Alex Ross writes an article discussing composers whose music was suppressed by the Nazi regime, mentioning Conlon’s efforts to recover the music of Alexander Zemlinsky. Read the full piece here.
“As it happens, I had recently seen Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg” (“The Dwarf”) at L.A. Opera, whose music director, James Conlon, is a tireless advocate of composers who lost their careers—and sometimes their lives—to the Nazis.”