×Frankly Music’s 'Voices Unforgotten'

Frankly Music’s “Voices Unforgotten” is a program is presented in partnership with Violins of Hope – Wisconsin.

Frankly Music opens this season with compositions by two Jewish composers whose lives and voices were silence by the Nazis. The first composition, “Duo for Violin and Cello, WV 75,” was composed by Erwin Schulhoff in 1925. Schulhoff was born in Prague in 1894 and fought in World War I for the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was encouraged by Dvořák, studied with Debussy and was influenced by jazz and the avant-garde including Dadaism.

The Duo is an emotional tour-de-force making use of the full range of the two instruments’ capabilities for sounds and harmonics. Using jazz-like rhythms, it incorporates folk-like tunes. Schulhoff is a contemporar

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