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Author: Hilan Warshaw

Sydney Morning Herald top ten list

March 22, 2014 Hilan Warshaw

10. WAGNER’S JEWS(55 minutes) Unrated 18+ Composer Richard Wagner was famously anti-Semitic, yet Jews were among his strongest supporters during…

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Why Jews Stood Up for Richard Wagner

February 27, 2014 Hilan Warshaw

There’s an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in which Larry David is caught whistling Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” to his wife…

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Wagner’s Jews at Barnard College

December 19, 2013 Hilan Warshaw

Panel discussion of Wagner’s Jews at Barnard  College with Profs. Lydia Goehr and Philip Kitcher (Columbia University), Anne Midgette (The Washington Post),…

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Can we separate art from the man?

November 26, 2013 Hilan Warshaw

While the celebrations marking Richard Wagner’s bicentennial show he is still respected as a composer, the controversy over his notorious…

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A Fascinating Perspective on Wagner’s Attitude to the Jews

October 14, 2013 Hilan Warshaw

It is worth beginning my comments with the publicity blurb for this important new documentary – The German opera composer…

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Moral Maze – BBC Radio

July 31, 2013 Hilan Warshaw

Is Wagner’s music morally tainted by his anti-semitism? Engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Melanie…

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One Day (in French)

June 4, 2013 Hilan Warshaw

Sometimes, on TV, two programs broadcast on two different channels intersect and respond to each other. That evening, on Arte, Wagner’s Jews ,…

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They called him the Rabbi von Bayreuth

May 19, 2013 Hilan Warshaw

The New York filmmaker Hilan Warshaw asked around again on the subject of “Richard Wagner and the Jews”: his documentation…

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April 8, 2021
Through the Darkness
Hilan Warshaw is producing and directing a new documentary about composer Arnold Schoenberg and painter Richard Gerstl in co-production with ...
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February 24, 2021
Mahler in New York
Hilan is currently directing and writing the documentary MAHLER IN NEW YORK for broadcast on SVT. Enjoy this sneak preview: ...
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February 24, 2021
Directing multicamera concerts for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
The ASO team does not merely stand there and let the cameras run. Instead, this filmed concert features imaginative and ...
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