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Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood - For Good Measure

Award-winning SF chamber group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) has released their fifth recording, “Émigrés & Exiles in Hollywood” via Centaur Records (CRC 4111). The album is the result of a multi-year exploration via the group’s “Jewish Music & Poetry Project (JMPP), the digital EP features music by many of the talented émigré composers who fled a war-torn Europe during World War II for Los Angeles, going on to write film noir and other movie scores and establish the “Hollywood” style that we hear in the music of John Williams and so many other films today, as well as landing in academia and shaping the next generations of American composers. Featuring chamber music, arrangements, and songs by eight composers—Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Miklós Rózsa, both of whom went on to win Academy Awards, Hanns Eisler, Bronislaw Kaper, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexandre Tansman, Henryk Vars, and Eric Zeisl—and is performed by soprano Nanette McGuinness, cellist Abigail Monroe, and pianist Margaret Halbig. 

Ensemble for These Times Is Proud to Launch the Second Season of “For Good Measure”  A Podcast with BIPOC, Women, and LGBTQIA Creative Artists.      "CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST"
 

 

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The Guernica Project

Award-winning San Francisco contemporary classical chamber group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will release its fourth album, The Guernica Project on June 17 via Centaur Records, commemorating the 85th anniversary of the 1937 bombing of Gernika (Spain) by Nazi forces and Picasso’s masterpiece in response to the tragedy. E4TT will also make new podcast, ‘For Good Measure,’ available on multiple platforms, starting June 6.

On Monday, April 26, 1937, Nazi and Italian forces carpet-bombed the Basque town of Guernica in support of Francisco Franco’s right-wing overthrow of the Spanish Republic. That year, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) had been asked to create a mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Expo.  From his exile in France and at the height of his artistic powers, Picasso had not yet settled on a topic. Although his initial designs were apolitical in nature, when the attack on Guernica took place. Fate had spoken: Guernica would be his topic.

Ensemble for These Times’ will commemorate the 85th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s iconic “Guernica” with new music by four modern Spanish and American composers. E4TT premiered “The Guernica Project” in April 2017, marking the 80th anniversary of the 1937 massacre/conflagration, and Picasso’s monumental response to it. EATT toured the project performing in Madrid, Spain that October. This recording, which commemorates the 85th anniversary, features seven pieces by four modern composers, two from Spain and two from California in the U.S.   

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