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A Melodrama from the Concentration Camps: Jewish Music in Exile -- Caulfield

Published: 19 November2008

Professor Philip Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at the University of Chicago (narrator) and Christine Wilkie Bohlman (pianist) will perform the last work that was composed in Hitler’s concentration camps. Composed at Terezin, the work ‘Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke’ (‘The Chronicle of Love and Death of the Flagbearer Christoph Rilke’). The work is a monodrama for speaker and piano that is a Czech variant of the melodrama tradition.

During their visit, Professor Bohlman will also present the keynote address at the National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia. Vist the website for further information.

• RSVP essential: +61 3 9902 0771 or acjc@arts.monash.edu.au
• Limited space available
• Light refreshments will be served

Time: 8 pm
Date: Monday 8 December, 2008
Venue: Building A, Room A1.34, Caulfield campus, Monash University.