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Age Guidance: 6+ years
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When Hitler Stole the Music: the life and songs of Julia Kerr
Julia Kerr (1898-1965) - composer, wife of writer Alfred Kerr, and mother of the acclaimed children's author Judith Kerr, who wrote The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the Mog series and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, her novelisation of the family's flight from Germany. Kerr had just completed her second opera, Der Chronoplan, in 1933, when the family were forced to flee, and the manuscript travelled with them, though the opera was never staged. With the recent revival of interest in entartete musik (the Nazis' so-called 'degenerate music'), it will receive its world premiere in 2026.
Dr Andrea Hammel, from Aberystwyth University's Centre for the Movement of People, and Professor Christian Leitmeir, from Oxford's Faculty of Music, will discuss Kerr's experience of exile as a creative artist, combined with performances of her songs, accompanied by Artistic Director, Iwan Davies.
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