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Discover the "forgotten" Karl Weigl

Discover the "forgotten" Karl Weigl featuring John McLaughlin Williams, violin and Glen Inanga, piano

In his early years Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949) was centrally connected to the early twentieth-century Viennese avant-garde. He had been a student of Alexander Zemlinsky and was a lifelong friend of Arnold Schoenberg. In 1904 the three founded the Vereinigung schaffender Tonkünstler (Society of Creative Sound Artists), with Mahler the honorary president. Weigl's works were performed by such musicians as Wilhelm Furtwängler, George Szell, and Elisabeth Schumann. In 1938, Weigl was forced to flee to New York, where he struggled to make a living for his family, but despite the difficulties of exile and his full teaching schedule he never stopped composing.
Performances of his music during the last ten years of his life were almost exclusively confined to his songs and chamber music. Weigl did not live to experience his posthumous acclaim in 1968 when Stokowski gave the world premiere of his Symphony No. 5.

John McLaughlin Williams is a Grammy award-winning conductor and violinist known for his relentless research into musical diamonds hidden from view.

Glen Inanga is best known for his award winning work in the Michallef-Inanga Piano Duo, which has appeared with, among others, the BBC Philharmonic and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tickets can be purchased at: www.brownpapertickets.com

$25 General Admission
$15 Friends of Villa Aurora    

This concert is endorsed by the OREL Foundation, which was founded by Los Angeles Opera Music Director James Conlon for the purpose of recovering creative voices that were lost to the musical repertory because they were suppressed for political and ideological reasons during the time of Hitler's Germany and afterward.
 
We would like to thank the Austrian Consulate General for their support




Street parking is available on Los Liones Drive. Shuttle service starts
at 7 pm from Los Liones Drive, off Sunset Boulevard two blocks
North-East of Pacific Coast Highway.
 
Please do not park on the Topanga State Park Lot! 





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