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Elysium’s 40th Season: Remember – For the Future!

Review: “Innovators in Exile”

Lastly, thank you to all our supporters who helped to make this festival a reality. Your support was crucial to making Innovators in Exile possible.

However, the conclusion of this festival isn’t the end of Elysium Between Two Continent’s work to illuminate the work of these important artists. Elysium is still dedicated to eliminating hatred and discrimination through the means of art. We will continue to work to bring these beautiful musical masterpieces to light so that contemporary audiences in the U.S. and in Europe have the chance to experience the joy and beauty inherent in these works.

If you’d like to continue to support this important mission, consider making a one-time or recurring donation today: All donations are fully tax-deductible. Please scroll down to the bottom of this mail and use the button there.

Thank you again for supporting Elysium Between Two Continent’s mission and we can’t wait to continue this important work with you.

With best regards,

Michael Lahr von Leitis

David Brown, Director of Public History at the Leo Baeck Institute, welcomed the audience to the first concert, held on April 20 at the Forchheim Auditorium of the Center for Jewish History.

Musicologist and producer Dr. Michael Haas, co-founder of the Exilarte Center, was on hand from Vienna to speak before the concert about the founding of the International Society for New Music 100 years ago in Salzburg.

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Frederick who lives for part of the year in The Netherlands and also has a UK base in Cheshire – has been involved in peace activism since the early 1980’s, and is the Founder and President of Children of the World 2000, a not for profit organisation supported by the International Peace Bureau and UNESCO.

He is patron of several NGOs including the Earth Focus Foundation in Switzerland, the Lady Geertruide School Project in Haiti and the World Peace Gardens Network.

After leaving university the prince joined the family firm, an import-export business, and was also involved in publishing, travel writing and photography. His present work is as a World Peace Emissary and he is a Fellow of the International Institute of Peace Studies & Global Philosophy.

We met with the prince at the UN General Assembly in the Fall of 2002 together with Dame Jane Goodall a UN Messenger for Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall and Roots n’ Shoots initiative.

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Isabella is a student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. As a high school student at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Connecticut, she was the Senior Editor and Executive Director for the Broadcast Journalism Course and received many journalism awards including Finalist at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle, Washington, in 2013 for I Love You Bear. She also created four public service announcements, and two documentaries: Natural Disasters: Haiti and Striving For Greatness: Twin Lakes Farm. She is fluent in French and received the La Comtesse Nathalie d’Esterno Prix d’Excellence 2014 for excellence in French Studies. In addition, she has won many equitation awards including Champion, Saugerties Children’s Hunter Division, Saugerties, New York, and Top Ten, Low Hunter Division and Top Five Children’s Equitation Division, Fairfield-Westchester Professional Horseman’s Association. Isabella was also the President of the Cleats for Kids Club at Convent of the Sacred Heart and a volunteer at the Padre Pio Shelter, a shelter for homeless men in the Bronx.

Miss Isabella Maria Luisa von Habsburg-Lothringen’s father, the Archduke Geza von Habsburg-Lothringen is an internationally renowned author and leading authority on Fabergé. He is the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and Princess Anna of Saxony, the grandson of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and the great-great grandson of Emperor Franz-Joseph I of Austria. Her mother, the Archduchess Elizabeth von Habsburg-Lothringen is the Managing Director of the Winston Art Group. Her great-grandfather, Albert Kunstadter, founded Formfit, and her family runs the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, a New York-based philanthropy.
The International Debutante Ball, founded in 1954, is considered one of the most prestigious debutante presentations. Young women of distinction from all over the country and around the globe are brought together at the ball and the surrounding parties with daughters of Diplomats, titled Europeans, Ambassadors, Governors and Presidents of the United States. Over the years, the ball has benefited numerous charities through the International Debutante Ball Foundation, including one of its major beneficiaries, the Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York, which provides a home away from home for the men and women of our Armed Services

FORTY-SIX WOMEN MADE THEIR BOWS AT THE 60th INTERNATIONAL DEBUTANTE BALL Monday, December 29th, 2014

Forty-six women of distinction from the United States and abroad made their bows to society at the 60th Anniversary of the International Debutante Ball. The debutantes represented Austria, China, England, Hong Kong, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and twelve American states. Each debutante was accompanied by her own escort in white tie and tails, and a military cadet who carried the flag of the country or state which she represented. This year there were five sets of sisters.

Sponsored by Piaget, and The Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation the Ball benefits go to The International Debutante Ball Foundation which supports numerous charities. The primary charity is The Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club, a home away from home for the military and their families. Partial support will go to the American Ballet Theater, Friends of Versailles and the American Theater Wing among others.

The ball was founded in 1954 by Beatrice Dinsmore Joyce as a charity and the tradition continues today directed by her niece, Mrs. Gregory Scott Hedberg, Director and General Chairman. This year the Honorary Chairmen were Ms. Anne Eisenhower, Mrs. David R. Hamilton and Ms. Julia Irene Kauffman and Ball Chairmen included Mrs. Andrew E. Beer, Mrs. Spencer Neville Brown, Mrs. Ryland E.D. Chase, Mrs. D. David Eisenhower, Ms. Susan Eisenhower, and Mrs. William Dean McNaughton

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Says the President of Shapiro Bernstein, Michael Brettler, “We must be doing something right to be in business for 100 years in New York City. In a world of conglomerates, our long term survival as an independent company has been based on the ability to make quick, savvy decisions over many decades. Through four generations, we’ve always been able to adapt to new innovations and challenges, and have strived to maintain very close relationships with our clients and songwriters.”

Incorporated in 1913 (but with roots dating back to the 1890’s), the company began publishing out of offices on Manhattan’s West 28th Street, better known as Tin Pan Alley, in the age of ragtime and vaudeville. The founding partners, Louis Bernstein and Maurice Shapiro, teamed up with composer, Harry Von Tilzer, fresh on the heels of his first hit song, “My Old New Hampshire Home.”

In the years that followed, the company went through many changes and partners before Louis Bernstein, Maurice’s brother-in-law, took over the business after his untimely death in 1911. The name was restored to Shapiro Bernstein & Co., Inc. and that year the company had its first major hit with “Trail of the Lonesome Pine.”

Louis Bernstein went on to become a founding member of ASCAP and serve as its Vice-President for 26 years. During the formative years of the modern music industry, Shapiro Bernstein was a consistently outspoken advocate for the rights of the creative community, engaging as a plaintiff in several landmark cases still cited by specialists in copyright law.

The company was able to adapt to the changing industry of the 1930’s, utilizing favorite bands of the Swing Era, emerging jazz stars, and Hollywood movie musicals to popularize songs that are now considered American classics. Benny Goodman launched “The Glory of Love”; Gene Autry performed “You’re The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)” in three of his films; and Tommy Dorsey launched “In the Blue of the Evening,” sung by a young man named Frank Sinatra. In 1940, Glenn Miller debuted “In the Mood” – which spent 12 weeks at #1 and became perhaps the best-known dance song in American history.

At the close of the 1940’s, Shapiro Bernstein ushered in the era of rock ‘n’ roll with the ground-breaking “Guitar Boogie” by Arthur Smith, and followed it with Fifties and Sixties pop standards like “Cry,” “Papa Loves Mambo,” and “Harlem Nocturne.” When Louis’ son-in-law Dick Voltter took the reins of the company in 1962, he continued to expand the diversity of their catalog, securing rights to and eventually purchasing the Columbia Pictures catalog acquiring score classics like The Guns of Navarone, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia.

Seeing an opportunity in the emerging country music market, the grandson-in-law of Louis Bernstein, Leon Brettler, formed Painted Desert Music and opened a Nashville office in the early 1960’s. It was a move that paid off quickly and continues to pay, yielding hits like “Wolverton Mountain” and the Johnny Cash all-time country classic, “Ring of Fire,” penned by his wife-to-be, June Carter and his best friend, Merle Kilgore.

Today Shapiro Bernstein remains a current leader in the world of independent music publishing and continues to publish songs that top the charts. They actively court new writers and expose their current hit makers to the public and the industry.

Under the leadership of Michael Brettler, who became president in 2000, Shapiro Bernstein is committed to continuing in its long tradition: “I am proud to be at the helm of such an iconic music company which has maintained its role in developing and championing music writers for 100 years. Our songs today are just as much in demand as they ever were, and we represent and publish some of today’s hottest writers and most exciting songs.”

Selection of Shapiro Bernstein Songs

Popular Songs:

Crush
Glory of Love
Harlem Nocturne
I Gotta Feeling
In The Mood
On The Sunny Side of the Street
Put Your Records On
Ring of Fire
Way You Look Tonight
White Cliffs of Dover
Without You
Woo-Hoo
You’re Nobody Til Somebody Loves You

Classic Songs

Alabamy Bound
Beer Barrel Polka
Cherokee
Harlem Nocturne
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
If You Knew Susie
Let There Be Love
Papa Loves Mambo
Red Sails in the Sunset
Royal Garden Blues
Second Hand Rose
Side by Side
Solitude
South of the Border
Yes We Have No Bananas

Country Songs

Born a Woman
Come Back When You Grow Up
Cry
Have You Ever Been Lonely
Ring of Fire
Sea of Heartbreak
The Last Round-Up
The Prisoner’s Song
Wolverton Mountain

Film Scores

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Guns of Navarone
Lawrence of Arabia
Man From Laramie
Picnic
Scrooge
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Misfits
The Wedding Banquet
Walk On The Wild Side

Broadway Scores

Color Purple
Jekyll and Hyde (Opening again on Broadway on April 19th, 2013)
Victor Victoria

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Says the President of Shapiro Bernstein, Michael Brettler, “We must be doing something right to be in business for 100 years in New York City. In a world of conglomerates, our long term survival as an independent company has been based on the ability to make quick, savvy decisions over many decades. Through four generations, we’ve always been able to adapt to new innovations and challenges, and have strived to maintain very close relationships with our clients and songwriters.”

Incorporated in 1913 (but with roots dating back to the 1890’s), the company began publishing out of offices on Manhattan’s West 28th Street, better known as Tin Pan Alley, in the age of ragtime and vaudeville. The founding partners, Louis Bernstein and Maurice Shapiro, teamed up with composer, Harry Von Tilzer, fresh on the heels of his first hit song, “My Old New Hampshire Home.”

In the years that followed, the company went through many changes and partners before Louis Bernstein, Maurice’s brother-in-law, took over the business after his untimely death in 1911. The name was restored to Shapiro Bernstein & Co., Inc. and that year the company had its first major hit with “Trail of the Lonesome Pine.”

Louis Bernstein went on to become a founding member of ASCAP and serve as its Vice-President for 26 years. During the formative years of the modern music industry, Shapiro Bernstein was a consistently outspoken advocate for the rights of the creative community, engaging as a plaintiff in several landmark cases still cited by specialists in copyright law.

The company was able to adapt to the changing industry of the 1930’s, utilizing favorite bands of the Swing Era, emerging jazz stars, and Hollywood movie musicals to popularize songs that are now considered American classics. Benny Goodman launched “The Glory of Love”; Gene Autry performed “You’re The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)” in three of his films; and Tommy Dorsey launched “In the Blue of the Evening,” sung by a young man named Frank Sinatra. In 1940, Glenn Miller debuted “In the Mood” – which spent 12 weeks at #1 and became perhaps the best-known dance song in American history.

At the close of the 1940’s, Shapiro Bernstein ushered in the era of rock ‘n’ roll with the ground-breaking “Guitar Boogie” by Arthur Smith, and followed it with Fifties and Sixties pop standards like “Cry,” “Papa Loves Mambo,” and “Harlem Nocturne.” When Louis’ son-in-law Dick Voltter took the reins of the company in 1962, he continued to expand the diversity of their catalog, securing rights to and eventually purchasing the Columbia Pictures catalog acquiring score classics like The Guns of Navarone, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia.

Seeing an opportunity in the emerging country music market, the grandson-in-law of Louis Bernstein, Leon Brettler, formed Painted Desert Music and opened a Nashville office in the early 1960’s. It was a move that paid off quickly and continues to pay, yielding hits like “Wolverton Mountain” and the Johnny Cash all-time country classic, “Ring of Fire,” penned by his wife-to-be, June Carter and his best friend, Merle Kilgore.

Today Shapiro Bernstein remains a current leader in the world of independent music publishing and continues to publish songs that top the charts. They actively court new writers and expose their current hit makers to the public and the industry.

Under the leadership of Michael Brettler, who became president in 2000, Shapiro Bernstein is committed to continuing in its long tradition: “I am proud to be at the helm of such an iconic music company which has maintained its role in developing and championing music writers for 100 years. Our songs today are just as much in demand as they ever were, and we represent and publish some of today’s hottest writers and most exciting songs.”

Selection of Shapiro Bernstein Songs

Popular Songs:

Crush
Glory of Love
Harlem Nocturne
I Gotta Feeling
In The Mood
On The Sunny Side of the Street
Put Your Records On
Ring of Fire
Way You Look Tonight
White Cliffs of Dover
Without You
Woo-Hoo
You’re Nobody Til Somebody Loves You

Classic Songs

Alabamy Bound
Beer Barrel Polka
Cherokee
Harlem Nocturne
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
If You Knew Susie
Let There Be Love
Papa Loves Mambo
Red Sails in the Sunset
Royal Garden Blues
Second Hand Rose
Side by Side
Solitude
South of the Border
Yes We Have No Bananas

Country Songs

Born a Woman
Come Back When You Grow Up
Cry
Have You Ever Been Lonely
Ring of Fire
Sea of Heartbreak
The Last Round-Up
The Prisoner’s Song
Wolverton Mountain

Film Scores

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Guns of Navarone
Lawrence of Arabia
Man From Laramie
Picnic
Scrooge
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Misfits
The Wedding Banquet
Walk On The Wild Side

Broadway Scores

Color Purple
Jekyll and Hyde (Opening again on Broadway on April 19th, 2013)
Victor Victoria

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