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Jeremy Eichler, the author of Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance comes to Houston for an evening of music and conversation.

Time’s Echo, a genre-blurring meditation on music, war, and memory, has been named History Book of the Year by The Sunday Times and hailed as “the outstanding music book of this and several years” by The Times Literary Supplement. Pianist and DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and DACAMERA Young Artists will perform Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, and Sarah Rothenberg will lead a discussion with the author.

Celebrating the DACAMERA Young Artist Program

Astrid Nakamura, violin; Chris Ellis, cello; Sarah Rothenberg, piano

Prior to the program, guests are invited to view the Menil’s new acquisition, The Great Feast, 1964, a large-scale painting by Polish-born American artist Si Lewen, on view in the museum’s Surrealism galleries.

The work depicts a wartime repast, as revelers devour their neighbors in a room teeming with vermin. The composition’s background of imitation gilding recalls earlier religious paintings, while collaged elements, culled from magazines and newspapers, reference Pop Art and the role of mass media in societal developments. Lewen served in the American military during World War II. The trauma of working at the Buchenwald concentration camp days after it was liberated devastated him, and he dedicated his life to pacifism and anti-war statements. In the 1950s, Albert Einstein praised Lewen’s use of art to counteract the human tendency toward destruction.

Seating for this program is limited. To register, please visit the DACAMERA website here.

This program takes place in the main building, located at 1533 Sul Ross Street. Additional information regarding accessibility and parking can be found here.

As always, Menil programs are free and open to all.