|
|
|
Jonathan Kirsch reviews "A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California," Dorothy Lamb Crawford's study of the 1930s emigres to Los Angeles such as Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Otto Klemperer. Excerpt from the LAT:
To spare themselves from a culture war that soon turned into a shooting war, artists, writers and composers -- both Jews and non-Jews -- began to flee the continent in search of a safe haven. Because the movie industry had started making "talkies" a few years earlier, Southern California turned out to be such a place....Crawford's book will have the greatest appeal for readers with a special interest in music, but it is also an important contribution to the history of Southern California. Indeed, the legacy of these survivors transcends their life stories and continues to shape the cultural landscape to this day.
Book note: Richard Rayner will talk about "A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age" on Which Way, L.A.? at 7:30 p.m. on KCRW.
© 2003-2009 • About LA Observed • Email the editor
| The economy has hurt most every demographic there is, but for those who are young, less educated and black it's really bad.
| Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!
| She gaped at me like I was living history -- Miss Jane Pittman come to put her withered lips to the "Young Only" fountain straw of ageism.
As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
Sponsors
Blogads
Get RSS Feeds
of LA Observed
of LA Observed
LA Observed publishes several Real Simple Syndication feeds for easy scanning of headlines. If you wish to subscribe to a feed, most popular RSS readers will do it for you. You can also enter the web address from the XML button below or click on a specific feed. For more help with RSS, try here or here.
