Heiner Muller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee - Prof Philip V. (University of Chicago Bohlman - Bog

By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, the East German playwright, Heiner Müller, and the West German composer, Heiner Goebbels, created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the "crisis of Europe? today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified?