OBERLIN, OHIO--The music of Alban Berg, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill will be among the works featured in a program highlighting early twentieth-century Austrian and German music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The chamber concert, which is free and open to the public, showcases Oberlin Conservatory faculty, students and an alumna. It will be held Friday, November 3, at 8:30 p.m. in Kulas Recital Hall, located at 77 W. College Street, Oberlin.

The concert is presented in conjunction with Oberlin College’s ninth annual Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture. Marc A. Weiner, professor of Germanic Studies at Indiana University, will deliver a free public address titled "Why Does Hollywood Like Opera? German Cultural History and Modern American Practice." The lecture takes place prior to the concert, at 4 p.m., in Room 106 of the College’s King Building, located at the corner of N. Professor and W. College Streets.

The Jantz endowed lectureship, established in 1988, honors Harold Jantz ’29 and supports lectures and symposia in the fields of German literature, German and American literary relations, art and art history.