- Wednesday, December 11 | 7:30 pm
- The Menil Collection
- 1533 Sul Ross St. Houston TX 77006
- Reservations are no longer available for this event. The remaining seats are first-come, first-served.
- 7:00 PM: Doors open for patrons with reservations
- 7:15 PM: Doors open for patrons without reservations
Author Jeremy Eichler; Sarah Rothenberg; DACAMERA Young Artists
Celebrating the DACAMERA Young Artist Program
Astrid Nakamura, violin; Chris Ellis, cello; Sarah Rothenberg, piano
Time’s Echo: Music, Memory and the Second World War is a lyrical narrative full of insight and compassion, a book that deepens how we think about the legacies of war, the memory of culture, and the renewed promise of art for our lives today. With a critic’s ear, a scholar’s erudition, and a novelist’s eye for detail, author Jeremy Eichler shows how four towering composers — Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten — lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time.
DACAMERA and the Menil Collection are proud to welcome Jeremy Eichler for an evening of music and conversation. Time’s Echo has been named History Book of the Year by The Sunday Times and hailed as “the outstanding music book of this and several years” by The Times Literary Supplement. Pianist and DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and DACAMERA Young Artists perform Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, and Rothenberg leads a discussion with Jeremy Eichler.
Prior to the program, guests are invited to view the Menil’s new acquisition, The Great Feast, 1964, a large-scale painting by Polish-born American artist Si Lewen, on view in the museum’s Surrealism galleries.
The work depicts a wartime repast, as revelers devour their neighbors in a room teeming with vermin. The composition’s background of imitation gilding recalls earlier religious paintings, while collaged elements, culled from magazines and newspapers, reference Pop Art and the role of mass media in societal developments. Lewen served in the American military during World War II. The trauma of working at the Buchenwald concentration camp days after it was liberated devastated him, and he dedicated his life to pacifism and anti-war statements. In the 1950s, Albert Einstein praised Lewen’s use of art to counteract the human tendency toward destruction.
This program is supported by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed during this event, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Humanities Texas.
“A work of extraordinary power, beauty and human feeling.”
– The Sunday Times, History Book of the Year
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