Hanns Eisler News

The New Budapest Orpheum Society brings forth more treasures from the archives of 20th-century Jewish popular music on a new CD, 'Jewish Cabaret in Exile' (Cedille Records CDR 90000 110), its second recording for Cedille Records.

On Sunday, November 9, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and 75 years since Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and The Royal Conservatory of Music, Canada, will launch 'Music in Exile-Emigré Composers of the 1930s,' a five-day series of concerts, talks, and a music-theater piece celebrating the music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich and German composers who resisted the Nazi regime.

The Young Directors Project will be presented again this year in Salzburg. The successful theatre project is now in its seventh year and is becoming even more international. As well as German-language productions, there are now for the first time ones from Japan, Norway and the USA in the context of the Young Directors Project.

The Young Directors Project will be presented again this year in Salzburg. The successful theatre project is now in its seventh year and is becoming even more international. As well as German-language productions, there are now for the first time ones from Japan, Norway and the USA in the context of the Young Directors Project.

On Sunday, November 9, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and 75 years since Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in association with Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music, will launch 'Music in Exile-Emigre Composers of the 1930s,' a five-day series of concerts, talks, and a music-theater piece celebrating the music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich and German composers who resisted the Nazi regime.

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), co-founded and directed by pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, who 'reinvented the song recital during the 1990's with daring and dramatic programming' (The New Yorker), announces its 21st season (2008-2009).

Here's a look at the February lineup at the Metropolitan Room:

Young Micaela Leon's fascinating new cabaret act captures the spirit of Weimar Berlin.