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The series is sponsored in part by the Goethe-Institut Boston

Exiled to Hollywood: 
Outcast Artists in Southern California

Forum and concert
January 21, 2012 at MIT's Kresge Auditorium

In the forum the panelists will explore issues surrounding the experience of artists such as being uprooted from their native soil and transplanted in a new land, social and professional acceptance, accommodation to or resistance of public taste, and their impact on the growth and teaching of arts in America. The panelists include:

• Joseph Auner, chair and professor of music at Tufts University.

• Dorothy Lamb Crawford, musicologist, author of A Windfall of Musicians

• Martin Marks, film music historian, senior lecturer in music at MIT

Castelnuovo-Tedesco		Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 70 Schietto e deciso Romanza con variazioni Rondo
Toch		Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 44 Trotzig, anstürmend Intermezzo: Tänzerisch-graziös Allegro giusto
Eisler		Selections from the Hollywood Songbook Der Sohn 1 Der Sohn 2 In den Weiden An den kleinen Radioapparat Über den Selbstmord Die Flucht Spruch Fünf Elegien Vom Sprengen des Gartens Die Heimkehr Die Landschaft des Exils Hollywood-Elegie Nr. 7
Gruenberg		Four Indiscretions for String Quartet Allegro con spirito  Lento sostenuto e esprecssivo  Moderato grazioso e delicato  Allegro giocoso
Korngold		"Mond, so gehst du Wieder auf" from Abschiedslieder, Op. 14 Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 Mäßiges Zeitmaß, mit schwungvoll blühendem Ausdruck Adagio Finale: Allegro giocoso
		Program notes

Chris Pedro Trakas, baritone   Ida Levin, violin   Harumi Rhodes, violin   
Roger Tapping, viola   Michael Reynolds, cello
Randall Hodgkinson, piano   Mihae Lee, piano