Émigré Cabaret performances in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Bristol and Salzburg
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Norbert's cabaret programme with music by composers who fled the Nazis to Britain has been heard in different parts of the world throughout 2025. It presents songs discovered through research at the Royal College of Music, for example by Kindertransport refugee Eric Sanders, who wrote uplifting and melancholic songs to his own text during and after his service in the Special Operations Executive of the British Army, as well as excerpts from the bilingual comic internment revue 'What a Life!' written by Hans Gal during the internment of Austro-German refugees as enemy aliens on the Isle of Man in 1940. The programme also includes some more 'classical' songs by fellow Émigrés Robert Kahn and Karl Rankl.
After performing the programme during a tour to Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne on invitation of the Austrian Embassy in Australia, Norbert has also worked with music students in Bristol University and the Mozarteum Salzburg to pass on the repertoire to the next generation.
The Bristol performance on November 8, 2025, was the result of a collaboration initiated by Prof. Florian Scheding, author of the award-winning book Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-century Music.
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