Elysium Between Two Continents will present a preview concert on Nov. 3 entitled “Exile: Celebrating 100 Years of the International Society for New Music.”

The concert will take place at Austrian Cultural Forum NYC and aims to prepare audiences for the upcoming festival set to take place in April in collaboration with The Leo Baeck Institute New York, the American Society for Jewish Music, the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, and the Exilearte Center for Banned Music. American baritone Thomas Hampson will also be a major player in the festival’s launch.

The concert will feature music by such composers as Rudolf Reti, Paul Pisk, Karl Weigl, Hugo Kauder, Wilhelm Grosz, Egon Lustgarten, Paul Hindemith, and Egon Wellesz, all exiles to the U.S. after the rise of Nazism; more specifically, audiences will hear music composed after emigration.

Performers including soprano Alexis Rodda, soprano Jeannie Im, and baritone Bryan Murray. Dan Franklin Smith will be at the piano.

“The hundredth anniversary of the International Society for Contemporary Music reminds us that many of the composers that were celebrated there are completely forgotten to history through no fault of their own,” said Michael Lahr, Program Director of Elysium, in an official press statement. “This festival, and indeed this concert, will give modern audiences the opportunity to hear the music these composers created while they were grappling with the unimaginable difficulties of being refugees in a strange new land.”