Exile to Hollyhood violin concert at AFSF
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Exile to Hollywood Isabelle Durin, violon Michaël Ertzscheid, piano At the dawn of the twentieth century, the antisemitism of totalitarian regimes compelled many Jewish composers from Central and Eastern Europe into exile. Fleeing pogroms and persecution, they settled in the United States—the new Promised Land—and found their way to Hollywood. Musicians such as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Bronisław Kaper, Irving Berlin, and Dimitri Tiomkin established their distinctive musical voice there. Trained in the European classical tradition, they fused it with American culture and the idioms of jazz. Bridging the legacy of the “world of yesterday” and the spirit of modernity, they helped shape the art of film scoring and left an enduring imprint on Hollywood’s Golden Age (1930s–1960s). Au début du 20e siècle, l’antisémitisme des régimes totalitaires pousse de nombreux compositeurs juifs d’Europe centrale et orientale à l’exil.
