Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe is BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week for a fortnight. Art historian John-Paul Stonard's ...

Afghan-born singer Amir Vafa lifts his voice above the orchestra. “Oh, bitter pain!” he sings in near-perfect German. “My home! I shall never see you again!” The song, Das Heimweh (homesickness) by ...

The opening act of the recent Eighth International Klezmer Festival here was a Berlin-based band called Sukke. The group was billed as the “first German all-star klezmer band,” but none of its four ...

This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Raabe of the Palast Orchester, which keeps pre-World War II German jazz alive for modern audiences. In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and ...

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A FOLK band has begun its journey through Oxfordshire and is hoping strangers will offer them somewhere to stay. German string band Ensemble Unterwegs is relying on the hospitality of strangers as ...