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[Längst verklungener Applaus].
No full textThis collection consists of a printout of an article from the Austrian Online magazine “diestandard.at” (published on June 28, 2007) about Barbara Preis’ research in New York City for her doctoral thesis. The article pertains to émigré musicians living in New York City who studied at Reich College of Music and Performing Arts.digitize
Mendelssohn and nineteenth-century England.
No full textThis thesis is about the relationship of Felix Mendelssohn to the musical culture of nineteenth-century England. Mendelssohn's ten trips to England between 1829 and 1847 are described in detail, and his reception and impact there (both during and after his lifetime) are analyzed. The central arguments presented in this thesis cannot be reduced to a single statement. Rather, the focus of this study is a "constellation" of six related ideas.First, that the effects of Mendelssohn's impact on Victorian Britain's musical culture were extensive and far reaching, permeating almost all strata of society from the working classes to the aristocracy, and also having a profound effect on the music profession. Second, that Mendelssohn actively pursued an ameliorist agenda vis-a-vis British musical culture, seeking to bring musical standards, practices, and values in to line with those of Germany, and that his efforts in this regard were supported and encouraged by many British musicians. Third, that the enormous popularity of Mendelssohn's music in Britain during the composer's lifetime was, in part, the product of a personality cult, and that his sudden death at the age of thirty-eight re-enforced this phenomenon and helped to establish him as a canonic figure. Fourth, that during his lifetime, Mendelssohn was perceived in Britain as a "German" rather than a "Jewish" composer, even though this was not always the case in Germany. However, in the decades following his death, perceptions in Britain gradually shifted, so that, increasingly, he came to be viewed as Jewish. Fifth, that despite the attacks of some later nineteenth-century British critics, who portrayed Mendelssohn as a weak and obsolete cultural force, Mendelssohn's music remained popular within many segments of society through the late nineteenth century. And sixth, that the canonic aspirations of the composers associated with the so-called "English Musical Renaissance" of the late nineteenth century, such as Parry, Stanford, and Mackenzie were both enabled and inhibited by the Mendelssohnian values absorbed by Britain's musical culture. These values included learnedness, antiquarianism, cosmopolitanism, classical formalism, romantic pictorialism, and "gentlemanliness" (avoidance of emotional excess, and propriety in abiding by established conventions of good taste).Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2007.School code: 0779
AHC interview with George Ehrlich.
No full textAugust 27, 2007George Ehrlich was born in Vienna, AustriaAustrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Josef Eisinger.
No full textEisinger, JosefJosef Eisinger was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. He was sent to England by 'Kindertransport' and immigrated to the United States via Canada.Austrian Heritage Collection3/20/200
Some part of who you are : A narrative family history
No full textMemoirs and genealogy with replicas of family photographs and documentsVolume I describes the genealogy of the Heavenrich (originally Himmelreich) and Kirschbraun families. Volume II is the memoir of Herbert Samuel Heavenrich, Jr. and his wife Jill Sherry Heavenrich.digitizedThe Himmelreich family came originally from Bavaria, before moving to the American Midwest. Herbert Heavenrich’s mother was a born Kirschbraun, whose family was originally from Prussia before moving to Virginia and the American West.Herbert S. Heavenrich Jr. was born 1922 in Omaha, NEHerbert S. Heavenrich, Jr.Sent for microfilmin
Family memory book : Prepared for Liselotte Hadra Meyers on her 85th birthday
No full textThe scrapbook commemorating Liselotte Meyers’ 85th birthday consists of notes, original correspondence and photographs, some published materials as well as ephemera.Digital imageLiselotte Meyers née Hadra was born on October 21, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where she was a student at the renowned Jewish school ‘Philantropin.’ She and her family escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and arrived in the United States on October 10, 1938
Frankenau : A 48 hour sacred moment in time.
No full textSolomon Katzenstein was born in Frankenau, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in the 1880's. In the 1920's he dedicated two Torah scrolls to his former synagogue in Frankenau, in honor of his parents. Following Hitler's ascend to power in 1933, Solomon and his son, then living in Kew Gardens, NY, signed affidavits of support on behalf of many Jewish residents of Frankenau and helped them get settled in the United States. The last ones out, just before Kristallnacht, brought the two scrolls to New York, where they were dedicated to Temple Isaiah in Kew Gardens, where Solomon was president.Over the years, several great grandchildren of Solomon Katzenstein read from these torah scrolls in their respective Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations. In 2007, Solomon Katzenstein’s granddaughter took one of the scrolls to Berlin for the Bat Mitzvah of her own granddaughter. The family visited Frankenau, where the Lutheran church organized a reception for the Torah scroll
AHC interview with Hans Weiss.
No full textApril 16, 2007Hans H. Weiss was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. After the ‘Anschluss’, his mother was arrested and kept in a local jail in Vienna for six months. Weiss left Austria on April 20, 1939 for Italy, and made his way eventually to the US via France. He joined the US Army in 1943.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Brigitte Bogard.
No full textNovember14, 2007Brigitte Bogard née Angel was born in Berlin, Germany. She grew up in Vienna, Austria, where she studied at the high school for the daughters of civil servants (Gymnasium fuer Beamtentoechter). She left Vienna in March of 1939, and after a four months sojourn in Paris, France she reached Great Britain. At the outbreak of WW II she was interned in Reading, England as an ‘enemy alien’, but eventually was allowed to continue her high school education at the Talbor Heath High School, Bournemouth, Great Britain. Brigitte Angel Bogard immigrated to the United States in 1946.Austrian Heritage Collectio
