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With 'Time's Echo' Boston Globe classical music critic Jeremy Eichler explores the music of memory

Jeremy Eichler is the author of "Time's Echo." (Tom Kates)
Jeremy Eichler is the author of "Time's Echo." (Tom Kates)

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Boston Globe classical music critic Jeremy Eichler about his new book “Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust and the Music of Remembrance.” In the book Eichler examines works by Strauss, Schoenberg, Britten, and Shostakovich.

The cover of “Time’s Echo” by Jeremy Eichler. (Courtesy of Knopf)

Book excerpt: ‘Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust and the Music of Remembrance’

By Jeremy Eichler

Excerpted from “Time’s Echo” by Jeremy Eichler. Copyright © 2023 by Jeremy Eichler. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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