sonata Breve (1973)……………………………………………Ruth Schonthal (piano)
    Lonely People , 1951 (Langston Hughes)………………….Jean Berger
    Sleep now, oh sleep now, 1970 (James Joyce)……………Gitta Steiner
    Echo, 1942 (Thomas Moore)…………………………………Paul Hindemith
    All day I hear the noise of waters ( James Joyce) ………..Vally Weigl
    Dreams and Experiences, Op. 15 (1920)…………………..Paul Hindemith (piano

    Three readings from,”Five Hollywood Elegies,” of Berthold Brecht
    Poor bit of a wench, 1995 ( D.H.Lawrence)………………..Ruth Schonthal
    Five Piano Pieces,Op.39 (1925)……………………………….Ernst Krenek (piano)

    Marietta Dean, Mezzo Soprano
    Anna Wagner, Piano

    Fleeing Hitler revisited: Music by Exiled Composers in America
    First Presbyterian Church, September 2012

    Self Portrait of the Artist as an Older Woman……………….Ruth Schonthal (piano)
    Two Songs to Poems of Langston Hughes …………………..Jean Berger
    Heart
    Carolina Cabin
    Es geht ein dunkle Wolk’ herein……………………………….Hanns Eisler
    Aus der Heimat (Eichendorff)
    Verfehlte Liebe (Heine)
    In der Fruehe (Moerike)
    Jeden Morgen (Brecht)
    Spruch 1939 (Brecht)
    Cantique……………………………………………………………..Nadia Boulanger
    Laue Sommernacht………………………………………………..Alma Mahler
    Ich wandle unter Blumen
    Bei Dir ist es traut
    Chanson……………………………………………………………..Nadia Boulanger
    Of Sprinkling the Garden, Recitation of Berthold Brecht
    From “Pentatonics”………………………………Ruth Schonthal (piano)
    The fragrance of cherry blossom
    Sitting by the water’s edge
    A quiet day without sun
    Two Lieder
    Eine rote Rose (Ingrid Olbricht)
    Totentanz
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