tv Arts.21 Deutsche Welle August 29, 2022 7:30pm-8:01pm CEST
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really busy and then the music is a beautiful thing. it's a religion to be, i believe in the god of music. ah, any others, you know, but i burning with an art 21. this week we explore the many faces of jewish music music that was buried, forgotten we discovered cherished music with connective power. and we start with the dish cup. in them dunker dish nod from donna hall. this is daniel cans, version of leonard coons. classic harlan moved
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forward decker, his 1st solo album, he translated lyrically to yiddish. manish techs, originally written by the likes of curt nicholson and bob dylan, jewish artillery, explain him the issue item. so i thought of them along by name the see addition lead called you to think songs are so rich and so deep just because of history and the changing of time, vandal that side. so me wrong with me. mention freda was written in 1916 by solomon smallwood. it's a ballard about the polio outbreak that swept new york. o . as the corona virus pandemic regions,
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the lyric still ring true to day fella for stanley this proclamation. but in man, not many know the language that if you can make it understandable, it opens something up. after a shot i originally from the us con, 1st learned yiddish after moving to germany in 25. to day he and his wife, russian artist, eva lisco, live in hamburg with their son to law on a house boot. at home, they speak english, russian, german, and yiddish. daniel con, loves diversity in his music too. i realize the freedom. sometimes he plays alone. sometimes with his band, the painted bird, his music is steeped in melancholy and anger about all that's wrong in the world. when you my dear v, i hope people are all over the world,
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are building up resistance. bowen, for justice of her anti racism, antithesis. real democracy is child her freedom of a verb that was inspired by these movements of freedom as a verb is to instill yet transition prevail, goldman and he combines klezmerson punk blues and folk, and re interprets will song such as more decay. bertie 19 thirty's him to the jewish workers movement with lyrics of a sarcastic edge that still sounds contemporary. ah, if you again are to lead a d m, i like to play old songs that work like new songs, old songs about war poverty and love. and i try to write new songs that can also grow old. i've been oh using that will stand the test of time, just like that of mordecai kathy,
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who was murdered by the nazis in 18. 42. daniel con shows how closely linked the present is to the past. ah, can music saved lives? we spoke to anita lucko, vol. fish, who survived the hail of oceans and bergen belsen. ah. it is very difficult to explain to your generation. this generation. a state of mind at that time to day i am alive to morrow i might not be. that's how it was. we didn't think much. we just lift from one hour to the next. oh, but music was a lifeline. i always wanted to play the cello
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tent, ask me why. but then the difficulties began when i was older and still wanted to play the cello. there wasn't any cello teaches impress, low to days, fought left. he would teach a jewish child. ah, anita alaska. val fish was born into a german jewish family in 1925. she was the youngest child. the nazis came to power in 1933. what happened then was that i was sent to berlin, where a jewish cello teacher taught me. it was not long before the 9th of november, everything changed at that moment. we knew we couldn't stay, but unfortunately it was already too late. the pope rome of november 9th 1938 revealed the extent of the nazi threat anti semitic persecution. gave way to genocide. anita lucko, val fish was deported to ocean city in december 19. 43. we already knew what out of it's meant that we were going to be murdered the last station. but nothing turns
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out the way you expect. because she could play the cello, she became part of the women's orchestra of oceans. this saved her life. over a 1000000 people died in the camp between 19401945. most were gast, others were shelter, beaten to death. many died of illness and starvation. we thought as long as they want music, they went put us in the gas chamber. that's all respite if they want music, they need us respite. that's all. ah, we will, marched out early in the morning. we sat at the gate and played marches as thousands of prisoners were sent off to work in factories. the same happened in the evening when that was over,
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we were sent back to the block to la notes. the repertoire by hot there were comes at some sunday. we sat somewhere in the camp. i can't remember how many places we played and it was for the amusement of the gods. but the prisoners could also hear us. and the reactions were very different. for some, it was an insult. but i've also read about people who said that it helped them to dream they were somewhere other than this. hell for a few minutes. ah, she survived not only the hell of oceans but also winter bergen belsen where many die because the terrible conditions she was still there when the camp was liberated by british troops in april 1945. ah you know,
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send me my life has 2 parts. one of them is hell. the other part is normal life, but not cease disjoint so much. but not music. pe tried, but they couldn't. ah, composer yerra mere vine burger managed to escape the nazis and emigrated to america. his works were largely forgotten, but are now being re discovered o ruling steamer spring storms was the last operator performed in the weimar republic, details of love and intrigue during times of war. it disappeared from the stage after the nazis came to power. almost 90 years later, the artistic director of the commercial opera,
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berlin barry kosky decided to revive it. we had to play sherlock holmes, alyssa oyster because your kestrel score had disappeared armless, but we reconstructed it younger, mocked ah, yes. now that reconstructed version of spring storms, premier didn't berlin? in january 2020 i sion pat jewish check composer yerra mir vine burger became world famous in the 1920s. thanks to his opera. shonda the bagpiper. it was the most played opera on the german language stages in the 2nd half of the 1920s. it was also celebrated in london and new york. but the composer languished in obscurity after escaping mitzy, germany for the us will vine back as an interesting man, a month for a few years. he was one of the most famous composers in the world that but he had to leave after 933 when they had a need, a terrible fate, like many others,
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he was in america, didn't write much losses. enthusiasm had done, then he got brain cancer and committed suicide, remarked in other circumstances, spring storms may well have become a world wide triumph. wow. non leaked, he's a flood zone. the works of jewish artists were labeled, degenerates and bombed by the nazis zulu. these operators, nit videos operators not like others, and it's sort of a spy drummond just but the fact that premiered in 1933 in the shadow of the war and the showa. i'd see she gives us a particular quality dish to come. bizarre the quality spring storm seems harmless enough. but for koski, the oppressive atmosphere at the time is palpable. this work which only had
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a short run before the nazis seized power. the strict gets about the love of a russian aristocrat, lydia pub, laska, for a japanese major e to my or ito ah, the lobby. i think that in 1033, i just had to turn the russian woman into a german and the japanese man into a jew, and it was clear what was meant, yoda, this is clovis district eigen dickies livable. think in the pony, behead bah. lips, hello, as fighters, i work as a boat identity t who is her there. nobody trusts anybody out. not even the main characters in these. i think that was in the ear in 1930. she clobbered us for in the loft behind berger's new church and music is shot through with melancholy tones. set
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designer close bloomberg. design to dark transformer po box. to illustrate the dark historical context, the, it is acoustical idea of this box came from the fact that none of the characters are at home. the french are all wistful in a foreign country. come new things come to the surface of a noise, but they're just highlighted like quote, memory as you know, dreaming. would i be toya? oh, come sure open is know. working on via burger's 1929 oper, schlander due to premier this year. my yes sir, your composers we discovery is long overdue ah, celebrating the work of long forgotten artist. that's also close to the heart, a violinist, the don creamer. he's one of the most unusual musicians of our times. he don kramer, is a magnificent violinist with the intellectual depth of
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a philosopher ah, with. thus he says, if i feel obligated to pass on what i have experienced what i can do, what i think, i think that's the source of my being the source of all my doing them of my thoughts and feelings towards my leg done for you. don cramer was born in 1947 in the lat, seen capital rica, his great grandfather, grandfather, and father were all violinist. he surpassed them all, but his never satisfied with his achievements. the family legacy weighs heavily on him. ingles was on the site to lima, his father's there and so to speak. my father's 2nd life fell. he suffered so much during the war $35.00 of his relatives,
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including his wife and his one and a half year old daughter were murdered in the regal ghetto. language he was able to escape and he met my mother a german after the warrick mcmahon. i'm with those are the circumstances of my birth control finance organise. so ms. stone. oh oh. 2 i see myself as my father's 2nd life. well, there is such a tragedy. he wanted to plant something good in me. i got me off. he also gave me
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the strength to believe that a lot can be achieved. if one is honest and true to oneself, then marielli spoke on women, so the so musty, ah ah, his jewish heritage and the hopes and expectations of his father continue to preoccupy him to this day. ah, he's up and for meeting, this is the one thing for me to say, i have a family history and because of it, i feel a duty to do something with you. i do it for young people 1st and foremost to focus . that's why i founded the crimea router, baltic or orchestra 25 years ago with talented people from the 3 baltic states.
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estonia that we're unless you a new yeah, hope we're still together and then for we're a family friends and i am at home with the orchestra room a lot about the concert halls. i managed to plant something of myself in this next generation, so to speak, to 4 of my attitude towards music and towards life from atlanta, oakland. so mazique in my little to leave him ah, others when the 0 for money this is from i recently said that i was driven by contradictions lou music and i actually seek them out. so a cannon. it's important to recognize new things schools to expand the spectrum of my work paper and my thought and to transmit it to the audience or the next
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generation image. but because i don't want to sound sentimental from your boss. i search every day, lou, but i'm never satisfied with what i find so famous that ah, with been paying for lucca on. i've said it over and over again. i'm not a politician and won't ever be won by the mention in the list. but i am a defender of human rights in russia, in germany, or in ukraine in syria, with god knows where else all of that concerns me, little, but i don't go out to answer the barricades about. but i do have an incredible amount of empathy for all those who suffer vance imagery in putty. it. so i didn't
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the, the fun lion her ah, ah, you with the was it made it? we tried to make the world a little bit better with music. and but the world is crazy when you country fight that with music with them was there is little hope of doing so a good dismissal from still of the glimmer of hope that exists is what i tried to transmit that with the chrome erotic baltic out about a couple middle, oh oh oh oh, making the world a little better with music and ambition shan't. by israeli singer,
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songwriter and producer naga as mom and i know no way to go. no future insight that thought no get and i sings in her bleak and angry song, bad habits. i was born an angry person. the song was born from a feeling, but the world she knew was on its way out. it struck a chord with many young people in israel like you in just this was something that would, was always keeping my mind busy when i was a young girl, when he came to the smallest to the largest things like how could it be that way
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and i had a lot of energy to channel towards something and, and i think my parents realize that and just whatever it is that i wanted to do, they were there were like, ok, let her do that. oh, really have visit the end of the rob. no guy, ever as is the musical voice of a new generation. one that is liberal, open minded, and self confidence. ah, yeah gazillion but i burn in the sun. never missed once. i'm sick when she things about celebrating life as she does in and of the road. there's nothing cliched about it. she's from a country that cannot find peace. televi, where she lives is no stranger to terrorism. conflict is constantly present, but she doesn't want to be a protest singer. every time my music is defined as political music. while my instinct is to say, it's not political, it's just living here makes some incidents
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a part of life. things have happened to you, your parents, your grandparents, it's just, it's just a part of life. but you know, that creates some kind of a atmosphere and it makes people who they are. it designs the texture of humanity here. oh, i know it has isn't afraid to touch on controversial themes in a provocative video for her song bulk ada. she dresses like a jewish orthodox man. no. the members of the ultra orthodox community, tel aviv, the city of sin, as opposed to the holy city of jerusalem. emmy lou ah ah contrasts feature heavily in her songs,
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which she writes with her partner or he also way way now with cabin open microphone and headphones. and one of us would be just improvising things and jibberish ng things. but even though it happens in such a intuitive way, eventually we build as we'll build songs around that after having conversations about what is important to us. and they are very intimate conversations because i'm, while we have that ability, we're not just music partners, we're life partners, and it's a big part of how i got to for him. my identity is an artist. ne, oh, we call the song, a children, a song for adult. ha, ha, ha, mom. i am winning the pandemic stroke. it
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is and who so started imagining a different world. a world at a standstill. one without disasters, without bad news. i thought i named but they soon concluded that people would find such a world too boring. and so there's violence, there's, there's conflicts and racism and, and we're dyed his life to us and i've, i've allowed myself to be very innocent and childish for a 2nd. and just imagine, you know, what, what would happen if, if that wasn't the case, the conclusion that i got to after, you know, thinking a little bit about what the world would be. i was like, we're not ready for this. we're not ready for the world to be right.
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her song via kites was inspired by the attacks of protesting palestinians who flew fire kite bombs over the israel garza border in 2018. well before you try to seek a fair, fair finger knocking in it, she talks about all being just as much part of growing up for young women as sex 7 . we don't need bombs, she things get. we got 5 kite bombs, we got 5. okay. so we don't need, we get like, ah, does she want to be an am that's a different pizza? no, no, no need. will i make peace with my music? is this your question? that music doesn't have that power? music is a beautiful thing. as i said before, is a religion to be, i mean i am,
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i believe in the god of music. music doesn't have the power to change reality. it has a power the way i see it, i think some people would be angry, but i think the way i see it that the one thing that music can do is to help other people realize that they're not alone with what they're going through. maybe i'm wrong, i don't think i'm wrong. i checked it for this week. now i see you next week for another addition of 21. ah ah, with
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