A pairing of works by two composers who exemplify pushing back against oppressive systems; both operate at the interventions oscillating between poles of hemispheric influence; both are embedded in film-music; the embrace of colloquial and popular musical idioms; the strategic blueprint of stylistic integrity; the yearning for home.

(post-script)

Having settled in Los Angeles in 1938, Eisler and his wife were deported after being blacklisted by the US House Committee on Un-American Activities in March 1948. His statement when leaving from LaGuardia Airport went as follows:

"I leave this country not without bitterness and infuriation. I could well understand it when in 1933 the Hitler bandits put a price on my head and drove me out. They were the evil of the period; I was proud at being driven out. But I feel heartbroken over being driven out of this beautiful country in this ridiculous way."

View Negrón ⎮ Eisler in the digital garden.