 Entartete MusikVHS (NTSC) Decca 440 074 201-3 Color, 35:00 (Gift of Belmont Music Publishers) Produced and directed by Beata Romanowski Executive producer: Didier de Cottignies A Video Express Production |
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| Time | Description | |
| 0:00 | Photos of "degenerate" composers | |
| 0:50 | Urban scenes from 1930s, voice-over discusses persecution of Jewish and avant-garde composers under the Nazis | |
| 1:40 | Decca is bringing out a new series of works devoted to works stamped
"degenerate" by the Nazis:
"Entartete Musik: music suppressed by the third reich" |
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| 2:30 | Scenes of Europe in the 1920s; energetic artistic life | |
| 3:25 | Interview with Berthold Goldschmidt, composer | |
| 3:50 | Cultural life in the Weimar Republic | |
| 4:20 | Interview with Norman Lebrecht, writer on music | |
| 4:40 | Goldschmidt | |
| 5:00 | Cabaret and film production in Berlin | |
| 6:30 | Photo of Schoenberg conducting in Berlin; one of many composers forging new paths at the time | |
| 7:10 | Discussion of two operas: Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane, and Krenek's Jonny spielt auf | |
| 8:20 | Interview with John Mauceri, conductor | |
| 9:45 | Scenes from a production of Jonny spielt auf (Graz, 1980) | |
| 10:25 | Interview with Lothar Zagrosek, conductor | |
| 11:15 | Interview with Ernst Krenek, composer | |
| 12:15 | Zagrosek, scenes from Jonny spielt auf | |
| 13:00 | Dance music, Nazi agitation, party marches, Nürnberg rallies | |
| 15:00 | Footage of Thomas Mann reading a statement after his arrival in the US (New York, 1938) | |
| 15:40 | Goebbels addressing crowd, book burning | |
| 16:15 | Lebrecht | |
| 16:40 | Goebbels speaking on "German art" | |
| 17:15 | Hitler speaking on degenerate art and scenes of the Munich exhibition | |
| 18:45 | Scenes of the new, approved artistic style | |
| 19:30 | Interview with Albrecht Dümling, musicologist | |
| 19:40 | Scenes of Nazi Vienna; exhibition of degenerate music in Düsseldorf | |
| 20:00 | Dümling | |
| 20:15 | Goldschmidt | |
| 20:25 | Lebrecht | |
| 21:00 | Poster against Krenek's opera | |
| 21:15 | Zagrosek | |
| 22:00 | Footage of deportation of Jews to the camps | |
| 23:00 | Lebrecht | |
| 23:30 | Scenes from a production of Hans Krasa's children's opera Brundibár (Theresienstadt, 1941) | |
| 24:00 | Nazi propaganda films of Theresienstadt | |
| 25:00 | Exodus of Jewish musicians | |
| 25:30 | Lebrecht | |
| 26:15 | Scenes of emigres in America, including Schoenberg and Mann at Malibu party | |
| 27:00 | Discussion of Korngold and Waxman's activities as film composers | |
| 27:50 | Mauceri; scenes from films for which they composed scores | |
| 28:50 | Liberation of Germany; post-war devastation | |
| 29:45 | Mauceri; reaction against "emotional" composition | |
| 30:00 | Lebrecht, discussing the importance of Pierre Boulez and Karl Heinz Stockhausen in the post-war musical world | |
| 30:35 | Zagrosek, discussing Goldschmidt | |
| 31:20 | Goldschmidt | |
| 32:00 | Goldschmidt performing his own piano works | |
| 33:20 | Credits: list of forthcoming releases, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder plays in background | |
| 35:00 | End | |