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Curtain up!

出版	Matthias Henke, 2021
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yYbIzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Music patron, concert manager, salonière, and writer of letters - Emmy Rubensohn embodies them all. Born into the Jewish Frank family in Leipzig in 1884, she was a passionate concertgoer from a young age. In particular, she was drawn to concerts at the Gewandhaus, where she eagerly collected the autographs of artists such as Carl Reinecke, Arthur Nikisch, Felix Weingartner, Nellie Melba, and Lillie Lehmann. In 1907, she married Ernst Rubensohn, director of a jute spining mill, and moved to Kassel to b with him. The couple's home became a cultural meeting place frequented by the likes of Wilhelm Furtwängler, the composer Walter Braunfels, and painters Oskar Kokoschka and Erich Heckel. A stroke of luck for all concerned : In 1925, the Rubensphns invited Austrian composer Ernst Krenek, who had accepted a position at the Staatstheater Kasse, to stay in their villa free of charge. The young man thanked his hots by completing his opera Jonny spielt auf while living under their roof. This in turn brought Emmy Rubensohn ack to Leipzig, where her protégé's opus was premiered in 1927 (with the Gewandhausorchester under Gustav Brecher) from there, it went on to become an overnight global success. Then came the year of horrors: 1933, in which the Rubensohns, like so many, were subjected to the wors kind of victimisation. When a de facto ban was imposed on Jewish artists, Emmy founded the Jüdische Kulturbund Kassel (Kassel Jewish Cultural Association), for which she organised dozens of concerts with eminent musicians including conductor Joseph Rosenstock, whom she would later meet again in New York. But it was only after the pogroms of 1938 that the couple decided to emigrate. They moved to Berlin, and from tehre fled to Shanghai in 1940, where they spent seven years. emmy and Ernst Rubensohn endured great hardships during this time, but never lost their appreciation for Chinese culture. Not unitl 1947 did they reach their desired destination, the USA and NewYork. Following her husband's death (1951), Emmy succeeded in establishing a new circle of friends, among them conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos and alma Mahler-Werfel. She was also reunited with Ernst Krenek, who had likewise emigrated to the USA. In this way, her life came full circle - in resilient defiance of the National Socialists. My biographical account is based upon Emmy Rubensohn's Gäste- und Erinnerungsbuch (guest -book, memory album).