Time's Echo

Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo is a powerful meditation on music, memory, and the Holocaust. Eichler traces how composers like Strauss, Schoenberg, and Britten grappled with the legacy of atrocity in their work. His prose is lyrical and deeply informed, blending music criticism, history, and cultural reflection. The book asks how art can bear witness to collective trauma and preserve memory across generations. Eichler shows how music becomes both a refuge and a medium of remembrance. It is an elegiac, profound work that speaks to the enduring resonance of art in the face of unspeakable loss.