(Part 2) - The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler

This is another episode where I highly recommend listening to
Part 1 from last week before listening to this episode! It was a
great honor to speak with the critic and cultural historian
Jeremy Eichler about his remarkable new book "Time's Echo." In
today's episode, we speak about Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen,
as well as the complicated and hotly debated questions about
Strauss' activities during World War II. We also talk about
Shostakovich and his 13th Symphony, entitled "Babi Yar," a piece
of memorial for a place where no memorial had stood for decades.
Finally, we speak about Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem. We
talk about Britten's devout pacificism, about his visit to the
Belsen Displaced Persons camp after World War II, and why his War
Requiem seems to have more connection with World War I than with
World War II. It was truly a joy to talk to Jeremy about all of
these different great composers, as well as the memories they
created with their works. Join us!