Music At The Theresienstadt

Music during World War II had an impact on America, both on the home front and on troops serving overseas. First off, WW2 encouraged a wide variety of patriotic songs and love songs that focused on separation (with the possibility of the man dying while away fighting). According to an article posted GilderLehrman.com written by Elihu Rose, war inspired patriotic songs such as ““The House I Live In (That’s America to Me),” “There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere,” “American Patrol,” and “This Is Worth Fighting For” (The Glider Lehrman Institute of American History, “The Forties and the Music of World War II”). Because almost every house in America had some way of listening to music, the mass distribution of music had a patriotic effect

1. How is the history of European and Arabic cultural contact reveal through musical characteristics in places such as Spain and Bulgaria?

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The conditions of the camps varied from one to another, but from Stalags and Concentration camps, they were close to the same. A large portion of deaths in POW camps were from “lack of food” (Uhl 1). The recommended daily minimum was a 2,000 calorie diet (Rees 5).However this was impossible to do with the shortage of food. (Rees 5). Some of the food was “potatoes and moldy bread” (Uhl 1) which was part sawdust (Uhl 1). Many only got “5 grams” of bread (Solzhenitsyn 25). Millions of people were surely to die (Jones 11). Although the camps were harsh, the prisoners were allowed to do many activities such as sports, newspaper, musicals, and more (Uhl 2). Many camps featured musical and plays to entertain others and to be used as propaganda (Uhl 2). Even though the POW’s had better choices, they were still beaten and murdered like the others captured. (Uhl 2). In eight months, Nazis murdered 2.8 Russian Pow’s, exceeding the amount of mass murder during the holocaust. (Uhl 2). While in the camps, many died from the Baatan Death March that killed off all remaining prisoners of the Japanese (“Prisoners of War” 4). The weather was also a large aspect to the deaths. The prisoner’s “fingers were

Served as a transit camp for Gzech Jews whom the germans deported."The Theresienstadt "camp-ghetto" existed for three and a half years, between November 24, 1941 and May 9, 1945. During its existence, Theresienstadt served three purposes." "First, Theresienstadt served as a transit camp for Greco Jews whom the Germans deported to killing centers, concentration camps, and forced labor camps in German-occupied Poland, Belorussia, and the Baltic States ( "Theresienstadt"). This was used for force labor for the elderly Jews." Second, it was a ghetto-labor camp to which the SS deported and then incarcerated certain categories of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews, based on their age, disability as a result of past military service, or domestic celebrity in the arts and other cultural life. To mislead about or conceal annihilation of the Jews deported from the Greater German Reich, the Nazi regime employed the general

Imagine being pried away from your family. Not only that, but being left at the concentration camps, knowing that you are about to face the dreaded word “death”. Concentration camps broke people’s hearts and changed them forever. They had to encounter many terrifying and petrifying medical experiments. Alongside that, the so called “concentration camps” were basically almost becoming, or were, actual death camps. The things that they had to endure were heartbreaking and agonizing. They were starved from the moment that they got there until the end. If they were lucky, their concentration camp would’ve been liberated by the Allies. Most were not so lucky. During the Holocaust, many different concentration camps were built that were to change the lives of people forever.

The Jews transferred here were of the elderly, and some of Europe’s most prominent scholars, artists, and composers. This was to maintain the façade of being a model camp of music and art. They were also some of the German Army’s decorated veterans of World War One. From 1941 to 1944, there would be approximately 140,000 Jews transferred to Theresienstadt; none were to be protected from the Nazis’

Theresienstadt deportations were part of Nazi deception. Terezin ghetto was a collection for deportations to ghettos and killing camps in the East. German authorization murdered Jews on their arrival, or deported them to extermination camps. The transports of Terezin ghetto, extermination camps, were directly sent to, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Auschwitz. In the Terezin ghetto, tens of thousands of Jews died, mainly from disease and

Theresienstadt, A gift from Hitler. A place of hope and happiness for Jews and Jewesses alike. Theresienstadt was somewhere they could wait the war out without fear until the shadow of Nazism passed. It was a place filled with the most prosperous artists and musicians, daily shows and operas, lectures and seminars, gardens and coffee shops. A place with grace and character. An entire town that was given to the Jews as a gift from the Fuehrer. A paradise for Jews. That is at least, what the Nazis wanted people to believe.

Music played a major role in the way people lived during the World War II era. It affected the way people coped and the way people grieved. While this era was a very serious and bleak time, people still found joy in music. World War II was the first war to happen in the age of electronically mass distributed music. The role of music during this time helped keep positive spirits among people all around the world. On a different note, the Germans played music to their soldiers to motivate them to continue to fight. Music was used as propaganda throughout the countries involved to gain public support.

Before hearing this lecture, I had no concept of the types of music in concentration camps, much less a sense of the music within World War II. The lecture taught me how music and the arts are something that can’t ever be stopped. Even though it’s not mandatory for human life or a lucrative career it has permanently etched a place inside of culture and the continuation of history.

Musical modernism can be seen as the time where music emerges its liberty from Romantic era style -that started in the late nineteen century to end of the Second World War- and gains new ideas and freedom. With the political turmoil and chaos that took over the European countries, -that lured countries into the First World War- composers and artists started to find, create more and new ways to express themselves. They eagerly began to discover the art of Eastern countries with the hope of finding new ways of expression. The changes in tonality, irregular rhythms, tone clusters, distressed and antagonistic melodies, the expressionist, abstract, unusual ideas over powers the music, the traditional structures recreated or composed with

The realm of classical music is a relatively veiled in the sphere of popular culture, but if you take the time to scour through the beautiful, sometimes hundreds of years old pieces, you will be surprised by the magnificence and allure that the classical music genre can offer. There are three categories of classical music that can be observed throughout the extensive universe of classical pieces, absolute music, program music, and characteristic music or character pieces.

Johannes Brahms was born on May 7th, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany into a family that was already a part of the romantic music scene. His father, Johann Jakob Brahms, was known as a skilled string and wind performer, and gave his son his first musical lessons. Brahms's parents did not approve of his early efforts as a composer, as they felt that he had more potential for a career as a performer. However, the German pianist of the romantic era still dedicated much of his time to his own compositional endeavors, and had several works published under the pseudonym 'G.W. Marks'. Unfortunately, he had many of these early works destroyed. Brahms spent most of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he composed for chamber ensembles, piano, symphony orchestra, chorus, and voice, before he passed away on April 3rd, 1897. Today, he is regarded as one of the 19th century's leading composers.

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