Werner Herbers, Ebony Band, Lilia Mirek, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra - Achtung, Aufnahme!!: Ebony Band - Import CD

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Werner Herbers, Ebony Band, Lilia Mirek, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

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The Ebony Band, led by oboist and conductor Werner Herbels, has been actively engaged in the discovery and presentation of absurdist, jazz-influenced music that emerged in Europe between the two world wars and was scattered after being stigmatized as "decadent" by the Nazis. The band has been dedicated to discovering and presenting these works, which were scattered after being stigmatized as "decadent music" by the Nazis. Over the course of 32 years, he has given more than 200 concerts, published dozens of compositions, and released 15 CDs (including 11 on CHANNEL CLASSICS), which have been transferred to the Netherlands Music Institute in The Hague, where they are archived for public access. The archive has been transferred to the Netherlands Music Institute in The Hague, where it is being preserved for public access. The archive has been transferred to the Netherlands Music Institute in The Hague, where it will be preserved for public access. Born in Vienna, the son of a Jewish merchant, Wilhelm Gross studied composition with Schreker and composed symphonies, chamber music, and numerous works for the stage. In his later years, after fleeing Nazi persecution, he moved to the United States and composed popular music under the pseudonym of Hugh Williams, including "Harbour Lights," sung by Presley, and "Red Sails in the Sunset," covered by the Beatles. He died of a heart attack in his mid-40s. His short opera "Achtung, Aufnahme! was premiered in 1930. It depicts the messy filming of a movie with music in the jazz idiom. Walter Gale, who had studied under Schoenberg and worked as a conductor and theater music composer in Berlin, also lost his job because of his Jewish background and moved to England, where he worked under the name George Walter. His 1930 revue, Komodien in Europa, was an ironic comment on the League of Nations and the world economy.Born in Budapest, Matthias Scheibel (Matthias Cyber) studied with Kodály and then traveled the world as a cellist in a cruise ship orchestra, learning a wide variety of music and teaching the first German jazz class at the conservatory in Frankfurt. He was also a teacher of jazz at the conservatory in Frankfurt when the first German jazz class was established there. He collaborated with a composer named Mihai Szigeti on the radio drama "Die vertauschten Manuskripte," which aired in 1931, in which a man who is in a relationship with two different women, one uninhibited and the other pure-hearted, gives the music he wrote for each to the other. The absurd story of two women who discover a new side of themselves in doing so is accompanied throughout the film by a jazz band. The two works by Gehl and Scheibel are included in an edition arranged by Herbels that condenses the essence of the works. Naxos Japan