On Hollywood and Weimar:
The Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of Film

“Soprano Karyn Levitt, accompanied by Jed Distler, plunged us back into the days when Hollywood was full of exiled and transplanted composers (including Weill, Korngold, Tiomkin, and Hanns Eisler) who found fruitful refuge in the studios. The show was as moving as it was educational.”
— James Gavin

Many of Hollywood’s greatest film scores were written by émigré and exiled composers who fled Nazi Europe for Southern California. From dusty westerns and sweeping romances to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, this program celebrates the blending of the old world and the new to produce the uniquely marvelous sound of Hollywood’s Golden Age.