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Lost for years, the music of The Tiger Who Came to Tea author’s mother is heard again
Descendants of Julia Kerr gather for recital at Einstein’s summer house near Berlin where revived opera was set
TL;DR
- Julia Kerr's opera "Chronoplan," started in the late 1920s, has been revived and performed nearly 100 years after its creation.
- Kerr fled Nazi Germany with her family in 1933, which ended her composing career.
- Her works were rediscovered miscataloged in archives and are now being performed by singer-actor Ruth Rosenfeld and pianist Norbert Biermann.
- Descendants gathered at Albert Einstein's former summer house in Caputh, Germany, where the opera was set, to celebrate Kerr's life.
- There is a growing public and scholarly interest in forgotten female composers, including Julia Kerr.
- Kerr's daughter, Judith Kerr, mentioned her mother's piano playing in her autobiographical novel "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit."