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In "Music from Exile," which debuts at the Penn Humanities Forum on Violence, the Daedalus Quartet explores the music of composers who were forced into various states of exile by the Third Reich. From those composers who were arrested and never completed the journey to exile, to those who spent the war far from home, the effect on the music they produced was profound.

Taking center stage is Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," a musical melodrama based on a poem by Lord Byron for string quartet, piano, and narrator. In the poem, Byron took aim not only at Napoleon, but at all dictatorship. Likewise Schoenberg, in composing this work at the height of the Second World War (1942), meant to express "the moral duty of intelligentsia to take a stand against tyranny."

The program begins with Erwin Schulhoff 's Five Pieces for String Quartetand closes with Erich Wolfgang Korngold's String Quartet No. 3.

Doors open at 4:45. 

$15 General Admission

$7.50 Students with ID

Seating limited. Buy early. 

Cosponsored by Penn Music and the Jewish Studies Program.