Articles

The Chilean composer Juan Allende-Blin has spent a lifetime advocating the music of the exiled generation of composers and contributed significantly thereto that the works of the three composers reached us. His knowledge and memories are widespread and reach far back, and his commitment is unique in the landscape of post-war rehabilitation.

Brief explanations of musical terms such as the Second Viennese School, atonality or the twelve-tone method, as well as the situation in exile.

When you spend a long time with a work of art, you often experience that the meaning of this artwork changes over time. We, Eva Nievergelt and Tomas Bächli, experienced this process with the songs by Kahn, Herschkowitz and Spinner already during the rehearsals.

That’s why we both kept a diary during the time of recording. We are here publishing excerpts from our notes.