V058: Decca: Entartete Musik

V058: Entartete Musik

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VHS (NTSC), Decca, color, 35:00 (Gift of Belmont Music Publishers)
Produced and directed by Beata Romanowski
Executive producer: Didier de Cottignies
A Video Express Production

Time Description

0:00 Photos of "degenerate" composers

0:50 Urban scenes from 1930s, voice-over discusses persecution of Jewish and avant-garde composers under the Nazis

1:40 Decca is bringing out a new series of works devoted to works stamped "degenerate" by the Nazis: "Entartete Musik: music suppressed by the third reich"

2:30 Scenes of Europe in the 1920s; energetic artistic life

3:25 Interview with Berthold Goldschmidt, composer

3:50 Cultural life in the Weimar Republic

4:20 Interview with Norman Lebrecht, writer on music

4:40 Goldschmidt

5:00 Cabaret and film production in Berlin

6:30 Photo of Schoenberg conducting in Berlin; one of many composers forging new paths at the time

7:10 Discussion of two operas: Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane, and Krenek's Jonny spielt auf

8:20 Interview with John Mauceri, conductor

9:45 Scenes from a production of Jonny spielt auf (Graz, 1980)

10:25 Interview with Lothar Zagrosek, conductor

11:15 Interview with Ernst Krenek, composer

12:15 Zagrosek, scenes from Jonny spielt auf

13:00 Dance music, Nazi agitation, party marches, Nürnberg rallies

15:00 Footage of Thomas Mann reading a statement after his arrival in the US (New York, 1938)

15:40 Goebbels addressing crowd, book burning

16:15 Lebrecht

16:40 Goebbels speaking on "German art"

17:15 Hitler speaking on degenerate art and scenes of the Munich exhibition

18:45 Scenes of the new, approved artistic style

19:30 Interview with Albrecht Dümling, musicologist

19:40 Scenes of Nazi Vienna; exhibition of degenerate music in Düsseldorf

20:00 Dümling

20:15 Goldschmidt

20:25 Lebrecht

21:00 Poster against Krenek's opera

21:15 Zagrosek

22:00 Footage of deportation of Jews to the camps

23:00 Lebrecht

23:30 Scenes from a production of Hans Krasa's children's opera Brundibár (Theresienstadt, 1941)

24:00 Nazi propaganda films of Theresienstadt

25:00 Exodus of Jewish musicians

25:30 Lebrecht

26:15 Scenes of emigres in America, including Schoenberg and Mann at Malibu party

27:00 Discussion of Korngold and Waxman's activities as film composers

27:50 Mauceri; scenes from films for which they composed scores

28:50 Liberation of Germany; post-war devastation

29:45 Mauceri; reaction against "emotional" composition

30:00 Lebrecht, discussing the importance of Pierre Boulez and Karl Heinz Stockhausen in the post-war musical world

30:35 Zagrosek, discussing Goldschmidt

31:20 Goldschmidt

32:00 Goldschmidt performing his own piano works

33:20 Credits: list of forthcoming releases, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder plays in background

35:00 End

Time	Description
0:00	Photos of "degenerate" composers
0:50	Urban scenes from 1930s, voice-over discusses persecution of Jewish and avant-garde composers under the Nazis
1:40	Decca is bringing out a new series of works devoted to works stamped "degenerate" by the Nazis: "Entartete Musik: music suppressed by the third reich"
2:30	Scenes of Europe in the 1920s; energetic artistic life
3:25	Interview with Berthold Goldschmidt, composer
3:50	Cultural life in the Weimar Republic
4:20	Interview with Norman Lebrecht, writer on music
4:40	Goldschmidt
5:00	Cabaret and film production in Berlin
6:30	Photo of Schoenberg conducting in Berlin; one of many composers forging new paths at the time
7:10	Discussion of two operas: Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane, and Krenek's Jonny spielt auf
8:20	Interview with John Mauceri, conductor
9:45	Scenes from a production of Jonny spielt auf (Graz, 1980)
10:25	Interview with Lothar Zagrosek, conductor
11:15	Interview with Ernst Krenek, composer
12:15	Zagrosek, scenes from Jonny spielt auf
13:00	Dance music, Nazi agitation, party marches, Nürnberg rallies
15:00	Footage of Thomas Mann reading a statement after his arrival in the US (New York, 1938)
15:40	Goebbels addressing crowd, book burning
16:15	Lebrecht
16:40	Goebbels speaking on "German art"
17:15	Hitler speaking on degenerate art and scenes of the Munich exhibition
18:45	Scenes of the new, approved artistic style
19:30	Interview with Albrecht Dümling, musicologist
19:40	Scenes of Nazi Vienna; exhibition of degenerate music in Düsseldorf
20:00	Dümling
20:15	Goldschmidt
20:25	Lebrecht
21:00	Poster against Krenek's opera
21:15	Zagrosek
22:00	Footage of deportation of Jews to the camps
23:00	Lebrecht
23:30	Scenes from a production of Hans Krasa's children's opera Brundibár (Theresienstadt, 1941)
24:00	Nazi propaganda films of Theresienstadt
25:00	Exodus of Jewish musicians
25:30	Lebrecht
26:15	Scenes of emigres in America, including Schoenberg and Mann at Malibu party
27:00	Discussion of Korngold and Waxman's activities as film composers
27:50	Mauceri; scenes from films for which they composed scores
28:50	Liberation of Germany; post-war devastation
29:45	Mauceri; reaction against "emotional" composition
30:00	Lebrecht, discussing the importance of Pierre Boulez and Karl Heinz Stockhausen in the post-war musical world
30:35	Zagrosek, discussing Goldschmidt
31:20	Goldschmidt
32:00	Goldschmidt performing his own piano works
33:20	Credits: list of forthcoming releases, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder plays in background
35:00	End