Originals: Eric Banks on Hanns Eisler
Portrait of Eisler above courtesy of the International Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft.
Eric Banks is a writer based in New York. While at Columbia in the late 1980s, he had a radio show on WKCR. He has since written for The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Chronicle of Higher Education and is a contributing editor of Men’s Vogue among other publications. He is also the former editor in chief of Bookforum and senior editor of Artforum. He is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle in New York.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I did a quick search on YouTube and found some great pieces by Eisler. Amazing to think how difficult it used to be to track down music from another country. I love how this piece reminds us of another era…and yet it was so recently.
December 31st, 2011 at 2:00 pm
[...] commemoration of the composer’s death in 1950. Then we considered how Oscar-nominee Hanns Eisler had been scrutinized two years earlier by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, [...]