Zapraszamy na wykład muzykologa, krytyka muzycznego i muzyka prof. Alexandra Carpentera (29 maja, g.16:00)

Zapraszamy na wykład muzykologa, krytyka muzycznego i muzyka prof. Alexandra Carpentera z University of Alberta. Wykład zatytułowany „String Trios as Intimations of Death? Arnold Schoenberg, Gideon Klein, and Interpreting the Music of the Holocaust” odbędzie się w siedzibie Katedry Judaistyki 29.05 o godz. 16.00 w Auli im. prof. J. Woronczaka. Serdecznie zapraszamy!

Abstract: This lecture focuses on two string trios, composed by Arnold Schoenberg and Gideon Klein. Why did these two composers choose – at almost the same moment – the somewhat unusual genre of the string trio to document traumatic events and their respective encounters with death?  The genesis of Schoenberg’s Trio is reasonably well known; Klein’s remains shrouded in mystery.  This lecture uses interpretations of Schoenberg’s op. 45 and his efforts to express a complex relationship with death to shed light on Klein’s Trio and his experiences at Theresienstadt.  It also proposes a new interpretation of the enigmatic third movement of Klein’s Trio: namely, that it seeks to document – as symbolic reportage – the liquidation of the camp even as it offers a critique of the camp as a Nazi façade and registers Klein’s resignation in the face of imminent death.

Bio: Alexander Carpenter is a musicologist, music critic and musician.  He is Professor of Music at the University of Alberta, where he also serves as Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies.  Dr. Carpenter’s research interests include the music of Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, popular music, aesthetics, and film music.  He is the editor of the forthcoming books Schoenberg in Context, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in July of 2025, and Echoes of Tartini, which will be published by Böhlau in the fall of 2025.