The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism – Children’s Songs and Forbidden Songs from Persecuted Composers
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MAY 3 | 6.30 PM
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Join us for the concert The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism – Verhinderte Vielfalt / Forbidden Songs performed by Soprano Lydia Rathkolb (former soloist Vienna State Opera) and pianist Thomas Lausmann (The Metropolitan Opera) and a pre-concert lecture by Professor Oliver Rathkolb titled Persecuted and Outlawed Austrian Composers Part I.
This event is part of a two-day conference of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA), the Vienna Library in the Town Hall, and topos.ORF.at (The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. On this page you will find the musical program of the concert The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism. Lieder und Kinderlieder gegen Ausgrenzung und Verfolgung / Children‘s Songs and Forbidden Songs from Persecuted Composers.
Evening Program
Lydia Rathkolb Soprano (former soloist Vienna State Opera)
Thomas Lausmann Piano (The Metropolitan Opera)
Pre-concert Lecture by Univ.-Prof. Oliver Rathkolb: Persecuted and Outlawed Austrian Composers Part I
Ivan Eröd (1936-2019): Milktooth Songs Op17, 1973 (Text Richard Bletschacher)
The Bear-guide
Marriage-planning
Lullaby
Merry-go-round
Alma Schindler-Mahler (1879-1964) aus: Fünf Lieder (1910)
Die stille Stadt (Richard Dehmel)
Bei dir ist es traut (Rainer M. Rilke)
Ich wandle unter Blumen (Heinrich Heine)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), from the song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Clemens Brentano/Achim von Arnim)
Rheinlegendchen
Des Anton von Padua Fischpredigt (1893)
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht
Lecture by Univ.-Prof. Oliver Rathkolb Part II
Eric Zeisl (1905-1959): Children Songs (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Song of Triumph (R. Dehmel)
Sunsong
On the tombstone of a little child
Song of the Hussars
Erich W. Korngold (1897-1957)
Das Ständchen Op 9/3
Sommer Op 9/6
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) from Five Kid Songs 1943:
I Hate Music
I just found out today
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Old Refrain
About the Participants
Lydia Rathkolb As a soprano she sung in opera houses and concert halls such as Vienna State Opera, Volksoper Vienna, Sofia, Opera Nizza, Berlin, Lincoln Center NY, Royal Albert Hall London, Philadelphia, Kennedy Center Washington DC, Vancouver Symphony, Hong Kong, Israel, Lisbon, Basel, with opera festivals Savonlinna, Schwetzingen, Bregenz as well as in Vienna Musikverein, Concert Hall Vienna and Carinthian Summer festival. As coloratura soprano she sang Queen of the Night and Pamina in Magic Flute, Constanze in Mozart`s Entführung, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Pasquale, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata and many title roles in Operetta such as Rosalinde and Adele in The Bat, Merry Widow, Countess Mariza. She debuted at Vienna State Opera in Mozart`s Magic Flute and as a longtime soloist member in the ensemble she sang a repertory from Mozart, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner as well as Italian, French, Russian and contemporary roles with such renowned conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Franz Welser-Möst, Marco Armiliato, M-W.Chung, J. López-Cobos, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Boder, Bertrand de Billy, Alain Altinoglu, Peter Schneider. At Vienna State Opera she also performed in numerous Premiere series, live streams and took part at the State Opera`s tours to Japan. Her love for the Lied brings her to New York, Washington DC, Tokyo, Vienna with solo recitals and she sings in numerous chamber concerts with Ensembles of Vienna Philharmonic as well as in oratorios and spiritual music. Born in Vienna she graduated from University of Music and performing Arts Vienna, studied in Milano and Conservatory Vienna where she also has been teaching classical singing. At University of Vienna she graduated in musicology holding a PhD doing research on H.v.Karajan. She gives masterclasses in singing and also teaches at University of Vienna. Image Credits: Lois Lammerhuber, Wiener Staatsoper
Thomas Lausmann was appointed Director of Music Administration at the Metropolitan Opera at the beginning of the 2019/20 season. He was previously Head of Music at the Vienna State Opera from 2013 to 2019 and was an assistant conductor/coach with the company for the preceding three seasons. Thomas is a regular pianist with the Wiener Philharmoniker playing piano, celeste, harpsichord and organ. He has performed under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst and many others. Thomas has been a Principal Coach at Bayreuther Festspiele since 2008. He has assisted Christian Thielemann in productions of the Ring, Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser, and the Flying Dutchman, and served as Head of Music for the Ring Cycle conducted by Marek Janowski. Thomas has also worked as Principal Coach at the Salzburger Festspiele, recently assisting Franz Welser-Möst on Salome and Elektra. Previous positions include Associate Head of Music at Komische Oper Berlin, Assistant Head of Music at Hamburg State Opera, Assistant Conductor at Washington National Opera and for seven seasons as Assistant Conductor at New York City Opera. Image Credits: Jonathan Tichler / Metropolitan Opera
Oliver Rathkolb, currently Professor at the University of Vienna Department of Contemporary History, chairperson of the academic committee of the House of European History (European Parliament, Brussels); author of several books focusing on contemporary history; editor and co-editor of several studies concerning interdisciplinary questions of contemporary history and communications/media history; managing editor of the journal “zeitgeschichte” and the publication series “Zeitgeschichte im Kontext”; his prize-winning study The Paradoxical Republic: Austria 1945–2020 was published in 2021 by Berghahn Books (New York/Oxford). Image Credits: ParlamentsdirektionUlrike Wieser