The fifth episode of Season 4 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Árni Heimir Ingólfsson. We explore the unexpected start of his book Music at World's End, which focuses on the lives and careers of three exiled musicians who made their way from Nazi Germany and Austria to Iceland, and revitalized Iceland's classical music scene in the process.

Árni Heimir Ingólfsson is an Icelandic musicologist and holds a PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University. His primary area of interest is the history of Icelandic music from the Middle Ages to the present. He is the author of several books, including Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (2019), which was listed as one of that year's best books on music by Alex Ross of The New Yorker. His most recent book, Music at World’s End, is a stud ...