MUSIC, MIGRATION & MOBILITY
The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain
Upcoming Events
Music, Mobility and Migration: exhibiting the life and movement of migrant musicians. Royal College of Music, 27th January 2023.
We invite academic researchers and practitioners to attend a workshop ‘study day’ on the theme of Music, Mobility and Migration: exhibiting the life and movement of migrant musicians. The workshop will take place in person at the Royal College of Music on January 27th 2023.
Applicants are asked to apply to Peter Adey (peter.adey@rhul.ac.uk) with a very short biography (no more than 150 words) or a link to their webpage, an indication as to how their interests align with the aims of the day (in a few sentences), and an estimation of travel costs. The deadline for applications is Friday 6th January.
More details can be found here.
Past Events
12th-14th September 2022 - Music, Migration and Mobility: An Interdisciplinary International Conference - Online, hosted by the Royal College of Music
This conference discussed music as a mobile phenomenon and reflected critically on methodological approaches and theoretical framings of music, especially the music of migrants. It featured 25 speakers from all over Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia who explored music and musical history through the lens of mobility, as opposed to static, rigid categories of national or geographical belonging.
January 29 2020, 4.15pm - Belonging and Not Belonging
Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, Forman Lecture Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music Research Forum and Performance with Monica Bohm-Duchen, Eva Fox-Gal, Norbert Meyn and David Fligg, including performances of songs by Peter Gellhorn and Karl Rankl. This event will focus on how to celebrate the work of artists who came to Britain as refugees from Nazi Europe, based on the experience of the 'Insiders-Outsiders Festival' and the 'Singing a Song in a Foreign Land' project at the Royal College of Music. Free, no tickets required. Click here for more information.
November 20, 6pm - YouTube broadcast of our concert can be found here: Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960) - Traveller between Worlds
Wednesday December 9 2020, 6.30pm - Live Stream Concert, Ensemble ÉMIGRÉ supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Thursday December 3 2020 - Inaugural Symposium 'Music, Migration and Mobility - The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain' Papers can be viewed below until 31st January, 2021
Sunday June 13, 2021at 6pm - 'Music and the Émigré Photographers: Companions in Creativity'
Norbert Meyn chairs an online event in collaboration with the Insiders Outsiders Festival.
All Videos
Norbert Meyn - Trees have Roots, Humans have Legs
Nils Grosch - Push and pull factors for operatic concepts around Glyndebourne's Emigres
Peter Adey - Where music flows like money: mobility, migration and magnetism at Glyndebourne
Jack Campbell performs a selection from Twenty-Four Preludes, vol. 1, op. 83 (1965) by Hans Gál
Programme
Norbert Meyn, RCM - Trees have roots, humans have legs - Foregrounding Migration and Mobility in Performances
Beth Snyder, RCM - Negotiating nationalisms: the foundation and early activities of the Anglo-Austrian Music Society
Peter Adey, RHUL - 'Where music flows like money': mobility, migration and magnetism at Glyndebourne'
Nils Grosch, Salzburg University - 'I don’t want to wait until it is too late again’: Push and pull factors for operatic concepts around Glyndebourne’s Emigrees
Concert with Ensemble Émigré and students from the Royal College of Music
Works by Hans Gál, Egon Wellesz and Mátyás Seiber
Norbert Meyn, tenor
Catherine Hooper, soprano
Lucy Colquhoun, piano
Christopher Gould, piano
Jack Campbell, piano
Florian Scheding, University of Bristol - Performing Migration: Mátyás Seiber's Ulysses
Alison Garnham - Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-War BBC