Shanghai Sonatas
In the late 1930s, over 23,000 German and Austrian Jews fled from the Nazi regime to the only city in the world that didnt require a visa Shanghai, China. Among these largely middle and upper-class refugees were about 450 professional musicians, who utilized their art to give voice to the fears, anxieties, struggles and hopes borne of their experience as guests in a completely foreign culture.Nearly eighty years later, the world-renowned musician and UD Trustees Distinguished Professor of Music, Xiang Gao, is creating with his team of world-class artists The Shanghai Sonatas, a new musical based on the memoirs of the Jewish refugees who lived through this unique historical reality.