Music of Resistance and Remembrance: Part II
Music of Resistance and Remembrance: Part II
June 13, 2025 4:30 PM 4:55 PM Lilly Hall Studio Theatre (LH168 - Black Box Theatre)
Music of Resistance and Remembrance Part 2: Willner, Kukuck, Osorio-Swaab. This program will feature 3 composers directly affected by WWII but who managed to survive. Czech born Arthur Willner studied with Reinecke, Thuille, and Rheinberger and escaped to England in 1938. Felicitas Kukuck studied with Paul Hindemith and managed to survive the war when a sympathetic clerk hid her half-Jewish origin when she applied for a marriage license. During the war she and her husband hid a Jewish woman in their Berlin home. Born in Amsterdam, Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab was a student of Henk Badings, concentrating on composition after her children had grown. She survived the war in hiding, although her son was murdered at Dachau. Her final composition was the sunny Sonata for solo oboe of 1959.
Sonata for Oboe and Piano in F-sharp Minor, Op. 111
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Vivace
William Wielgus, Oboe
Eric Malson, Piano
Arthur Willner (1881-1959)
Sonatine : voor hobo-solo, A’dam, September 1959
II. Andante, ma non troppo
William Wielgus, Oboe
Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881-1971)
Die Lieder der Nachtigall-4 Fantasien für Oboe solo (1986)
IV. Die Nachtigall {Theodor Storm}
William Wielgus, Oboe
Felicitas Kukuck (1914-2001)
Oboe Family
Solo Performance