This exhibition will highlight Ben Uri’s musical heritage whilst revealing powerful stories of émigrés and emerging second generation musicians, such as the Austrian pianist Ferdinand Rauter and polyglot Lieder singer Engel Lund, who stood up to antisemitism in Germany in the 1930s by refusing to stop performing Yiddish songs. Other émigré musicians featured in the display include Yehudi Menuhin, Thomas Rajna, Franz Reizenstein, Emanuel Hurwitz and Paul Hamburger.
Ben Uri not only organised regular recitals but had its own orchestra, chamber orchestra, choir and opera appreciation circle, which even today is unique within the context of an art gallery. Furthermore, Ben Uri brought art and music together: Alexander Goehr, who came to England as a small child, premiered a new composition in 1953, only a year after his photographer mother Laelia Goehr had exhibited her works at the Ben Uri Gallery.
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze