Josh Aronson and Jonathan Rose
Orchestra of Exiles
Summary
An appreciation of the 2012 documentary Orchestra of Exiles, which chronicles the astonishing and inspiring life of Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman (1882–1947) and his efforts to save Jewish families from the Holocaust and create a unique orchestra.
Josh Aronson
Josh Aronson is a producer, director, and writer who began his career as a still photographer for Time Life before making films. He directed hundreds of commercials, music videos, and television pilots and, for the past 20 years, he has specialized in documentaries, including the Oscar-nominated Sound and Fury (2000), Orchestra of Exiles (2012), and To Be of Service (2019), among others. Josh is the founder of Harmony Project Hudson, an after-school music education program in Hudson, NY. With his wife, violinist Maria Bachmann, he founded Telluride Musicfest in 2002, a chamber music festival in Colorado.
Jonathan Rose
Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy, teaching, writing, and nonprofit work focuses on creating more environmentally, socially, and economically just and resilient cities. In 1989 he founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, project management, and investment firm, to address the challenges of the 21st century. He frequently lectures at graduate schools on business, architecture on affordable housing, community development, smart growth, and the environment. Jonathan’s book on how to create resilient cities, The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, was published by in 2016. He has testified before US Senate and House Committees on housing, infrastructure, and environmental issues, and served as an advisor to the White House Office of Urban Affairs.
They couldn’t take celebrities easily and do with them as they would. So he had freedom. He could have gone anywhere and he could have performed in Germany, which is where most of his income came, but he didn’t.
They divorced, and that was the time when he was very self-absorbed. He was not a father. He was on the road all the time. He was at the time, one of the highest paid, most in demand musicians in the world. So he had a little boy, and his wife went off and married someone else. She actually married Dohnányi, the conductor. And Dohnányi adopted the little boy, which says a lot that a living father would allow his son to be adopted by someone else.
As far as I know, the orchestra was 99% Jewish, but they were all Palestinians since the lived in Palestine.