Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars
by
Laura Tunbridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder—German art songs—was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf,...