by Elizaveta Agrafenina | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
As Elizaveta mentioned in an earlier post, singer Jo Vincent was one of the Dutch musicians who refused to bow to the Nazi occupiers when they forced all artists to join the Kultuurkamer, under penalty of exclusion from public performances. She survived by performing...
by Elizaveta Agrafenina | May 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Learning from the past to survive the future by Elizaveta Agrafenina During this strange period in Amsterdam one must think back in time. Today is exactly 78 years ago since Dr. Tobie Goedewaagen, held an official opening as the president of the ‘Kultuurkamer’. This...
by Sára Gutvill | May 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
by Pierre Mak Arnold Schönberg wrote this song cycle in 1908-1909, it was premiered in Vienna in January 1910, by the Austrian mezzo-soprano Martha Winternitz-Dorda and the pianist Etta Werndorf. Together with his ‘Drei Klavierstücke Op.11’, it marks the...
by Sára Gutvill | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
While the Netherlands celebrate Liberation day today, on 5 May, my first association with “liberation day” will aways be 4 April – the day when Soviet troops chased away the last nazi units from Hungarian territory in 1945 – the day I...
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