 In 1925 Schoenberg was selected to lead a masterclass on composition at the Prussian Academy of the Arts by the Minister of Culture Carl Heinrich Becker.After his post was revoked on racist grounds in Sept. 1933, he returned to the Jewish faith he had abandoned in his youth and emigrated to the United States, where he became a professor of composition and, in 1941, an American citizen.The proposal for "A Survivor from Warsaw" came from the Russian choreographer Corinne Chochem.