“The Zero Hour” – Austrian Literature and Music at the End of World War II -- An evening of literature and music with Elysium that reflects on the past while asking the urgent question: What do we do with the freedom we have gained?
Austrian Cultural Forum New York 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10022; 6:30pm March 6, 2025
Artists Jeannie Im, Peter Kendall Clark, and more will bring to life the music and songs of Paul Dessau, Hanns Eisler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernst Krenek, Frederick Schreiber, Vally Weigl, and Kurt Weill—composers whose music embodies both the sorrow and resilience of the time.
Image: WStLA, Presse- und Informationsdienst, FC1, 45011 | Young people clearing rubble in Vienna, October 1945