Jeremy Eichler's Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Time's Echo is a new genre-blurring book about how culture bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past. Named "History Book of the Year" by The Sunday Times and described as "the outstanding music book of this and several years" by The Times Literary Supplement, it also won three National Jewish Book Awards and was hailed by the jury as "a groundbreaking achievement in memorial history." Join us for a wide-ranging conversation as panelists reflect on the book's case for music's role in the history of memory, how monuments in sound differ from monuments in stone, the writing of public history, and how art remembers what societies would like to forget. 

Panelists: Jeremy Eichler (Author of Time's Echo and the Chief Classicial Music Critic of The Boston Globe), Ruth Franklin (Biographer, journalist, literary critica and the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction), James Loeffler (Felix Posen Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University), and Todd Presner (Chair and Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles).