Audio recording of a lecture given by David Miller on October 24, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In the summer of 1965, Austrian-American composer Ernst Krenek returned to his native country to deliver and address at the unveiling of a memorial plaque in honor of Anton Webern in Mittersill, the village in the Austrian Alps where Webern had been shot and killed by an American soldier twenty years earlier. In the summer of 1968, Krenek’s Instant Remembered for soprano, narrator, orchestra, and tape, a work inspired by his time in Mittersill three years earlier, was premiered at the Fourth International Webern Festival in Hanover, New Hampshire. This talk considers Krenek’s two elegies for Webern as a means of exploring his experiences as an émigré composer, the evolving relationship between Austrian music culture and musical modernism pre- and post-World War II, and the interplay between artistic expression and polemics. A broader theme connecting all of these topics is music’s power to reshape time and memory, reordering the past in order to imagine different futures, as well as the limits of that power.”