I am delighted to be acting as musicological cohost for this special Salon de Musiques concert celebrating Jewish composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The program offers both the familiar and the relatively unknown: Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 2, Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A Minor, and Robert Kahn’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (US Premiere). While the Nazi regime posthumously denigrated and banned music by Mendelssohn and Mahler, Kahn (1865–1951)—a Berlin composer whose works were performed by A-list talents such as Hans von Bülow and the Joachim Quartet—suffered directly from the venomous, anti-Semitic climate of the time.

The program features violinist Yueun Gemma Kim, violist Nao Kubota, cellist Michael Kaufman, and pianist Dominic Cheli, Representatives from the Anti-Defamation League will also speak at the event.