In Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance, award-winning critic and historian Jeremy Eichler explores music as a vessel for memory, revealing how composers like Strauss, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, and Britten inscribed the legacies of war and loss into their scores. With a scholar’s insight and a storyteller’s grace, Eichler uncovers how the sounds of the past continue to shape our present.
This event will be moderated by author and former New York Times correspondent Alan Riding.
About the speakers:
Jeremy Eichler is an award-winning writer, critic and cultural historian who served for 18 years as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe. His recent book Time’s Echo — named “History Book of the Year” by The Sunday Times — won the 2024 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award as well as three National Jewish Book Awards. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Radcliffe Institute, he currently teaches at Tufts University and serves as the first Writer-in-Residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Alan Riding is a former correspondent of the New York Times, having been variously based in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris, most recently as the paper’s European arts correspondent. He is author of books on Mexico, Shakespeare, Opera and the cultural life of Paris during the Nazi occupation. He lives in Paris with his journalist wife, Marlise Simons.
