Music of The Tiger Who Came to Tea author’s mother heard again

Albert Einstein throws a party at his lakeside house and presents his latest invention: a time machine. That opening scene comes from Chronoplan, an opera begun in the late 1920s by composer Julia Kerr. She carried the incomplete score with her when she fled Nazi Germany in early 1933 and the planned premiere was halted after Hitler’s takeover, a dramatic break that effectively ended her composing career.

Descendants recently gathered in the garden of Einstein’s former summer house in Caputh, where Chronoplan was set, to celebrate Julia Kerr’s life and work. Compositions that had been wrongly catalogued and left in archives were performed by singer-actor Ruth Rosenfeld and pianist Norbert Biermann, who reconstructed parts of the material.

Germany, Caputh

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