On a recent weekend in New York, three concerts were devoted solely to the music of one little-known twentieth-century composer, Erwin Schulhoff. Schulhoff, a German-speaking Czech Jew, was born in ...

Recently honored as a Lower East Side Community Hero, pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe walked onstage on the evening of May 25th 2016 at the Center for Jewish History in NYC. She is the founder and artistic ...

Schulhoff’s work, recorded here in a staging from 2006, is a surreal reworking of Don Juan, with expressionist, neoclassicist and jazz elements Czech-born Erwin Schulhoff died of tuberculosis in a ...

Presented by the Colburn School's Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, the online series delves into the life and music of Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942), a fascinating, prolific, and ...

Not long after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, Jews in all walks of life were denounced in that nation, barred from their occupations, robbed of their possessions and eventually ...

Video produced by Anne Azzi Davenport and edited by Justin Scuiletti. What do dance and social justice have in common? “No Longer Silent,” a new piece from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, ...

The teenaged Erwin Schulhoff was an idealist. Even as Europe turned toward war in 1914, he wrote music that was sunny, funny, and full of bounce. (His outlook, and his music, would be VERY different ...

Among the great artistic careers cut short by the Third Reich was that of the Czech Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff. He was 48 when he perished of tuberculosis in a concentration camp, so he’d had a ...

Music by the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff is a little bit like the weather in New England, constantly shifting. Schulhoff's Piano Concerto, Op. 43 is a good example. It's more like an orchestral ...