Dorothy Lamb Crawford, A Windfall of Musicians

Start: 11/10/2009 7:00 pm

"Dorothy Crawford provides both a wealth of fascinating detail and a convincing narrative sweep. She is ideally positioned to illuminate this crucial strand in American cultural history"

Steven Stucky, Cornell University

"The focus of world culture shifted in the years preceding World War II when the cream of the European artistic population fled from Hitler's Nazism. The dramatic stories of these creative musical emigres in America comes alive for the first time in Crawford's carefully researched and fascinating book."

Vivian Perlis, Yale University

Dorothy Lamb Crawford has lived and worked in music throughout her career, teaching and lecturing, performing as a singer, directing opera, and hosting broadcast interviews with musicians. She is author of Evenings On and Off the Roof: Pioneering Concerts in Los Angeles, 1939-1971 and (with John C. Crawford) Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music. A resident of Southern California for 24 years, she now lives in Cambridge, MA.