The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler (Part 1)

I had the great pleasure and honor this week(and next week) to
speak with the author of the new book Time's Echo Jeremy Eichler.
The book chronicles four composers and their varied reactions to
World War II and the Holocaust, including Schoenberg, Strauss,
Shostakovich, and Britten. This week we talked about the
historical symbiosis between Germans and German Jews, the concept
of Bildung, a central idea in German culture throughout the 19th
and early 20th century, Mendelssohn's role in creating a sense of
"German" music, Schoenberg's remarkable prescience about what lay
in the future after the Nazis took power in Germany, his
remarkable Survivor from Warsaw, the first major musical memorial
to the Holocaust, and the almost hard to believe it's so wild
story of the premiere of the piece. This is truly one of my
favorite books about classical music that I've ever read, so I
highly recommend picking it up. I hope you enjoy this interview
as much as I did!