Events | Lecture: Herbert Zipper and the "Lessons of Dachau"
Villa Aurora | November 21, 2024 | 7:30 PM (PST)
The lecture “Herbert Zipper and the Lessons of Dachau” by Dr. Albrecht Dümling will be supplemented by short film clips, personal memories, and musical performances.
The conductor and composer Herbert Zipper (1904 - 1997) was a pioneer in the field of music education. When he discovered a deficit in arts education in U.S. schools, he helped start community arts programs. As a conductor of the Brooklyn Symphony he focused on school outreach programs and soon became the first executive director of the National Guild of Community Music Schools. He initiated and led the Music Center of the North Shore as a modern community music school that combined professional performances with high quality education and training for the younger generation. In 1972 he moved to Los Angeles where he continued his pioneering work. Programs developed by Zipper in California eventually evolved into the renowned Colburn School.
The great energy with which Zipper carried out this education work in the USA and Asia over several decades until his death can be traced back to his imprisonment in the German concentration camp Dachau in 1938. This shocking experience shaped his view of the potential impact of art, not least music.
Participants
Dr. Albrecht Dümling is a musicologist and music critic living in Berlin. After finishing his doctoral dissertation, he worked as a music critic for the Berlin newspaper “Der Tagesspiegel” (1978-1998) and the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (1999-2003). He is a contributor to the “Neue Musik-Zeitung” and several radio programs. In 1988 he created a critical reconstruction of the Nazi exhibition “Entartete Musik” (Degenerate Music, Düsseldorf 1938). As a Getty Scholar he curated a new version of this exhibition for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Since 1990 Dümling is chairman of “musica reanimata“, a society for the promotion of composers persecuted by the Nazis, which in 2006 was awarded the German Critics’ Prizeand, to date, has organized more than 160 lecture concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin.
His research focuses on music policy in the Nazi state and musicians in exile. In 2000-2004 Dümling conducted a research project on German-speaking refugee musicians in Australia. He is editor of the book series “Verdrängte Musik/Suppressed Music”. Other books focus on Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, Hanns Eisler, musical performing rights, Leon Jessel, Gideon Klein and Artur Schnabel. His latest publication tells the story of the Weintraubs Syncopators. For his activities Dümling was awarded in 2007 with the European Cultural Prize KAIROS of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation Hamburg and in 2021 with the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Soprano Alaysha Fox is quickly making her mark in the world of opera. Recently concluding her tenure with the esteemed Domingo-Colburn- Stein Young Artist Program at LA Opera, she showcased her exceptional talent through notable roles including the Female Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and the High Priestess in Verdi's Aida. In the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Fox joined the Lyric Opera of Chicago where she covered the leading soprano, Elisabeth de Valois, in Don Carlos and joined Bard SummerScape to portray the role of Lady Clarence in Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII. This season, she once again dazzled audiences at LA Opera, performing Catrina in El último sueño de Frida y Diego. High in demand on the concert stage, Ms. Fox is a featured soloist at both Opera Santa Barbara’s 30th Anniversary Gala and LA Opera’s Hemmings Gala, joins Midamerica for Marc-Andre Bougie’s Magnificat, makes her Palm Spring Opera Guild debut as the featured soloist in their Opera in the Park series, and presents a recital with African Americans for LA Opera. Upcoming operatic engagements include making her house debut with Opera Maine, portraying the High Priestess and covering the title role in Aida, and returning to Opera Santa Barbara for a leading role debut.
Samuel Glicklich is currently a Bachelors of Music Candidate at the Colburn Conservatory. This past year, he was awarded 2nd prize in the “2022 Casagrande International Piano Competition” in Terni, Italy. He was also the winner of the 2022 Colburn School concerto competition. Additionally, Samuel was recently awarded the “Young Talents” scholarship from the Musique & Vin au Clos Vougeot festival in France, co-directed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Gautier Capuçon. In previous years, Samuel was awarded 3rd prize at the 2021 Singapore International Piano Competition, prize winner in the 2021 Canada International Piano Competition, gold medal in the Seattle International Piano Competition, first prize in the Glendale Piano Competition, and winner of the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition. Samuel was also a prize winner in the 2021 Canada International Piano Competition.
LOCATION:
Villa Aurora
520 Paseo Miramar, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Attendance to this event is free and open to the public.
Free shuttle service departs from Los Liones & Sunset starting at 6:30 pm. Last shuttle to Villa Aurora leaves 15 minutes prior to the event.
This event takes place in collaboration with Colburn School.
