‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland

American saxophonist Coleman Hawkins announces and plays – accompanied by Leo de la Fuente on piano – on his tenor saxophone ‘I wished that I were twins’.

In 1934, Coleman Hawkins left the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and Amerika, moved to Europe, and joined the Jack Hylton Orchestra in England. Hylton and his band made regular ‘continental’ tours, and started another European tour January 1935 accompanied by Coleman Hawkins in Holland. At the end of January 1935 Hawkins joins the dutch band The Rambers … for 8 days … because Hawkins was denied entry to Germany because of his race, while Hylton and his band continued their tour without him and play for eight days at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.

To end this special week with Hawkins well, the bandleader of The Ramblers – Theo Uden Masman – arranged with Decca for recordings 4 february 1935 in Pulchri Studio in The Hague, Holland, including this : I wish I were twins…that was also recorded on film by Polygoon (Polygoontoon) for the dutch cinema news for next week .

Coleman Hawkins is accomponied here on film by the dutch jazz pioneer Leo de la Fuente on piano , playing ‘I wished that I were twins’ . After the recordings, Hawkins moves further into Europe.

Leo – Leonard Henriques – de la Fuente, who was born Jewish in Amsterdam 28 March 1902, was deported by the nazi’s to Auschwitz on 2 November 1942, and died 30 April 1944 ‘somewhere in Mid Europe’.

References

About Leonard Henriques de la Fuente, his wife Hendrika de Vries and his daughters Benvenida and Mietje. Joods Monument. URL https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/680262/about-leonard-henriques-de-la-fuente-his-wife-hendrika-de-vries-and

Biografie Leo de la Fuente. Muziekencyclopedie.nl | Beeld & Geluid. URL https://www.muziekencyclopedie.nl/action/entry/Leo+de+la+Fuente

The Hawk in Holland. Jacky de Vries. Theater Sentiment – De verhalen over de artiesten van weleer – Jaargang 3 Nummer 4. URL https://theatersentiment.nl/the-hawk-in-holland/

Jack Hylton 1892-1965. Abaigh McKee. Politics & Propaganda | Music and the Holocaust | URL https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/jack-hylton/

Film edited from source (video footage) : Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (Polygoontoon, producer) dutch cinema news reel week 7 , 1935 | Sound & Vision (Open Images)

Citation : ‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland | 20231123 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | TakeNode 4f388407-5ccc-4816-aef6-6064fcee35b2

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Berceuse | Yves Darriet | Susanne Marie Wrage | Radio SRF 2 Kultur | 20230911

Lullaby by Yves Darriet

(Translation. Miracles•Media)

From the old forest
They dragged the night,
And the wind danced in your hair.

Your fingers die in the evening,
Already in your sky
the stars wander.

From “Far-away-from-love”
they dragged the night.

My shadow dances in your dream.

Yves Darriet (Pseudonym Jean Roland)

Berceuse by Yves Darriet , from Anthologie des poèmes de Buchenwald , collected by André Verdet in Buchenwald (Ref 1), in a 2013 German translation by Wulf Kirsten and Annette Seemann : Wiegenlied (Ref 2).

Wiegenlied – Reading by Susanne Marie Wrage — an actor with a background in Documentary theater – in the June 2013 Passage – Lyrik aktuell broadcast by Radio SRF 2 Kultur (Ref 3, 4) .

Berceuse

De la vieille forêt
Ils ont portè la nuit,
Et le vent a dansé dans tes cheveux.

Tes doigts meurent au soir,
Dans ton ciel déjà
Les ètoiles cheminent.

De plus loin que l’amour
Ils ont porté la nuit.

Mon ombre danse dans ton rêve.

Wiegenlied

Aus dem alten Wald
Schleppten sie die Nacht her,
Und der Wind tanzte in deinem Haar.

Deine Finger sterben am Abend,
Schon in deinem Himmel
Wandern die Sterne.

Von «Weit-weg-von-der-Liebe»
Schleppten sie die Nacht her.

Mein Schatten tanzt in deinem Traum.

REFS

1. Anthologie des poèmes de Buchenwald by André Verdet (R. Laffont) 1946

2. Wulf Kirsten und Annette Seemann, Hrsg. und Übers., Der gefesselte Wald: Gedichte aus Buchenwald, Französisch-Deutsche Ausgabe, Mainzer Reihe N.F. 11 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2013).

3. Passage 5.6.2013 . Lyrik aktuell . Radio SRF 2 Kultur . URL https://www.srf.ch/static/radio/modules/data/attachments/2013/130605_passage_lyrik.pdf

4. Lyrik aktuell – Moderation: Felix Schneider. Reading by Susanne Marie Wrage (actor with background in Documentary theater). Radio SRF 2 Kultur. URL https://www.srf.ch/audio/passage/lyrik-aktuell?id=10267793#autoplay

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Rhythmus Jazz Buchenwald | 20230910

Rhythmus was a jazz orchestra in the Buchenwald concentration camp in which a total of 23 musicians from 9 different countries played together from 1943 until the liberation.
Czech prisoners around Jiří Žák took the initiative to found this orchestra in the summer of 1943.

Among the French prisoners that later joined, were Yves Darriet – the bandleader , who wrote most arrangements , and Robert Widerman – the band’s singer , who made a career as Robert Clary on Broadway after the war.

Two programs are known to have been performed in November 1944 and April 19, 1945, i.e. 8 days after the liberation of the camp (Ref 1) , including compositions by Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and pieces by Cole Porter, Fats Waller, Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong. In The Mood was performed even though this music was banned in Nazi Germany.

Ref. 3 – Jazz im KZ Buchenwald – das gab es wirrklich! | weimarer-rendezvous | Sep 25, 2022 | URL https://youtu.be/HX4X7TJ19nQ

„Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald

At the April 11, 2022 event ‘„Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald’ — in the Notenbank in Weimar, Germany (Ref 2, 3) — the Big Band and a jazz ensemble of the Hochschule für Musik under the direction of Prof. Gero Schmidt-Oberländer performed 9 or 10 pieces from the programs. In addition biographies of the prisoners in the Buchenwald Jazz Orchestra were made visible using excerpts from their letters and reports.

Ref. 4 – Rhythmus | From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story | 20230910 | weimarer-rendezvous | Michel van der Burg | URL https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxqc0jZDzWciMjfefJ0IbMLsnAeaW0Do4U

The French singer Robert Widerman ( Robert Clary ) was shown in a clip (Ref 4) from the documentary film From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story (Ref 5).
Robert Clary (March 1, 1926 – Nov 16, 2022) survived thanks to several prisoners, including Yves Darriet (pseudonym Jan Rolan, Jean Roland), Claude Francis-Boeuf, and Jiří Žák. (Ref 6)

Ref. 6 – Rhythmus | Robert Clary saved by Yves Darriet, Claude Francis-Boeuf, Jiří Žák in Buchenwald | 20230910 | weimarer-rendezvous | Michel van der Burg | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXvk60NXXvjBEkctI0vzWGrTU9aojucac

REFS

1. Rhythmus | 20221117 | Miracles.Media | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2022/11/17/rhythmus-20221117/

2. „Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald | 11 April 2022 | Event by the Weimar festival Rendez-vous with History and the Institut Français in cooperation with the Buchenwald Memorial and the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. | URL https://www.institutfrancais.de/fr/thueringen/event/rhythmus-lorchestre-de-jazz-au-camp-de-concentration-de-buchenwald-20279#/

3. Jazz im KZ Buchenwald – das gab es wirrklich! | weimarer-rendezvous | Sep 25, 2022 | URL https://youtu.be/HX4X7TJ19nQ

5. From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story by Karen and Richard Bloom and Michel van der Burg | 2023 Edition | 20230202 | URL https://youtu.be/0tKc5T-Sw-E

Citation : Rhythmus Jazz Buchenwald | 20230910 | Miracles.Media

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刹那即永恒 – One Minute is Eternal ~ Book ~ The One Minutes | 20230822

CATALOGUE One Minute is Eternal.pdf (17.6 MB)

The pdf edition of the catalogue book One Minute is Eternal is available for download via this link above by The One Minutes.

More info and a film on the January 28th 2020 book presentation have been posted 20200131 : michelvanderburg.com/2020/01/31

刹那即永恒 – One Minute is Eternal ~ Book ~ The One Minutes | 20230822 | Miracles•Media

Starfighter Photography Prohibited ! Bio 1965 | 20230729

Starfighter Photography Prohibited ! Bio 1965 | 20230729 | Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | Photography not allowed here in 1965 where I – at the age of 13 – took this low-flying fighter jet picture hiding in the heath on a trip around our summer camp – first year highschool Aloysius College – at the Tranchée in forest and heathland between Weert and Budel in the south of the Netherlands near the border with Belgium. The camera – a Voigtländer Vito camera (no light meter / no rangefinder / fixed lens / viewfinder) – was a 13 birthday gift earlier that year – that I used here for my short first ‘reportage’. | TakeNode 9245cb78-da77-4069-879e-74a01b52fdb5

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PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728

Images from the Westerborkfilm have been used countless times in documentaries and films about the Second World War. Here images screening in the virtual opera PUSH – based on the story of Simon Gronowski – an 11 year old Jewish boy who was pushed from the train – Transport XX – by his mother on the way to Auschwitz — Video clip https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsM6Rj_HB0xEh4TksbjhIm4EzY81dc4H0

A virtual performance, during the April 2020 Corona virus lockdown, of the epilogue of the community opera PUSH , entitled : Ma Vie N’est Que Miracles | My life is only miracles – hosted by composer Howard Moody. It premiered on the night of the 19th April 2020, exactly 77 years after three Brussels resistance heroes stopped the Nazi train Transport XX, transporting 1600 Jewish deportees to Auschwitz, and more than 200 prisoners escaped from the train before the German border. Info : michelvanderburg.com/2020/04/19 .

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Kazerne Dossin | Westerborkfilm Images #1 | 20230727

Images from the Westerborkfilm have been used countless times in documentaries and films about the Second World War.
Here Westerborkfilm images – clips – screening semi-permanent ten years ago (Feb. 2013) in a museum introduction film (on holocaust, genocides, discrimination, diversity, rights) on one of the huge columns in the entrance hall of the Kazerne Dossin museum in Mechelen, Belgium (a few months after opening of the new Kazerne Dossin building). Note, shortly after this outbound deportation transport to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz, had left the Westerbork transit camp on May 19, 1944, the train paused at the nearby railway station of the dutch town Assen, where train cars were added from Belgian Transport XXV (25) with 508 deportees, Jews and the Roma deportee Stevo Caroli, from transit camp Kazerne Dossin (Dossin barracks) in Mechelen, and this combined transport with Jews, Sinti and Roma, including Settela Steinbach, continues to the east…to the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps. Stevo Caroli survives Auschwitz-Birkenau. After returning to Belgium, Stevo Caroli’s request for a certificate, necessary for the compensation for political deportees or work refusers, is refused by the Belgian Aliens Police for racial reasons ( kazernedossin.memorial/biografie/stevo-karoli/ ).

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