This concert explores works by composers who fled for their lives from the Nazis to the USA. All works programmed were written during the composers' years in diaspora, reflecting upon their attempt at assimilation, their yearning for a lost homeland and, sometimes, protest.

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 3 Shepardic Songs
Ernst Krenek Clarinet Trio op.108
Franz Waxman Memories of Childhood
Darius Milhaud String Quartet no.13
Ernst Toch Adagio for clarinet & piano
Arnold Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Concert will be preceded by a talk given by talk by Dr Michael Haas, Senior Researcher at Exil Arte Zentrum in Vienna, Austria.

Violins: Jack Liebeck, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Benjamin Roskams
Cello: Adrian Brendel
Tenor: Alex Aldren
Clarinet: Jessica Lee
Piano: Danny Driver, Yoshie Kawamura