WORLD OF JEWISH MUSIC 9th London International Jewish Music Festival
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WORLD OF JEWISH MUSIC 9th London International Jewish Music Festival
1-29 November 1998
Over 50 events including opera, concerts,
recitals, dance, film, theatre, exhibitions,
workshops and discussions
Presented by Jewish Music Heritage Trust
Sponsored by Jewish Chronicle
Associated with Bnai Brith
Part of Jewish Music Festivals of Europe
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H NORARY PRE IDENT Lord Menuhin M KBE
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H N RARY VI E PRE IDENT Bertie and ori Black
avid and Tanya Jo efowitz Lady Lipworth Jonathon . Lyon Executive
DIRE T R eraldin Au rbach
PATRON Larry dler Ronald Auerbach Erne t and Valerie Bello
ranley Black OBE The Barone Brig rock Alan ohen JP
ouncill r Roberc av! Hi Honour I rael Fine tein Q
Bernard and Vera arbacz E. Michael Rabbi oldberg Li nel ordon 'hairman, The Jewish 'hronicle Jacqueline ryn Lilian Hochhau er PR M Vicror Hochhau er BE
manuel Hurwirz BE The Lady Jakobovit
ir tanley and Lady Kalm 11 e and Michael Karz
r Ralph Kohn r Herbert Kretzmer
Rabbi r Abraham Levy ir ydney Lipworch Q
ir Jack and Lady Lyon live M. Mark pike Milligan BE
lau Moser K B BE Zara Nel ova New York Ahuva ren Cultural Attache, Israeli Embassy Ruth Ro en Leopold de R th child BE
hief Rabbi Profe or Jonathan ack eymour aide man National President, Bna; Brith ir igmund ternberg tJ K Idred abachnik Q President,
Board of Deputies of British Jews Michael Til on Thoma
Frankie Vaughan BE DL Mal olm William on BE A Master of the Queen's Music
ADVI RY BARD Yvonne Behar Vivienne Bello Prof avid Bloch Tel Aviv ydney ixman
Rev im n Has John . ill
r Tzipora H. Joch berger Jerusalem Ale.xander Knapp
regorij von Leiti Munich r Neil W evin New York
Male lm inger avid mn
Vi tor Tunkel R v Reuben Turner
TRU TEE ylvia Lewin 'hairman
Judy brart ecretary Judith Unikower Treasurer Andrew oleman P A PR A Prof Ludwik Finkel tein BE PEng Jennifer Jankel Prof Maleolm Troup Rev Makolm W, i man B Beryl and Heini Wohl
JEWI H MU I HERlTA E ENTRE PR JE T T AM eraldine Auerbach Director JMHT
Alan h n JP Property Andrew leman PR A Finance
avi FR A 'hairman Jeffrey lreen Legal Adviser Noa Lachman ljJecial Projects ylvia Lewin 'hairman JMHT
Michael Polkingh rne Technical Adviser avid t ne PR A Project o-ordinator
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Table of Contents
The Rt Hon Chris Smith MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. ................................ 3 His Excellency Dror Zeigerman, Ambassador of Israel to the Court of St James's .............................. 3 Professor Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the Commonwealth ..... . ............ 3 Sylvia Lewin, Chairman, Jewish Music Heritage Trust . ................................................ 3 Eldred Tabachnik QC, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews ................................... 3 Lionel Gordon, Chairman, Jewish Chronicle . ....................................................... 3 Hilde Jansen, Press and Cultural Counsellor, Royal Netherlands Embassy . .................................. 4 Introduction by Geraldine Auerbach, Festival Director and Director of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust ........... . .... 4 Thanks . ......................................... .. ..................................... 5 Participating Organisations ................. . ................................................ 6 Donors to the Jewish Music Heritage Trust, the Festival and the Festival programme ........................... 6 Sponsors of the World of Jewish Music .......................................................... 7 A Centre for Jewish Music and Arts in London ..................................................... 7 Shofar Workshop, World Record Attempt, Sunday 1 November, 2.00pm .................................... 9 Across the Bridge, Sunday 1 November, 7 ·30pm .................................................... 9 Nineteenth Century Romantics, Ignaz Moscheles and his Influence, Sunday 1 November, 7.30pm ................... 10 Israel: The Musical Melting Pot, Lucie Skeaping and the Burning Bush, Monday 2 November, 7.30pm ............... 12 Psalm Settings in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, A Talk by Professor Uri Sharvit, Tuesday 3 November, 8.30pm ..... 16 The Musical Tradition of the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin, Wednesday 4 November, 7.30pm ............... 16 Cantorial Masterclass, Cantor Benzion Miller, Thursday 5 November, 7.30pm ................................ 16 Russian and Polish Romantics, Evgeny Soifertis, piano, Thursday 5 November, 7.30pm ......................... 17 Saving Charlotte by Judi Herman, a play with music, Saturday 7 November, 7.30pm ........................... 19 The World of Jewish Music, Talk by Alexander Knapp, Sunday 8 November, 11.00am ........................... 19 Broadway to Hollywood, The Oxford Philomusica, Sunday 8 November, 3.30pm .............................. 20 Jewish Life and Folk Song in Slovakia, Sunday 8 November, 7.30pm ..................................... 24 Tribute Concert for Charlotte Salomon, 'Kristallnacht' commemoration, Monday 9 November, 7.30pm ............... 24 With Heart and Soul, Cantor Benzion Miller, Tuesday 10 November, 7.30pm ................................ 25 Dutch Composers Banned by the Nazis, Wednesday 11 November, 7.30pm ........................... ' ...... 26 Pop-Goes-the Klezmer (1), Alexandra Valavelsky and The Bashava Band, Thursday 12 November, 7.30pm ............ 29 Pop-Goes-the-Klezmer (2), Eve's Women, Saturday 14 November, 7.30pm and Sunday 15 November,7.30pm ........... 32 Pop-Goes-the-Klezmer (3), Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band, Sunday 15 November, 7·30pm ............... 33 A People and its Music, lunchtime video presentations, Monday 16- Friday 20 November, 1.0Q-2.00pm .............. 34 Documentary Film: Paula Paulinka, Monday 16 November, 7.30pm ................... . ................... 35 Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, Tuesday 17 November, 7.30pm .......................................... 36 Dreyfus: Prisoner of Devll's Island, new music-theatre piece in concert, Wednesday 18 November, 7.30pm ............ 40 Salamone Rossi: The Jewish Musician of Mantua, Thursday 19 November, 7.30pm ............................ 42 Saleem Abboud, piano and chamber recital, Saturday 21 November,7.30pm ................................ 42 Tree of Life, Jewish Vocal and Choral Music, Sunday 22 November, 7.30pm ........................ . ........ 42 The joy and the Hope, dance programme about the Land of Israel, Monday 23 November, 7.30pm ................. 46 Classical Music in Modern Israel, talk by Alexander Knapp, Tuesday 24 November, 1.00pm ...................... 47 Sparks and Bells: New and Established Works for Israel, Tuesday 24 November, 7·30pm .................. . .... 47 The Moving Voice, Contemporary Dance and Sephardi Song, Wednesday 25 November, 7.30pm ................... 51 What is Jewish Music? Can it be defined? discussion, Thursday 26 November, 7·30pm ......................... 53 Ziryab Trio: Oriental Art Music, Saturday 28 November, 7.30pm ......................................... 53 Gardens of Eden: What Price Paradise?, discussion, Sunday 29 November, 11.00am ........................... 54 Vienna Boys Choir: family concert, Sunday 29 November, 2.30pm ....................................... 54 The Garden by Josef Tal, chamber opera, Sunday 29 November, 5.00pm ................................... 54 Bustan Abraham: Music from the Middle East, Sunday 29 November, 8.00pm ............... . ............... 56
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The 9th London International Jewish Music Festival
The Musical life of Terezin, Monday 30 November, 7·30pm ........................................... 57 Exhibitions ............................................................................ 63
Synagogue Services ...................................................................... 63
Guided Walks: organised by the Jewish Museum .................................................. 63
Index of Venues with Addresses ............................................................... 65
Jewish Music Heritage Trust ................................................................. 67
Join the Friends of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust ................................................. 68
Jewish Music Heritage Recordings ............................................................. 69
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VENUE ADDRESSES AND BOX OFFICE NUMBERS
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MUSIC FROM THE FESTIVAL Will be available in the foyer at
many events, or contact Jewish Music Distribution on 01323 832 863 or
write to PO Box 67, Hailsham BN27 4UW.
BOOKING INFORMATION All bookings can be made for all events directly with the venue.
The relevant Box Office telephone numbers are listed with the venue
addresses on page 65.
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The Rt Hon Chris Smith MP Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport The 9th London International Jewi h Music Fe tival thi year will
not nly be an important event for the Jewish communi ty, but also
one that will show the div r icy and excellence of the mu ical and
arti tic tandard and intere t of J wi h culture.
T he Jewi h mmunicy ha made an enormous contribution to
the devel pment of a multi-cultural Briti h ci ty' from both a tra
ditional and moderni t per pective. Jewi h arti ts and mu ician have
played a very important role in the development of art during thi
century, fr m their ba e fa rich and deep faith and on a wider ani -
tic plane, and thi year' fe tival pr vid an pp rtunity to reH ct n
the ea hievement and to experience ontemporacy interest.
His Excellency Dror Zeigerman Ambassador of Israel to the Court of St James's It i with great plea ure that I welcome ev ryon to the 9th London
International Jewi h M u ic Fe tival, in thi year, I rael' 50th
anniv r ary. With your help we oncinue the tradition of Jewi h
mu i al life ymboli ed by King avid - th (w t inger of! rael' .
The mu i al tradition of the various Jewi h ommunitie
pr vide the rigin and found ation for the continuing development
f Jewi h ulturallife.
le i plea ing t not the ut tanding quali ty and variety of the
produ tion from Britain , I rael and el ewhere, in particular the
I raeli hamber pera agan (The arden) by Jo efTal and I rael
li raz.
I am ure y ur event will be ll cce fu l and wi h the performer
and gue t a m morable tim .
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Professor Jonathan Sacks Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth I take much pleasure in ending best wishes for the succe of the 9th
London International Jewish Music Festival.
Music has been a source of inspiration and comfort to our peo
ple both in wor hip and in time of relaxation. ur peopl have
been in the forefront of ingers, instrumentalists and composers.
he heritage is enormou - the future i no le impre sive. You and
y ur colleague are much to be congratulated on your endeavour.
Sylvia Lewin Chairman, Jewish Music Heritage Trust The J wi h Mu ic Heritage Trust always find reason for celebra
tion. Thi year i the time for marvelling at the miracle which i the
tate of I rael . e pite the untold number of pitfall during the pa t
fifty year, Israel boasts extraordinary achievements in the field of
cience, technology, agriculture, education, and it i the country
with the large t number of mu ician per capita of any in the world!
We are delighted to present Jewish mu ic, new and old, which lives
and thriv in I rael and the Diaspora.
We are proud and flattered that The Rt Hon hri mith is
opening the Festival. n behalf of all the Trustee, our thanks go to
him a well a to our dedicated taff and volunt r, und r the
in piring directorship of eraldine Auerbach.
"' njoy our event and thank you for helping to make the 9th
ondon International Jewi h Music Fe tival a ucces .
Eldred Tabachnik QC President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews It give me the greate t pleasure to send my greeting and good wi h
e to al l involved in the 9th London International Jewi h Mu ic
Fe tival organi ed by the Jewi h Music Heritage Tru t. T hi full and
varied programme repre ents a fe tival of a truly international
nature, reHecting the tremendou diver icy of mu ical and arti tic
heritage that blend together to form Jewi h culture today. As a com
munity we can be ju tifiably proud that th i Fe tival is again being
held in London. T he valuable cu ltural contributions that our com
munity ha made to Briti h ociety a a whole i recognised by the
wide incere t that exi cs in the myriad of event that are being put on
throughout ondon. I wi h all the hofar blower much luck in their
attempt to nter the Guinness Book of Records for me greatest num
ber of hofar played tog mer. Thi i both an original and appro
priate way to mark the jubile of the tate of Israel. T he ucce s of
thi great evenc i down to the hard work of the Jewi h Mu ic
Heritage Tru t and I wi h them continuing ucce in all their work.
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lionel Gordon Chairman, Jewish Chronicle T he Jewish Chronicle i proud to pon or thi year' International
Jewish Mu ic festival, a major event in the cul tural life of the com
muni ty. T he paper ha alway been very aware of the need to up-'
port communi ty ba ed cultural event , and we have been plea ed to
offer our support for Jewish Book Week, T he Jewi h Film Fe tival ,
and the Jewish Mu ic Fe tival .
ince its early planning days in th e 1980's, the Jewi h Mu ic Fe tival
ha urvived many problems, not least the lack of adequate funding.
T h fact that the fe tival ha flourished i , without doubt, due to the
determination and fores ight of it Director, eraldine Auerbach.
Today the festival is widely recognised as being the mo t important
cultural event in the Anglo-Jewi h calendar. It ha influ need the
study and performance of J wi h music in many part of the world,
and there can be no better recognition than the fact that the fe tival
has been emulated in various countrie . The study of Jewi h mu ic
has also become an academic discipline and this would not have
happened had the Jewish Music H eritage Tru t not exi ted .
T hi year's programme is one of the mo t comprehen ive and
ambitiou to date, and it heer breadth will delight and entich
music-lovers everywher .
Hilde Jansen Press and Cultural Counsellor, Royal Netherlands Embassy The 9th London International Jewi h Mu ic Fe tival will again
undoubtedly be a fea t of mu ic, dance, theatre and film. I am proud
to announce the utch participation in the tival. n Wedne day
11 November, 7.30 pm, t. John', mith quare, the Leo mit
n emble of Am terdam will perform works by Jewi h compo er
who were victim , both personal ly and arti tically, of the econd
World War. T he programme utch ompo er banned by th
N azis will offer the opportunity of experiencing mu ic that ha been
left untouched for many year and hearing poem nd letter of the
period read by Dutch actor, L x van e1den.
Spike Milligan CBE Patron of Jewish Music Heritage Trust To the World of Jewi h Mu ic I ay ( halo m'
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Introduction by Geraldine Auerbach Festival Director and Director of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust
, ince Biblical times, musical expression has been at the heart of Jewish devotion and communal life. .. . Throughout the long history of the Jewish people music has been a fertile medium of cultural exchange- a multifaceted dialogue with many nations. ' Yehudi Menuhin
I have much plea ure in introducing thi year' programme in which
we hare the J wi h mu ical experience of many centurie of travel
and ojourn around the world with all mu ic-Iover . T he Fe tival, a
before, i warmly a ociated with Bnai Brith, the Jewi h ervice
organi ation and we are proud that the Jewi h hr nicl , on of the
mo t rever d Jewi h n w paper world-wide i the e tival pon or.
T hi y ar ~ r the first time w are co-operating with Jewi h music
fe tival in Amsterdam and Munich under the banner Jewi h Mu ic
Festival of urope.
Overview of the Festival T hi year' fe tival of Jewi h mu ic and art bring arti ts from the
UK, I rael, America and Europe ro London. In th year f her
Jubi lee, w celebrate I rael , the mu ical melting pot, wh r ancient
and modern tradition mix wi th Ea tern and We tern tyle, creating
new and exciting ynthe e . As in previou y ar , the Fe tivalla t a
whole month with over fifty vent , both light-h art d and more
eriou , at the Barbican, the uth ank entre, t J hn', mith
quare and other venue. It include pera, concert, recital , work
hop , ma tercla e, lecture and ympo ia; piu literary event , fi lm
and theatre production , vid 0 pr ntation , exhibiti n , ynagogue
ervice and walks ar und Jewi h ondon.
(hris Smith MP to open the Festival We are delighted that T h Rt Hon hri mith MP, ecretary f
tate for ulture, M edia and port, wi ll ffi cial ly pen the Fe tival.
He wi ll be welcomed at a reception in the pre ence of the
Amba ador of I rael and will peak before the concert begin n 2
N vember. he oncert by Lucie k aping a cl The Burning Bu h
wi ll be h raid d by a rand hofa r anfar for I rael 's Jubilee.
Opera Premiere: The Garden on the South Bank ne f th mo t ignificant event i the UK and ngli h language
premi re f the chamber pera The arden by I rael ' eni r om
po er Jo eph Tal on 29 N vember. T he work, in whi h Adam, v
and the rpent return ro den t p nder their choice, will be in
the pre ence f the omp er J efTal and libretti t, I ra I liraz and
per~ rmed by ha me ide pera. T hi wh le day f Jewi h ulture
at the outh Bank, whi h i pon or d by I AI I rael Airline and
the mba y f I rael, include a di ell ion n the arden f den
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tory with three literary figure and a Rabbi. In the Royal estival
Hall the Vienna Boy hoir pert; rm th Terezin children' op ra
Brundibar. The Fe tival clo e with the innovative Arab and Jewi h
I raeli folk en emble Bu tan Abraham in concert.
Barbican Concerts There are tw pecial concert at the Barbican forming part of their
'Inventing America' erie: Maxwell treet Klezmer Band from
hi ag (l7th) and 'Broadway to Hollywood' (8th) in which
regori ch cht r' Klezmer Rhapsody for larinet and orche tra will
be premi red. antor Benzion Miller from Br klyn, who will ing
cantorial etting t; r orche tra, i one of the twO outstanding cantors
from America who will pert; rm in the e tival.
Choral and liturgical Music, Dance and Jazzy Pop ond n' premi r J wish choir , The Zemel h ir and Alyth horal
ci ty c mbine again to perform a J wi h acred ervice, thi time
by the American Jewi h compo er, a telnuovo-Tede co, at t
John's, mith quare (22nd) with the New Jer ey cantor, Raphael
Frieder as the soloi t. antor B nzion Miller fr m Brooklyn treats
u t antorial and Yiddi h la ics at th Western Marble Arch
ynagogue (lOth). He will al 0 conduct a ma t rcla for a piring
cantor (5th). New venture thi year include evening of I raeli
dance and f ontemp rary dance at The Place and three 'P p-
oe -th -Klezmer' c ncercs at the atmo pheric Union hapel in
I lington. The ver-popular bands Alexandra Valavelsky' Ba hava
Band (l2th) and regori chechter' Klezmer Fe tival Band, (15th)
will be joined by ve' Women (14th)- four y ung mu ician from
I rael, making their fir t UK appearan e, who take traditional
melodie and bring them up t date.
Royal Academy of Arts ome event will r late to the exhib ition at the Royal Academy f
the p ignant painting of the Berlin-born arti t harlotte alomon
wh died in Au chwitz at the age of twenty-six. T he are part of her
painted autobiography Life? or Theatre?whi h re ide in the Jewi h
Hi torical Mu eum f Am terdam. The harl tt al mon ribute
oncert n 9 November, the sixtieth anniver ary of 'Kri tallnacht',
i being prom ted jointly with the Royal Academy, and include a
private view of the xhibition. Judi Herman' new play with music,
aving Charlotte (7th) at the Bridewell heatre, explore the drama
of her hort life. The Leo mit n embl from Am terdam will give
a performance f mu ic by ut h om po er , banned (or killed) by
the Nazi (l1 th). A film about harlotte' tepmother, th famou
mezzo- oprano Paula Lindberg, will be hown at the chool of
riental and Afri an tudie (16th). Paula indberg (wh i till
alive and living in Am t rdam) al 0 feature, al ng with Jo eph
chmidt, in the event devoted t the remarkable recording of the
mplete liturgical repertoire f the Berlin Reform ongregation
made in the 1920' (4th).
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Recitals at St GUes, Sternberg Centre, Jewish Museum tiles, rippl gate near the Barbican will be the venue for four
events. Ru ian pianist vgeny oiferti plays the sonata by Poli h
Jewi h composer Moishe Vaynberg (5th). Henry Roche, piani t, a
de cendant f the piani t composer and teacher Ignaz Moschele
will give a chamber recital, with flute and cello featuring his works
(l t), and Michelene Wandor and friend pre ent the mu ic of sev
enteenthcenturyItalianJewihcompo r, alamoneRo i(19th). t
il i al 0 the venue for a concert version of a new music th atre
piece DreyJus, Prisoner of Devils Island, with word and music by
Bryan Ke elman (18th). The ternberg entre for Judai m present
Mu ic from Terezin by th Andrusier n emble (30th) and from
lovakia (8th), and the Jewi h Mu eum will organise several events
including walks in the a t and We t nd of London.
SOAS and City University here are lecture and video presentation introduced at the chool
of riental and African tudies by Alexander Knapp, the Joe 10 s
Lecturer in Jewi h Music. At ity Univer ity, the newly founded
British ociety for Practitioners of Jewish Music will be conducting
a urvey of critical opinion on the que tion 'What is Jewi h
Mu ic?- an it be defined?' with a di tingui hed panel of speakers,
under the chairmanship f lenda Abram on of the xford entre
for Jewi h-Hebrew tudie.
Thanks My admiration and thanks go to ylvia Lewin, hairman, and to
the Tru te of Jewish Music Heritage Tru t, who have helped u to
grow, from the fir t Fe tival in 1984, to where we are today. It wa
ylvia who, a Pre ident of Bnai Brith, fir t had the idea for the
Jewi h Mu ic Fe tival and he ha been a constant ource of ncour
agement and go d advice. Judy brart, ecretary, and Judith
Unikower, treasurer, are founder Tru tees and have een u through
thick and thin with tremendous commitment. ur newer trustees
have added lu tre and experti e and I am grateful to them all ( ee
page 67).
This Fe tival would not have taken hape without the energy of
Noa Lachman, who ha worked tirele ly and ingle-mindedly on
application for funding and the difficult task of getting ponsorship
for our event and projectS, and on stage management of event .
We are extremely fortunate to have ue Levy a both our
Marketing and Pre Manager. Not only i her heart in promoting
the be t in Jewi h culture, but she i out tanding in strategy and per
severance in en uring the maximum publicity about the Festival and
the work of the Trust.
The Fe tival office is kept ane by the calm and cheerful patience
of hristine Kryst who keep the mountains of paper and informa
tion in order, whil t reas uring people on four phone , two faxes,
and e-mail.
We are al 0 v ry grateful to Anthony Auerbach for hi d ign
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strategie and his care and efficiency in producing printed material
and the estival web ite.
John Hill, who ha become our lighting and technical advi or, i
now an invaluable member of the Fe tival team. He has given so
much of his time and energy to organising technical lighting plan ·
for many of the e event. I am truly grateful for hi contribution. I
am also very grateful to Adam La man who ha helped to cype and
edit thi programme. To all the volunteer who helped tuffing
envelopes, doing re earch, make phone call and di tributing leaflets
and po ters our grateful thank .
I couldn't do the work I do for Jewish Mu ic, without the h Ip
fulness and genero icy of my children and my hu band Ronnie. H
is a patient, tolerant guide, and provider of pace, equipment and
moral support. I give my love and thanks to him above all.
The Festival rganiser would like to thank all the helpers and
spon or , and the participating organi ation that have contributed
to chi Fe rival.
Participating Organisations and Venues Anglo-Austrian Music ociecy
Barbican Centre
Belsize quare ynagogue
Bnai Brith UK Lodges
Board of Deputie of Briti h Jew
British ociecy for Practitioner of Jewi h Mu ic
Camden Arts and Tourism
armel Arts
entre for Dutch and Flemi h ulture, Universicy ollege,
London
icy Universicy, London, Mu ic epartment
Hendon ynagogue Heritage entre
Israel Folk ance Institute
Israeli Ministry of ducation, Culture and port
Jewish Museum, Camden
Jewish Museum, Finchley
Jewi h Quarterly
Liberal Jewish ynagogue, t John' Wood
Manor House ociecy
Milken Family Foundation, Archive of American Jewi h Mu ic
New West End ynagogue
North Western Reform ynagogue
The Place Theatre
Royal Academy of Art
t John' Wood United ynagogue
chool of riental and African tudie, Univer icy of London
outh Bank Centre
Union hapel, I lingcon
Western Marble Arch ynagogue
Yakar tudy entre
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Donors to the Jewish Music Heritage Trust, the Festival and the Festival programme Lord A hdown haritable ettlement
Mr and Mr Bernard A her
Jarvi A taire
eorge Benjamin
rne t and Valerie B 110 Bertie and ori Black
Bna1 Brith dgware Women Lodge
Bna! Brith Fir t Lodge of England
Bnai Brith eo Baeck Men ' Lodge
Bnai Brith L 0 Baeck Women' Lodge
Bnai Brith Pa t Pr ident' ciati n
Mr P. Brett
u an and John Burn
Raymond and Pam Burton
Harold antor
Alan and wen ohen
er hon and Muriel ohen
Ronald and haron ohen
tanley and Joy ohen
tewart and Pearl ohen
Jonathan uby
mee Fairbairn haritabl Tru t
Ronni and Fiona Fattal
dwin and Jo celyn Fox
Michael and Marcia reen
u an and Jeffrey reen
The reen Foundation
ue Hamm rson
Maurice Hatter Foundation
Pet r Held
Tony Hitman
Ian Karten haritable Tru t
David and Tanya Jo efowitz
he tanl y Kalm Foundation
Il and Michael Kacz
Ralph and Zahava Kohn
H rbere Kretzmar
Jack La
Renee Lauffer
Lord Levene
ylvia and avid ewin
ir ydney and Lady Lipworth
ir Jack yon haritable ru t
ee Law on
Lord and Lady Marks 'Markson' Piano'
Victor Mi hcon
uy and Marion Naggar
Judy brart and friend
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Felix Posen
he Rayne Foundation
erald and ail Ronson
Jackie Rosenfeld
Jim and Patricia Rothman
Leopold de Rothschild
ir idney and Lady amuel on
Brian and Ruth andleson
. ilverman & on (Importers) Ltd
Mrs R. opher
p ar haritable rust
Nicholas and Ro alyn pringer
ir igmund ternberg
Peter and ue trau
Hazel We tbury
ity of Westminster
Lord and Lady Young
Grants for World of Jewish Music mbas y ofIsrael
Emba y of the Federal Republic of ermany
London Arts Board
ond n Borough of amd n
R yal Neth rland mbas y
Visiting Art
ity of We tmin ter
Sponsors of World of Jewish Music Agrexco Agricu ltural
BMI lementine hurchill H pital, Harrow
roft ourt Hotel
I AI I rael Airline
Jewi h hronicl
Keter UK Ltd
Lero Propertie
The Royal arden
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A Centre for Jewish Music and Arts for London The Jewish Music Heritage Trust ha set up a team to develop a
entre for Jewish Music and Art for London. Under the guidance
of David tone FRSA, who has experience as advisor to the
Government of Hong Kong on arts policy both for buildings and
programme , the team has set out parameters, established manage
ment tructures and formulated processes. The team ha initiated
discu ion with policy maker, Jewish arrs providers, funding bod
ie and individual donor. The Arts Council of England, the Board
of eputies of British Jews, the Chief Rabbi and other leaders of
religiou communities and secular institutions have expre sed sup
POrt and encouragement for the project. A site has already been
identified in the West End of London. The Trust is grateful to the
upporter of this project, particularly Jonathon Lyons, who as
Honorary xecutive Vice President, is spearheading the fund raising
campaign for the Centre and Vice Pre idents Bertie and oris Black,
who have provided essential seed money.
The entre will be a place for education, for creativity, for cul
tural exchange and for the practice of Jewish mu ic and arrs. It will
be a place where Jews can express their identity through the whole
spectrum of cultural activities: visual arts, literature, film, th atre
and dance as well as mu ic. It will share with non Jews a treasury of
inspiration that contribured to the survival of the Jewi h people and
ha infu ed the cultures of all those nations through which the
Jewi h iaspora ha spread. Thi entre or Jewish art will be a fit
ting tribute to British society that has encouraged cultural diversity
to fl uri h, and a concrete symbol of the place of Jewish mu ic and
arts in Briti h and European culture.
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Sunday 1 November, 2.oopm Western Marble Arch Synagogue
Shofar Workshop World Record Attem pt Devised by Or Malcolm Miller and the Jewish Music Heritage Trust Programme co-ord inated by Henny Levin with support from the British Society for Practitioners of Jewish Music and Western Marble Arch Synagogue Proceeds to JMHT educational projects
Tt day' programme wi ll include the rehear al f the Israel Jubilee hofor Fanfare, ompo ed e pecially for the tival by Malcolm
Miller, which wi ll be perfi rmed on 2 November at t John' , mith
quare, and the w rid record attempt with (we hope) the largest
number of hofar bl wer v r a embled together.
The Shofar he hofar i one f the earlie t mu ical instrum nt known to man.
Fa hi ned from the horn f an animal it wa a y t make and was
extensively u ed in ancient times. here are frequ nt reference to
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the use of the shofar in the Bible, particularly in the story of the
priests marching round Jericho.
The essential ritual on Ro h Hashanah is the sounding of the
hofar. According to the Rabbis, the horn of any kosher animal,
heep, goat or antelope (but not the cow), is fit to be u ed as a ho
far on Rosh Hashanah. The ram's horn wa pr ferred, probably to
recall the Binding ofIsaac, for whom a ram was substituted. ne of
the reasons why the horn of a cow is not used is it a ociation with
disloyalty to od in the story of the olden Calf. It is considered
meritoriou to u e a curved hofar, symbolic of man bowing in ub
mi ion to od' wi ll.
The cripture are silent as to why the horn i blown at New
Year, which has left room for a wide variety of interpretations among
later teachers e.g., (1) Trumpets are sounded at a coronation and
od i hailed as king on thi day, (2) The hofar heralds the begin
ning of the penitential season (from Rosh Hashanah to the Day of
Atonement), (3) The Torah was given on inai accompanied by the
blasts of the hofar, (4) The prophet compare their message to the
ound of the hofar, (5) The conquering armie that destroyed the
Temple sounded trumpet blasts.
n Rosh Hashanah, Psalm 47 is recited seven times before the
sounding of the shofar. There are two series of blasts. This first eries
i preceded by two benedictions: 'Blessed art thou Lord our od,
King of the Universe, Who ha anctified us by thy commandments
and ha instrl,lcted u to hear the call of the hofar' and 'Blessed art
thou Lord our od, King of the Universe, who has kept us in life,
and has su tained u , and allowed u to reach thi eason'.
he shofar ounds: there are three calls known a Tekiah, hevarim, and Teruah. Tekiah i an extended long note, Shevarim i
a s rie of three 'groaning' note and Ten~ah is a series of nine very
hort taccato note . It is cu tomary to blow all three call in a par
ticular order.
Tekiah, hevarim, Teruah, Tekiah-three time
Tekiah, hevarim, Teruah, Tekiah-three time
Tekiah, Teruah, Tekiah-three times
he final Tekiah is e pecially long and drawn out and i known as Tekiah Gedolah, the great Tekiah.
Sunday 1 November, 7.30pm Sternberg Centre for Judaism
Across the Bridge Theatrical performance based on the true tory of two women who
were on the ame death march and who met again after fifty-on
year, written by actre Anna ropper and ahlia Fried land.
Followed by discu ion with one of the urvivors.
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Sunday 1 November, 7.30pm
St. GUes, Cripplegate
Nineteenth Century Romantics Ignaz Moscheles and his influence Nicola Woodward, flute
Colin Jackson, cello
Henry Roche, piano
Prelude and Fugue, Book I no.1 ]. S. Bach
Four Preludes from Bach's 48, with cello obligato, opus 137 Ignaz Moscheles
Prelude and Fugue, Book 11 no. 7 ]. S. Bach
Sonate Melancolique, opus 49 Ignaz Moscheles
Hamabdil for cello and piano Granville Bantock
Meditation Hebraique for cello and piano Ernest Bloch
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Interval
Studies, opus 70, nos. 5, 11, 13, 18 Ignaz Moscheles
Studies, opus 10, nos. 1, 5, opus 25, nos. 6, 8 Frederic Chopin
Three studies, opus posthumous Fred.eric Chopin
Four Divertissements, opus 82b for flute and piano Ignaz Moscheles i) Marcia ii) Air de Haydn en Fantaisie iii) Rondino
iv) Air de la .'FamiNe Suisse'de Weigl
Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870)
Ignaz Moscheles was one of the most famous and respected pianist
composers of the first half of the nineteenth century. He was uni
versally admired for the brilliance and expressiveness of his playing
and for his ease and mastery of composition, which, allied to a love
able and generous nature, made him the greatest influence on the
younger generation of Romantic compo er .
Ignaz wa born in Prague on 23 May 1794 to a Jewish family.
After his father's untimely death he ettled in Vienna, where hi
teachers were Nbrechtsberger and alieri, and where hi lifelong
musical hero, Beethoven, lived. He wa eventually commissioned to
arrange Fidelio for piano, and had the joy of coming to know
Beethoven a a kind and generous friend. His Viennese friend hip
with such as Meyerbeer and Hummel were soon enlarged by hi
travels throughout Northern and We tern Europe, and hi relations
with pohr, Weber, Malibran, the Wiecks and other give particular
interest to his autobiographical writing. But the deepest friendship
of his life had its origin in 1824 in Berlin, when he gave the fifteen
year old Mendelssohn six les on ; their lifelong intimacy was severed
by Mendelssohn's early death in 1847.
In 1825 Moscheles was married in Hamburg to a striking and
cultivated Jewi h girl, harlone Emden, more than ten years hi
junior, and the couple settled in London for the next twenty-one
years, where he maintained a dominant position a pianist, compos
er, conductor and teacher. He continued to make concert tours of
Europe, and added chumann, Liszt and Chopin to his circle of
artistic friend .
Toward 1840, he took a deliberate decision to let teaching
become his dominant role, and finally in 1846, he accepted
Mendelssohn' invitation to become ir ctor of Piano at his recent
ly founded Leipzig onservatory. Here, though immensely sad
dened by Mendelssohn' early death barely a year later, he remained
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for the rest of hi life, eeing hi work a a sacred tru t committed to
hi care by hi dead friend. e filled hi diary with acute observa
tion n the late t work by Berlioz, Bruch and Wagner, and on the
progre f uch pupil a rieg and ullivan. After hi death,
harlotte fulfi lled hi wi h by u ing hi diarie to compile hi biog
raphy. he died in 1889. Mo chele ' compo iti n , like tho e of hopin, are predomi
nately fI r pian , th ugh they include eight pian concerto, a ym
ph ny, ome ong and a mall but important body of chamber
mu ic. Both hi 01 and four-hand piano w rk h w a fa cinating
balance f' riou' and' alon' work, with each di playing a con-
tant incl ination to hare it bett r characteri ti with it pp ite
type. Hi tyl i marked by rhythm ic and melodic vivacity and
charm, ometime remini cent f chubert, coupled with a ready
lov f the unexpected, revealing deeper hidden level. Alth ugh
aim t all f hi mu ic ha been out of print throughout thi centu
ry, everal recording and a handful f performan eem to foretell
a revived intere t in thi mo t rewarding and unde ervedly neglect-
d ompo er.
© Henry Roche
J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C, Well-tempered Clavier Book I no. I Hidd n in th prelude' implc broken chord i a true fiv -v iced
movement whi h never leave the h me key, yet conta in all twelve
em it ne through whi h the b ok i to trav I. h fugue ubj Ct, a
ymmetrical ar h, ha 24 'entrie ',perhap a hidden reference to the
24 key f the w rk, to whi h it pr vide a qu iet, au tere and rich
gateway.
Ignaz Moscheles: Four Preludes from Bach's Well-tempered Clavier with added cello obligato, opus 137 In 186 , Mo hele, nearing 70, publi hed ten prelude fr m Bach'
'48' with an added e110 part, iting Mendel ohn and chumann as
m del , and aiming to 'mak the e ma terly w rk more a e ible
t the wide public'. ynami and phra ing ar thorough ly indicat
ed, giving a rare in ight into ninet enth entury ach performan e
tyle, from a man wh had revived the u e f the harp i h rd in hi
n ert in the 18 0' . It i neverthele a t ni hing how ome f the
prelude are tran fI rmed by the ell line int an utterly new und
world. Fr m B k I , the prelude no. 1 in i pre ented n w a a Iyri-
al and dramatic allegro, with a repeat and an added I ing bar. he
beautifu l harp minor pr lude i turned int a haunting duet,
with a highly v ative ix-bar da. The j yful prelud in
be me a fi ligree a ompaniment to the ell ' M ndel hnian
mel dy, with da a well a altered figuration; and the flat pre
lude fr m Bo k n, a harming and gently-A wing gigue-like pi e,
i imilarly li fted b dily and in fu ll A wer into the r manti era.
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J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat, Book 11, nO.7 After the prelude comes a erene fugue in four-part choral euphony.
Ignaz Moscheles: Sonate Melancolique in F sharp minor, opus 49 Although publi hed about 1820, the theme dates back to 1814, the
period of Moschele ' meeting with Beethoven. It i a ingle onata
form movement, Largamente con passione with ection mark d agi
tato. ne hear perhap more of a J wi h colouring than in hi other
work, though with the A major econd ubject come a more peace
ful chubertian ound-world, which later in the recapitulation cau -
e the main theme to be transfigured into major before the gentle
but deeply sombre clo e.
Granville Bantock: Hamabdil for Cello and Piano (1919) An unu ual example of the blending of a melody from th tradi
tional a t European Jewi h liturgical repertoire with the lu h har
mony of ngli h romantici m.
Ernest Bloch: Meditation Hebra'ique for Cello and Piano Born in eneva in 1880, Ernest Bloch wrote veral well-known
works f inten Iy Jewi h character. He pent much f his life in
America, and thi piece i one of everal written during 1923- 24
inAuenced partly by New York' flouri hing ynagogue mu ic ritual
and i dedicated to Pablo a al .
Ignaz Moscheles and Frederic Chopin: Eight Studies Written in 1825-26 and publi hed in 1827, Mo chele ' 24 tudie,
pu 70 had a profound influence on the mu ical world. When he
finally met h pin in 1839, Mo chel wrote that 'he profl e a
gr at attachment fI r my mu ic, and at all ev nt know it perfectly.
He play d me ome of hi tudie and hi late t work, Pr lude '. The
a t ni hing novelty of hopin' ound and modulation that pr vi
ou Iy troubled Mo chele emerged under hopin' softly gliding fin
ger a lucid poetry: 'I now for the fir t time und r tand hi mu ic'.
Mo chele' tudie are e entially clas ical- the particular t chni
cal feature i alway ubjected to dramatically contrasting treatment,
and ften change from right to left hand; wherea hopin' ameo
pr ent an idea with uch overwhelming onviction and implicity
that they need no extraneou elaboration, but grow pontaneou Iy to
their wn catharti climax.
Ignaz Moscheles: opus 70, no. 11 in E flat, Frederic Chopin: opus 10, no. 1 in C Tw very powerful tudi fI r wid hand- xten ion arpeggio , with
pa ing under of the thumb.
Ignaz Moscheles: opus 70, no. 5 in A minor, Frederic Chopin: opus 25, no. 8 in 0 flat
tudie for double ixth in expr ive legato, with incorporated
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Ignaz Moscheles: opus 70, no. 13 in 0, Frederic Chopin: opus 25, no. 6 in G sharp minor Two utterly contrasting pieces for the same technique of double
thirds. Chopin's version, marked sotto voce, is couched in an eerily
rich and dreamy soundworld-technique totally ub ervient to
poetic content.
Ignaz Moscheles: opus 70, no. 18 in F sharp, Frederic Chopin: opus 10, no. 5 in G flat These two 'black key' studies appear to have little in common, but
both revel in their enforced pentatonic simplicity, and also in
dynamic contrasts. Chopin' right hand is a moto perpetuo tour de
force solely on the five black notes.
Frederic Chopin: Three Studies (Nouvelles Etudes), opus posthumous Composed in 1839 for Moschele' and Fetis' 'Methode de
Methodes' (published in 1840), these three tudies are serene and
deceptively simple gems. The first in F minor explores the rhythmic
contrast of three against four; the second in A flat similarly of three
against two, with the right hand weaving a continuou seamles
three part cantabile line. The last, in D flat, has a rich and beautiful
legato melody supported by a continuous staccato line in the inner
fingers of the same hand.
Ignaz Moscheles: Four Divertissements, opus 82b for flute and piano: Marcia, Air de Haydn en Fantaisie, Rondino, Air de la cFamilie Suisse' de Weigl Moscheles wrote two major duo sonatas, as well a everal le er
works, for flute and piano. The e four Divertissements appeared in
1829 and although they clearly echoed the ta te of the time, their
agi le lyricism and the sensitive blending of their melodic line set
them apart from the mas of contemporary 'fa hion ble' mu ic.
The Performers
Nicola Woodward, flute Nicola Woodward tudied flute and piano at the Royal cllege of
Music where she won two prize for 'all-around musician hip' and
the Eve Kisch Flute Prize. he has given two live performance on
C ia sic FM radio, worked with the London Philharmonic, the
Bournemouth ymphony, and given recital in many leading mu ic
fe tival . Her recent recital a winner of the Park Lane Mu ic ociety
competition at London' Purcell Room won her great critical
acclaim. Nicola' interest in folk mu ic ha led to a recording of
British folk-influenced r pertoire, performance of improvised
Flamenco music with guitari t Juan Martin, and performances on
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the Andean bamboo flute ( ueria) during a British ouncil tour of
Ecuador.
Colln jackson, cello olin Jackson studied acou tics at Durham and outhampton
Universities, before entering on a mu ical career. He has been for
many years a cellist with the Royal pera House orche tra where he
play on the fir t de k.
Henry Roche, piano Henry Roche is head of Music taff of the Royal Ballet, for whom
h ha played ince 1977, recently performing Ravel' major con
certo at the New York Metropolitan pera. He i the gr at-great
grand on of Mo chele and is organi er of a eries of concerts of hi
mu ic in London, including the Bicentenary concert in 1994, a
well as performing his compo ition in Prague, Leipzig and Athen .
Monday 2 November, 7.30pm St john's, Smith Square
Festival Opening The Rt Hon Chris Smith MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will open the Festival from the stage. The concert opens with a Grand hofar Fanfare for I ra I' Jubilee,
compo ed for th Festival by Malcolm Miller. It will be performed
by the hofar ensemble that competed on 1 November for the world
record for th greate t number of shofar blowers.
Israel: The Musical Melting Pot lucie Skeaping and The Burning Bush Lucie Skeaping, voice, violin, rebec, finger cymbals Robin jeffrey, oud, laouto, mandolin, percussion, guitar Roddy Skeaping, violin, rebec, mandolin, yayli -tambour, musical arrangements Ben Harlan, clarinets, darabukka Robert Levy, double bass Kevin Street, accord ion, trumpet
upported by City of Westminster and Bnai Brith Leo Baeck Mens Lodge.
In I rael today, there i a new and growing appreciation f the old
mu ical tradition. hi year, a the I raeli tate rea he it Jubilee,
thi pr gramme recall the diver ity and univer al appeal f the ul
ture .
Der Heyser Bulgar A traditi nal klezmer tune from P land, made popular in the U A
earlier thi century by the clarin ti t Naftule Brandwine.
Avrix mi Galanica (Open the door, my love)
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Text Jude - pani h: c llected in he alonica, featuring the
01 Ich ru repetition omm n in Ea tern Mediterranean ng.
, pen the door my I ye, it i dawn, I cannot leep for thinking of
you.' 'My father i r ading- he will hear u !' 'Put out the light and
he will fall a leep.' 'My mother i ewing- he will hear u !' 'Hide
her needle, he will fa ll a leep.' 'My brother i writing- he will
hea r u !' 'Hide hi pen and he will fall a le p.'
Yo menamori d'un aire (I fell in love with the charms) ext Judeo- pani h: 'I fell in love with the charm of a beautiful
w man, the moonlight wa my undoing, if it had been daylight,
I ve would not have bound me. N ext tim I fall in love it will be a
day of un hine.'
Terkisher Bulgar Tanz, Varshaver Freylechs Traditi nal klezmer tune .
Gey ich mir schpatsirn (One day when I went walking) A Yiddi h fi Ik ong where a pirited girl gets her own back on a
b y wh let her down.
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Chassidic Dance 13 A gentle rhythmic dance led by two violin .
Sha! Shtill! A popular Yiddi h song. ' h! on't mak a ound, the Rabbi is
about ro dance! on't move! T he Rabbi will oon dance! And a he
dance the wall dance too. Let' aJl clap our hand and stamp our
feet! h! he Rabbi is about ro ing! And as he sing, atan i ban
i hed for eternity. '
Morena me Laman (They call me (the brown girl') An anci ne and wide pread text fo und in several other part of the
panish peaIcing world. 'They call me "the brown girl" bu I was
born white; from gaily walIcing abroad I 10 t my colour. From
tho e window arrow are shot at me. If they be the arrows of love
let them fly traight ro me! T h on of the Icing call me "the
brown girl"; if he asks me agai n, I will go with him.'
Tum Balalaika (Play Balalaika) A very popular Yiddi h riddle ong, based on a erman folk tune.
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'A young man wonders who to take for hi wife: 'Tell me, maiden,
what grows without rain? What burns without a fir ? What cri
without tears?' 'Foolish boy, don't you know?: a stone grows with
out rain; a love burn without fire; a heart grows without tear .'
Chassidic Dance 28 Led by two mandolins.
Yendome Para Marsilia (I went to Marseilles) In this Judeo- panish song, the hero takes a trip to Belle £poque
Marseilles and is delighted, and a little shocked, at the permis ive
atmosphere, contrasting with what he is used to in the citie of the
ttoman Empire. 'I went to Mar eilles on a merchant steamer, I
assure you, my beloved, that I had a good time. Beautiful
Marseilles, extremely beautiful-many young girl roaming about,
and you can get three or four of them for a coin! What a good life
I live with the little I have. My vices are my undoing, but my
deed are better than a banquet.'
Adio Querida (Goodbye my love) Judeo- pani h. An interesting example of creative adaptation in
folk music- the tune comes from Addio del passato from Verdi' La Traviata. In this arrangement we have tried to evoke the ephardi
immigration to outh America at the turn of the century. 'The day
your mother bore you, she didn't give you a heart to love anoth r.
oodbye my love, I don't want to live, you have made life bitter
for me. 0 find another lover, knock on other door because for
me you are dead.'
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Seal erica d'Oro (Little Ladder of Gold) A traditional ephardi wedding song, here played in trumentally a
it might have sounded in a Middle Eastern town during the la t
centuty.
Una Hija tiene el Rey (The king had a daughter) An example of a Judeo- panish Romance, narrative ballad which
bare a r semblance to the border ballad of ngJand and cotland.
Those were often extremely long and concerned with the doing of
royalty, chivalrous exploits or erotic intrigues.' he Icing had a
daughter, a preciou only daughter. He locked her up in a high
tower to keep her well guarded. ne day he looked out of the
window and saw a handsome harve t man owing seed. he called
out to him: 'Li ten, harve t man, I love you in my ou!.'
Yemenite Songs: to be announced
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Sirba mit Harbster bletlekh (Sirba with falling leaves) hi Romanian irba may have been popular around the Autumn
Jewish fe tival of ukkot, when od's care during the wandering in
the inai wilderne i acknowledg d and celebrated.
Moldavian Hora: Fun Taschlach
Cuando el Rey Nimrod (When King Nimrod) 'When King Nimr d went out into the field he 10 ked up into th
heavens among the tar and saw a holy light over the Jewi h
Quarter, for father Abraham wa born. he wife ofTerah wa
pregnant, he knew the good thing he wa bearing. Let u alute
the Father and the circumciser, that by Hi grace the Rede mer
came to u and took pity of all I rael. ive prai e to the Truth.'
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Avre tu puerta cerrada (Open your door) This beautiful melody seems to display the recent influence of
pani h or Italian music in the ephardi world.' pen your door,
there is no light on your balcony. Love watche over you, come my
rose let us leave this place, I only a ked for your beauty, a od
gave it to you. It i pure and I alone deserve it. J
Arvoles Lloran por Lluvias (The trees weep for the "ain) An extremely w Il known text throughout the Judeo- pani h
speaking c mmunity, thi love ong ha another even more
poignant significanc : the choru wa aid to have been sung by
the Jew of Rh de a they wer deported to Au chwitz during the
econd World War. 'The tree weep for the rain and the moun
tain for the wind; thu my eye weep for you, my love. What will
become of me? I will die in a strange land. White you are, white
are your clothes, white i your body, white al 0 are the flower
which fall from your b auty. he rain has fallen and ha drenched
the street and the courtyard. to my love and tell her/him that
thi water come from my eye .'
Doina; Russian Shers An improvised Klezmer- tyle clarinet 01 followed by thr e
Ru sian dance. her were a type of quar dance popular at wed
ding . The e one are Ukrainian in rigin.
The Performers
The Burning Bush The Burning Bush i Britain' mo t widely acclaimed traditional
Jewi h mu ic en emble. ed by th inger and broadcaster Lucie
keaping, all five musician ar leading performer in the field of
early, baroque, traditional and popular mu ic.
heir repertoire repre ent the tw main branch of the J wi h
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diaspora, the ephardi and Ashkenazi tradition. This music, large
ly pr erved in the oral tradition, reflects the musical language of the
countrie where Jewi h communitie etded over the centuries.
Ballad, folk ong and romances, ome dating back ro Medieval
pain, co-exi t with melodie of reek or Turkish origin from the
late ttoman Empire. Yiddi h song and Klezmer melodie how
the inAuence of early jazz with the immigration to the New World
at the turn of the century. Many ong were ung in th home from
mother to hild, other were written for the ghettO theatres: all por
tray the univer al theme of love, orrow or the vici icude of very
day life.
T he Burning Bu h' interpretati n reAect the hi tOrical and local
character of the mu ic through the u e of traditional instrument
and cyles of performance. The klezmer bands of the Ashkenazi
world were riginally tring group (,kle-zmer' mean literally 've -
el of song', originally the in trument them elves and then the
name given to the player and their particular cyle of music), but
during the la t century the clarinet gradually acquired a predomi
nant po ition. T he Middle Ea tern a pect of the ephardi repertoire
i repre ented by in truments including the oud, the universal Arab
and Turki h lute; the rebec; and the goblet- haped drum.
The Burning Bu h wa formed after Lucie keaping wa com
mi i ned by the BB to make a programme to mark the quincen
tenary of the expul ion of the Jews from pain. ince their debut
concert at ondon' ueen lizabeth Hall they have performed t
pack d hou e at maj r fe tival and cultural event throughout the
UK. Recent activitie include Briti h ouncil pon ored tour to
a tern • urope, the ala M morial concert for Hugo ryn at
L ndon' Barbican Hall, br adca t for BB Radio 2 and 3, mu ic
Ft r TV c mmercial and documencarie (in luding the theme for a
re ent two-part documentary about I rael and Pale tinian ) and an
appearance in the recently relea ed film, The overness. With a i
rance from the Art ouncil, member f the group have al 0 vi it
ed Jeru alem for a period of re ea rch.
The Burning Bu h have r I a ed three : 'Rai in and
Almond' ( aydi c); 'Klezmer, Yiddi h and ephardic Mu ic'; and
'KJezmer and Ha idic Mu ic' (AR International). Their fourth
, ' ong and Mu ic f I rael' will be relea ed next pring.
Lucie Skeaping, voice, violin, rebec, finger cymbals
Lu ie keaping trained at the R yal Ilege of Mu ic. he ame to
Jewi h mu i thr ugh her intere t in Medieval and Renai ance
Engli h mu ic. AI 0 a frequent broadca ter, pr gramm and fea
cure Ft r BB in lude: Lucie keaping's Jewish Music The Music of amuel Pepys, ongs My Mother Taught Me and Music Restored, piu
her hannel F ur TV eri for y ung pe pie Make Music Fun. With the Burning Bu h and her ther en emble T he icy Wait, he
per6 rm all ver the world, in luding Briti h un il t lIr to the
Middle and Far a t, a tern urope and andinavia. Re ord
in lude Pills to Purge MeLancholy, Raisins and Almonds, English
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National Songs, The Cantigas of Santa Maria, Traditonal Music of Provence. he is currently Arti tic irector of the Windsor Festival .
Robin Jeffrey, oud, laouto, mandolin, percussion, guitar
Robin Jeffrey studied at idney u ex ollege, ambridge and
Royal ollege of Music, London. A peciali t in the Renaissanc and
Baroque periods, he works with leading early music ensemble all
over the world including Harry Christopher , Rene Jacob and John
Iliot ardiner. R cent appearance include Purcells' King Arthur, at
eatro Belem, Li bon, Monteverdi' Orfeo, at La C haise ieu,
France,. Purcell' Fairy Queen for nglish National pera, Au tralian
tour and recording of Handel' amson, and Medieval hri tma
mu ic with T he ixteen. He spends part of each year working in
Athen with traditional reek mu ician .
Roddy Skeaping, violin, rebec,
mandolin, yayli-tambour, musical arrangements
Roddy keaping ha been involved in the revival of Early music for
much of hi life, performing with leading en embles. He taught
viola da gamba at the Royal ollege of Mu ic, later appointed
Leverhulme Research Re earch Fellow. He has made countle s
recordings of early mu ic with en emble including the English
on ort of Viol, the on ort of Musick and the Academy of
Ancient Mu ic and for many year worked in clo e collaboration
with the late countertenor Alfr d ell r. Work includes original
compo ition for TV-, choir- and chamber n emble ,theatre core
(including for the Royal National Theatre) and work hop for
chool.
Ben Harlan, clarinets, darabukka
Ben Harlan i a graduate from the uildhall chool of Mu ic and
rama. He ha a pecial intere t in improvi ation techniques, 011-
temporary mu ic and jazz. ther activitie include clarinet work-
hop for chools and performances 10 a duo with hi brother,
piani t ominic Harlan.
Robert Levy, double bass
Robert evy tudied at urnbirn Mu ic chool and at Bregenz
on ervatory, Au tria (double bas, guitar and jazz). H works
mainly in mu ical theatre including the award-winning how 'Five
uy Named Moe.' Performance with other group include
regori chechter' Klezmer e tival Band, Klezmer roove and
Loby Boby (Brazilian Jazz). Recent appearanc include th film
Evita and The Fifth Province.
Kevin Street, accordion, trumpet
Kevin treet i one of a handful of pr fe ional accordioni t work
ing in L ndon , and i unique a a doubling trumpet player. tage
w rk include Piafwith laine Paige and many productions for the
Royal National Theatre. He was Mu ical irector for heatre de
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Complicite and West End work include Fiddler on the Roof with
Topol and Oliver, both at the London Palladium. He ha made
many recording for BBC radio and TV, and recently took part in
the We t End cast recording of Beauty and the Beast.
Tuesday 3 November, 8.30pm Bnai Brith Hillel House
Psalm Settings in the Jewish and Christian Traditions A talk by Professor Uri Sharvit, Bar Itan University, Israel Presented by the Jewish Music Heritage Trust and the British ociety for Practitioners of Jewish Music
Wednesday 4 November, 7.30pm Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood
The Musical Tradition of the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin Rabbi John Levi, presenter On CD: Joseph Schmidt, tenor Frederick Lechner, baritone Herman Schey, baritone Choir of 100 voices, conducted by Herman Schildberger. Presented by The Liberal Jewish rynagogue, t John's WOod.
In 1994 Rabbi John Levi from Au tralia appear d ar Berh
Hatefut oth in Tel Aviv, to reil the tory of rhe hi torical recording
he po e ed and to play a tape f om of rhe mu ic. he mu ician
re pon ible for th r cording had been r Hermann hildberger
who emigrated t Au rralia in 1939, on the eve of'WI rid War Il,
where he continued hi profe ional work. He had brought a et of
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these recording to Au tralia and after hi death the collection wa
miraculou Iy pre erved. The c ngregation of Rabbi John Levi, Beth
Israel of Melbourne, c ntinues to ing ome of the prayer in thi tradition (rhough in Hebr wand not in rman!).
r Hermann childberger had been music direcror of rhe
Reform ongregation of Berlin and he arranged and published rhe
complere anthology of mu ic u ed for rhe sacr d ervic of hi com
munity. The anthology served a rhe full core for rhe recording.
These were made ar a srudio b rween 1928- 1930 wirh a profes-
ional choir of ne hundred voice, rwo organi rand ome young
soloisr who wer among the mo r brilliant inger of the time.
Hermann childberger wa th conductor throughour. The enter
pri e co t abour £10,000 and wa financed by rhe famou publi her Han Lachmann-Mosse.
T he D' contain a elecrion of mu ic from rhi treasure-rrove.
It wa , of cour e, nece ary to clean up and enhance rhe sound using
modern technology. Thi wa originally done in Au cralia and c m
pleted in Israel.
f rhe w alrh of uropean rradition of th pre-Holocau r era
very little has urvived. Th pre enr collecrion i an invaluable
memorial to ne of the mo t brilliant among the e mu ical tradirions.
Thi mu IC ha b n heard beft re ar rhe Lib ral Jewi h
ynagogue, t John' Wood. n Friday 18 July 1930, a ab bath eve ervice wa held a part of th 'WI rid Union f Pr gre ive
ynagogue confer n e. They u ed a tran larion f rhe erman
prayer bo k u ed by the Reform ongr garion of Berlin and rhe
Mu ical Interlude were raken from rhe every rec rding .
Rabbi John Levi Rabbi John Levi erve in th Au tra lian, Asian and New Zealand
Union for Progre ive Judai m. He wa b m in M Ib ume in 19 4 and wa rabbi f 1i mple Beth I rael ft r 7 ye r . He i the auth r
of three bo k on Au tralian Jewi h hi tory and i a Member f the rder of Au tra lia.
Thursday 5 November, 7.30pm Yakar Study Centre
Cantorial Masterclass Cantor Benzion Miller Harold Lester, piano
ant r Miller guide a piring cant r thr ugh me f rhe m t
important piece of the Jewi h li turgi I repert ire
Cantor Benzion Miller F r biography, ee page 2
Harold Lester, piano L ndon-born Harold e ter tudied mu i at Trinity ollege f
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Mu ic, peciali ing in all aspect of keyboard work, 010 piano, piano
accompaniment, chamber mu ic, repetiteur work, harp ich rd 010
and ntinuo, and rgan.
e lead a varied mu ica1 life, r cord ing, performing and con
ducting in appearanc with lead ing orchestra and baroque cham
ber gr up . A peciali t in baroque mu ic, he ha tour d exten ively
over ea a well a acc mpanying Alfred eller for many year. He
ha alway maintained a clo e intere t in Jewi h mu ic, taki ng part
in many c nc rt with internati nally famou hazza nim, and i
al mu ical dir ct rand rgani t f the We tmin ter ynagogu.
Thursday 5 November, 7.30pm St GUes, Cripplegate
Russian and Polish Romantics Evgeny Soifertis, piano
Sonata No. 6 in D minor, opus 73 Vaynberg
Valse-Fantasie in B flat minor linka
Sonata No. 6 in A major, opus 82 Pr k fiev
Interval
Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, opus 36 Rachmanin v
Four Mazurkas, opus 24 hopin
i) minor ii) C major iii) A fl4t major iv) B flat minor
Spanish Rhapsody Li zt
Vaynberg: Sonata No. 6 in 0 minor, opus 73 Very few mpo er at the end f the twentieth entury have pro
duced a much a M i he Vaynberg: tweny- ix ymphonie, ven
pera , a hundred r manc ,and dozen f hamber in trumental
mu i pie e . B rn in 1919 in War aw, a a young child he howed
great pr mi e a a piani t. "ntering the Warsaw n ervat ry at the
age f twelve, Vaynberg wa h wn t Jo eph Hoffman wh liked
him very much < nd arranged 6 r him to tudy with him in the
United tate. hi wa, h wever, n t po ible wing to the n et of
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th second world war. Wartime events profoundly influenced all hi
compo ition , and in 1939 Vaynberg e caped and cros ed the bor
der into Ru sia. All hi family were killed by Nazi in the War aw
gh tto.
As both a friend and colleague, Vaynberg wa highly r garded by
ho takovich. In 1948 during talin repre ion, Vaynberg wa
impri oned a hi wife was a niece of one of a group ofKremlin doc
tor who were accused of trying to poi on talin. ho takovich saved
hi life by writing to the authorities and pleading with them.
Hi mu ic can be as ociated with the writing of holom
Aleichcm. ho takovich of course had an impact on Vaynberg, but
hi thematic mat rial i very individual and contain the roOt of
both Jewish and lavonic folklore mu ic. Hi music is not openly
religiou , but religion can be d tected in the mu ic.
he onata contains twO movement: a low movement followed
by a fa t movement.
Vaynberg continued to work up to hi death, compo ing in b d
for the final y ar of his life . His works have been performed by
i trach, Ro tropovich, ilels, The Borodin uartet, and
Rozdestven ki.
Glinka (1804-1857): Valse-Fantasie in B flat minor The music of linka , the founder of Ru ian cia ical music, i for
ome r a on little known in the We t. However, Berlioz appreciated
it greatly and wrote,' linka' talent i di tingui hed by unu ual flex
ibility and variety ... great harmoni ation ... and lively orche tration.'
Li zt wa al 0 delighted with linka's mu ic and in 1879 wrote to
linka' iter, 'YOut remarkable brother linka wa one of the great
e t idol of my youth. I became acquainted with hi gen iu in 1842
and at my la t concert in 1843 played my tran cription f
Chernomor's March and other arrangement of motif: from that
opera Ruslan and Ludmila. linka r main the patriarch and
prophet of mu ic in Ru ia'.
linka' piano works are quite varied. Hi view n piano play
ing were inAuenced by the outstanding ngli h piani t and com
po er John Field whom he idoli ed. He took le on from him and
hi pupils. According to hi ontemporarie, 'In linka' playing
there wa nothing decorative, nothing 0 tentatious. It wa imply
the pure t d light' .
In hi piano ompo ition linka never had recour to Aa hy
in trumental technique and uperficial effects of virtuo ity. Hi
w rks captivate by the poetical charm of their mu ical image,
expre ed with that implicity of which on ly great ani t are capable.
In general th fate f the waltz in Ru ia wa difficult. uring the
r ign of Paul I waltzing wa forbidden by a pecial police ord r.
Forty year later (1839) linka creat d a work of geniu the Fantasy Waltz, to which the compo er kept r turning (fir t compo ed for the
pian and ub equently r -arranged in two orche tral ver ions).
In 1845 th Fantasy Waltzwas ucc fully performed in Pari by
an orche tra onducted by Berlioz. he lyrical principle predomi-
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nates in thi work. 'The murmur of tender pa sion and melancholy
and sadness and omething dear, elu ive and inexplicable bur under
stood by the heart.' Thi de cription by A. Kern of linld
romance performed by the author himself also applie to the main
emotional mood of the Fantasy Waltz. While retaining sub tantial features of the waltz, linka lightly
elevates the main theme, giving it a pecial emotional en itivity.
The combination of the mo t refined arti try and acce ibility to the
general public can be felt in the whole of the work' imag ry and
intonations. In one way linka' work i particularly clo e to
Chopin' waltze and in the other to tho e of trau . linka
achieves a synthe is of the movement of dance and the lyricism of
song.
Feature of choreographic narration (anticipating Ravel 's Bolero) can be clearly felt. The combination of emotional open ne and
cha te r ticence, sincere sympathy and the mo t refined arti try,
carefree joie de vivre, profound lyrical feeling and lofty intellectual
i m, achieved by linka in the Fantasy Waltz is typical of Ru ian
artistic culture of Pu hkin's time. The cla ical waltzes of
Tchaikov ky, Glazunov and Prokofiev can be traced back to the
Fantasy Waltz.
Prokofiev (1891- 1953): Sonata No. 6 in A major, opus 82 ergei Prokofiev lived abroad for more than ixteen year. He
returned to his country with hi fir t wife, the pani h-Poli h opra
no Lina Llubera and hi fame was uch that he enjoyed protection
for a number of year. In the summer of 1939, in the town of
Kislovodsk, Prokofiev made the acquaintance of the twenty-four
year-old Mira Mendelson. Hi affection for the girl brought him
back to his favourite in trument. The same happened ixteen year
earli r when hi love for Lina, then twenty- ix year old, in pired
him to write onata no. 5.
But, since 1939 wa in many re pect a very eventful year for
Prokofiev, it seem unlikely that love ha been hi only urce of
in piration for thi onata. Hi dear friend, the tage dire tor
Vsevold Meyerhold wa arre ted on 30 June and di appeared after a
trial where he refused to admit alleged mi take in the pa t. The wifl
of Meyerhold, Zinaida, wa found murdered hortly after he wa
arrested. His own wife 10 t all support when he became a 'foreign
er' by the simple fact that Prokofiev had left her. All thi , together
with the re ults of the profound study Prokofiev made at that time
of the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven, mu t have been on
hi mind when he et out to write a pian onata. a compo er,
Prokofiev conceived theme and mov ment rath r than thinking of
a work a a whole. Thi way it could happen that hi work in
Ki lovod k re ulted in ketch for no le s than three piano onata.
In the early pring of 1940, in Mo cow, he fini hed th fir t f the e
a onata No. 6. Thi work, the long t of the nine onata he wrote,
i a powerful and tightly con truct d compo ition written in a tran -
parent tyle. Nonethele , it may be clear from the foregoing that
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thi work had little chance of becoming an example of ache rfu l
love- ong in onata form.
The Allegro Moderato open with a theme that give, through
rhythm and r petition, an impre ion of d i tre and anger. The second theme i very much to the contrary, ti lled and poetical. The
mu ic m ve between the contra ts, although aggr ion prevai l .
The econd movement, Allegretto, i a pa toral : cheerfu l, dancing
and melodiou . The v ry low third movement, Tempo di Valzer Lentissimo, i in a subdued mood, fu ll of ad contemplation. In their
form the cond and third movement ar alike: balancing between
a rond and a theme with variation. he Vivace begin playfully,
but midway through we find our elv back with the opening theme
of the onata. Th them i combin d with the material of the
fourth movement in a vision of utter de pair in the la t pag of thi
sonata and the mu ic come to a close with an unexpected exten ion
of the opening theme.
The first performance of the onata wa by Prokofiev on 8 Apri l
1940, during a concert in Mo cow that wa broadca t directly on
radio. he fi r t recording wa made in 1947 by Victor Merjanov
(one of oiferti ' teacher ), who e interpretation Pr kofiev liked very
much. ne year later the recording material and all the rec rd were
de troyed. Th onata wa denounced by the vern ment a per
vert dart.
Rachmaninov: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, opus 36 (2nd edition) Rachmaninov managed ucce fu lly to fo llow thr e m u ical di ci
plin in hi life-comp er c nductor and piani t. As a ompo er
he wr te '1 try t make my mu ic peak imply and d ire t1y that
which i in my heart at the time I am comp ing' . He wa , in fact a
romantic comp er writing after th romantic peri d. H i piano
mu ic wa written for hi own hand, which were extremely large
and ften the he r phy ical difficu lty r nder it beyond the capabil
itie of many piani t .
Pian onata No. 2 in B Aat minor wa writt n in 191 , an
xtremely amb iti u work, fu ll of wild de pair with an lectrifying
fina le. In 19 1 the comp er ub tantially revi ed the onata, utting
it and implifying the pian texture. The work wa dedicated t hi
friend M. Pre man. The two had tudied together. Pre man wa
al 0 a talented piani t and when he wa per ecuted, Rachma ni n v
took car of him and upported him.
Chopin: Four Mazurkas, opus 24 Between 1830 and 1849 hopin c mp d fifty- ix mazurka . They
have come to be v ry well kn wn and are f immen e charm and
ubtlety, adapting in an ideali ed way hi untry' native dan e.
Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody A thri ll ing h w- topper that u tw traditi nal melodie , 'J ta
Arag ne a' and' olie d ' pagne'.
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Evgeny Soifertis, piano vgeny oifert i wa born in Kiev and r ceived hi fir t piano le on
when aged fiv from Profe r M . Narodi t kaya, who e teacher,
Pr fe r Beklimicheff had been one f Bu oni ' favo urit pupil . At
the age of thi rteen, vgeny w n fir t pr ize at the Beethoven
om petition in Kiev. He tudied at the Mo cow on ervatory
under Pr fe or V Merjan ff and al took le on in chamber
mu ic with Profe r Makaroff wh performed with Yehudi
Men uh in and M ti lav R er p vi h and ma tercla e with N.
Magaloff. W hile ti ll a tudent vgeny performed through ut th
oviet Uni n. oon aft r moving t live in the Netherland he won
the Alex de Vrie F undat i n ompetition in Antwerp, a prize that
had previou ly been awarded to uch art i t a Beroff and
Pogor li h. He was also a prize-winner in the itta di Mar ala
ompetition in Italy.
vgeny' of works by Pr kofiev and ho takovich received
worldwide a claim from both criti and li teners ali ke. He ha
re endy mpleted the re rding of a omplete of linka piano
mu ic t; r Merid ian Record.
H i performan e in England include participation in the
tratford-up n-Av nand ra ington F tival and in Europ , the
Flander fe tival and venue thro ughout H lIand. He ha broadca t
on both radio and TV, in lud ing performanc on the 'Mu i for
Milli n ' programme in Holland and a Belgian fi lm of hi perfor
mance f the Pr kofiev onata N . 6. He ha given ma ter la e at
Trin ity liege, L nd n and given tw Wigm re Hall r cital .
Saturday 7 November, 7 ·30pm Bridewell Theatre
Saving Charlotte by Judi Herman A play with music, drawing on Charlotte Salomon's painted autobiography Life? or Theatre? A discussion will follow tonight's performance Mary Chater Annoushka Le Gallois Kristin Marks Kerry Shale directed by Jacqui Somerville music arranged and di rected by Wendy Gadian designed by Strange Pilgrims lighting designed by Malcolm Rippeth Presented by Just Productions in association with oncordance. T he play ru n at the Bridewell Theatre unti l aturday 21
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In tober 194 at the age f twenty- ix, the erman-Jewi h ani t,
ha rl tte al m n, five m nth pregnant, died in Au hwitz.
At the age f22, ent t her grandparent in the uth ofFran e,
away fr m her friend, fami ly and I ver, he d i overecl the terrible
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ecret of her mother' uicide and faced the choice of taking her own
life or 'undertaking omething wi ldly eccentric'. There he painted
th extraordinary serie of769 autobiographical painting, complete
with word and mu ical reference, to make the painted 'operetta'
Life? or Theatre? 'Take good care of it', she to ld the friend to whom
he entru t d the finished work, ' It is my whole life.'
And Life? or Theatre? urvived. Thu the tory can be told .
he moving y t humorou new play et in pre-war Berl in and
wartime France in lude c1as ical and contemporary m u ic, a pec
ified by harlotte her elf. he production of this new play coincide
with the exhibition of Life? or Theatre? at The Royal Academy con
tinuing unti l 17 January 1999 ( ee other events related to thi exhi
biti n: 9, 11, 16 November)
Sunday 8 November, 11.ooam The Jewish Museum (Cam den Town)
Talk: The World of Jewish Music Alexander Knapp Alexander Knapp, mu icologi t, broadcaster and Joe Lo ecturer
in Jewi h Mu i at ity Univer ity, London, trace the Jewi h mu i
cal her itage over the ag and acro the world .
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Sunday 8 November, 3.30pm Barbican Centre
Broadway to Hollywood The Oxford Philomusica Marios Papadopoulos, conductor, piano Gregori Schechter, clarinet Benzion Miller, cantor John Hill, lighting A popular concert cel brating the groundbreaking compo er who
cro sed the divide between th jazz cafe and concert hall, between
popular song and opera, ynagogue and concert tage, live perfor
mance and film.
'Ponsored by BMI Clementine Churchill Hospital. In the presence of His Excellency Vissilis . Zafiropoulos, Ambasador of Greece to the Court of t famess.
Candide Overture Leonard Bern tein
Amar Rabi Elazar Arr. M. y her from . Winternitz orche trated by Joseph Nes
Sheyibone Beis Hamikdosh I rael chorr, arr. Jo eph Ne
Shadows of Life and Death from The Heritage of Heaven Robert tras burg Donald McVay, solo viola
Theme from Schindler's List John William Robert Atchison, solo violin
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Rhapsody in Blue eorge ershwin, orchestrated by F rde rofe
Marios Papadopoulos conducts from the keyboard
Interval
Klezmer Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra (first performance)
regori chechter i) Introduction ii) Freylachs iii) Nigun
iv) Memories v) Coda Finale Gregori Schechter, solo clarinet
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Leonard Bernstein i) Prologue: Allegro moderato ii) omewhere: Adagio iii) cherzo: Vivace leggiero iv) Mambo: Presto v) Cha-Cha: And.antino con grazia vi) Meeting cene: Meno mosso
vii) Cool Fugue: Allegretto viii) Rumble: Molto Allegro ix) Finale: Adagio
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Candide Overture Leonard Bern tein wa ne of the mo t ver ati le mu ician of the
century. mpo r, pianist and conductor f international tature,
he, like er hwin, produced a number of timele ma terpie e .
mpleted in 1956, Candide i a mu ical ba ed n Voltaire' play of
the ame name. T he vertu re mu t be th brighte t anywh re,
witching eemle Iy from wing ro mooch, patho to j y, and ba k
again twice in four minute ! If ever Bern tein wr te a ignature tune,
it wa the Candide overture.
Moishe Oysher (1907-1958): Amar Rabi Elazar Moi h y her wa ne f the ut tanding cant rial voi e f the
twentieth entury. He i e pecially remembered 6 r hi elebrated
film r le . He wa b rn t a mu ical fami ly in Lipkon, Ba arabia
and wa a d cendant f ix generati n f ntor. He wa
immer ed in and c mmitted t the mu i f the ynagogue and can
torial art from hi hildho d nward but he wa alway drawn to
the theatre. He began appearing in theatri al pr du ti n a a hild
in the area f hi native town.
He left ur pe aged ab ut thirteen with hi family wh etded
fir t in Montr al and then Philadelphia. T here, he played vari u
role in Yiddi h T heatre nr t with the mall ompany f ~ If
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humsky and Berel Bernardi (father of the future Broadway actor
and H llywood film tar, Her hel Bernardi, tar of Fiddler on the Roof;. ter, y her joined the ca t of a prominent Yiddi h theatre
in Brooklyn, New York and toured the United tate and outh
America in th atrical producti n in 1935.
Moi he y her never abandoned his ther pa ion, the cantori
al art and the mu ic ofJewi h worship. In many way, therefore, hi
work both vocally and in hi own comp ition repre ent a fu ion of
the theatre and the ynagogue. This very 'cro over' however, did n t
alway m et with approval fr m religiou circl . When n hi return
from the outh American th atre tour, he wa app inted cantor for
the High Holyday at ne of New Yi rk' mo t imp rtant yna
gogue , the Romanian ynagogue on the lower ~a t id, there wa
a public outcry from the rthodox w rld in N w York who object
ed to the very n tion of an 'actor' officiating a cantor in an ortho
dox ynag gue. ummoned to a rabbinical tribunal for adjudication
f thi di pute, y her agreed to the tipulati n that he could con
tinue both endeavour only on conditi n that he nev r appear on
the tage on the abbath or H lyday . The publicity from thi inci
dent only cau d hi career to oar. He mad three Yiddish film in
the late 1930' : the emi-aut biographical Cantors on, The inging Blacksmith, and Overture to Glory, the tory of the legendary cantor
kn wn a the Vilna Baalhabei el. uring the ame period y her
al 0 appear d in major conc rt hall in America a well a urope,
rec rded for R: A Vi tor, and ang n num r u radi broadca ts.
Becau e f hi refu al to violate th abbath, howev r, he rejected
many ffer to appear in Broadway hows, alth ugh he did perform
on a number of nati nally br adca t televi ion h w b th a inger
and a tor. Hi wn mpo iti n reflect hi pecial mixture of influ
en e - theatri aI, dramatic, mu ical, liturgical and piritual.
Israel Schorr (1886-1935), arr. Joseph Ness: Sheyibone Beis Hamikdosh I rad ch rr wa b rn in the Au tr - ali ian mpire and began hi
antorial areer inging a a y ung child for th Rymanover R bbe,
late r be oming that Ha idic leader' ffi ial antor. In 1904 he
b ame the Hazzan ( antor) in emberg, ucceeding hi di tant r 1-ative, the lebrated B ruch chorr. Foll wing the Fir t World War,
during whi h he erved in the Au trian army he erved pulpit in
Brunn racow and Pie tyan, Hungary. He emigrat d t the United
tate in 1924, wh re he erved major ynag gue a antor and
made n err appea ran e . i etting for heyibone Beis Hamikdosh, xp r ing th undying hope for the M iani redem ption and
re t rati n f the an ient temple of Jeru alem, i und ubtedly ne
f hi m t fam u w rk . It 6 und it way into numer u concert
hall and broad at, and i a fu i n fliturgi al and m re theatri al
tyle. hi work wa made even more famou thr ugh it r nditi n
by the legendary antor M he Ku evit ky, wh e wn per onal
v r ion f it is the ne h ard in thi evening' per6 rmance. It or he trati n take the etting out f th realm f the ynag gue and
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place it in the milieu of the popular cantorial concert framework,
exhibiting the influence of Broadway performance tyle.
Robert Strassburg: Shadows of Life and Death Robert trassburg' The Heritage of Heaven, a suite for tring orche -
tra, wa written in 1946 and premiered in 1955 at a programme
honouring the American Jewi h entenary. The four movement
were inspired by biblical quotation from Moses, avid, Job and
I aiah. T he opening Andante is r verential in character, r flecting
Mo e' word in euteronomy 6: 5, ~d thou hall love Adonoy,
your 'd, with all your heart, with all your oul and with all your
might.' he second movement, Allegro moderato, is a chorale pre
lude, in which King avid, the Psalmist, i repre ented in the cello
and basse , 'Lord, who shall dwell upon your holy mountain? He
who walks upright and doe righteously, and peaks truth in hi
heart' (P aim 15: 1,2). In the third movement, which we hear today,
a 010 viola give voice to Job's great lament, 'My harp i tuned to
mourning, and my pipe to the voice of them who weep' Gob 31) .
This i supported by sombre muted trings. The int n ity and driv
ing power of the concluding Allegro Molto ari e out of the word of
the Prophet I aiah, 'For behold, the Lord wi ll come in fire and His
chariot hall b like the whirlwind! '
(Programme note by the composer, edited by Richard ee and Neil
evin)
As an acclaimed composer who career pan n arly two-thirds
of a century on both the a t and We t coast of the United tates,
Robert tra burg personifies in many ways the arti tic, cla ical and
Jewi h mu ical links between Broadway and Hollywood. e al 0
repre nt a olid bridge between eriou twentieth century mu ic
6 r the concert hall and th medium of film mu ic 0 much a part
fthe 0 Angele (Hollywood) area where he ha pent much of hi
life. Born in 1915 on the a t coa t, he received hi mu ical ed uca
tion and degree from the New ngland on ervatory and Harvard.
After relocating to alifornia and e tabli hing himself as a teacher
and conductor a well a compo er, he earned hi doctorate in mu ic
at the Univer ity of Judai m in Lo Angel .
He ha produced an unu ually wide variety of mu ic- acred
and ecular, in trumental and vocal, conc re and th atrical. Hi
liturgical works include ynagogue ervices, numerou p alm ettings
and other Hebraic piece, and a Jewi h 6 lk opera entitled Chelma work with seriou Broadway overtone combin d with twentieth
entury la sical idiom. ome of hi mo t important ecular art
mu ic ha been in pired by, or been directly related t , the poetry of
the legendary American poet, Walt Whitman, on whom he i con-
idered an auth rity. He was co-chairman of the International
Whitman entennial in 1992, for which he wrote a ten-movement
choral ymphony, Leaves of Grass. n the other hand, tra burg has
been extr mely prolific in the area of film mu ic-especially during
hi alifornia y ar . He has written over forty film score and much
docum ntary film mu ic, a well a incidental mu ic for the theatre.
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He i Profes or Emeritu of Music at ali~ rnia tate Univer ity,
where he is Founding irector of the Roy Harri Archives, and the
recipient of numerou award and honour - including the National
Institute of ArtS and Lettre , Macdowell Fellow hip and Miami'
ompo r of the Year award . Prior to hi appointment at alifornia
tate University, he wa ean of the chool of ine Art at the
Univer ity of Judai m in Lo Angel .
John Williams: Theme from Schindler's List Thomas Keneally' factual account of th life of indu triali t kar
chindler wa the ubj ct of a film by teven pielberg made in
1994. pielberg capture the drama and torm nt, the horror and
brutality of life in the concentration camp to produce a film that i
tunning in emotional impact. To do ju tice to a film of thi nature
required the most ensitive of touche and William ' truly touching
and emotive theme i perfectly weighted for the drama' rich with
emotion but not with sentimentality. he theme i play cl by a 01 violin which i the perfect choice since it is the one in trument mo t
a ociated with the Jewish nation a well as having a singular poten
tial (to touch the heart) among t the in trument of the orch tra.
George Gershwin (1898-1937): Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody in Blue was written in 1924, when er hwin wa only
twenty-five, and owe it exi tence to Paul Whiteman, who wa
planning an educational 'jazz' concert in N w York and want d
ershwin to write something specially for it. At fir t r hwin paid
no attention but after reading in a new paper that' eorg er hwin
i compo ing a jazz concerto' for thi concert h decided he might a
well tr at the whole bu ine more eriou ly. The eventual outcome
wa Rhapsody in Blue--written in le than ix weeks.
he argument till continue about the work' ucce a an
experiment in combining the free pirit of jazz with the formal di -
cipline of cIa ical mu ic. The argument i a pur ly academic one,
for by the tandard of popular acceptanc and mu ical njoyment,
Rhapsody in Blue i an undoubted ucces . From the famou opening
glissando to the very la t note, er hwin delight with melody and
rhythm that need n label to convince of their out tanding worth.
At th time he wrote thi, er hwin had very little experien e of
orche tration- in fact he had relied on a profe ional arrang r in the
person of Ferde rofe, to orche trate the work. rofe produced an
earlier version for a jazz band and later orche trated the work for full
orche tra. In today' concert, the full orche tra ver ion will be per
formed.
Gregori Schechter (b. 1957): Klezmer Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
regori ch chter had the idea of writing an rche tral Klezmer
Rhapsody for ome year. The opportunity came when the Jewi h
Mu ic Heritage Tru t commi ioned a work fi r thi year' Fe tival,
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regori who come fr m Ru ia and who ab orbed the klezmer
tradition from hi parents and grandparents ay that the idiom i
immediately recogni able, although all the tune are original. hi
work, about fifteen minute long, ha an introducti n, three move
ment and a coda. It ncompa e aried emotion, and a wide range
f tempi and dynami .
Freylachs (happy dance): Mter an introducti n which begin with
a hort clarinet cadenza in the tyle f a Rumanian doina, th re i
heard a hort ad melody that will appear again in the third move
ment. The tring with piani imo tympan i then take up the tune.
The momentum gather and the 01 larinet and r h tra vie with
ach ther for speed and excitement. T hi glo my ep isode oon
modulate to a major key and the movement ontinue and end
with uplifting pirit.
Nigr,m (lyrical melody): T he ob e tart with a very weet, lyrical
melody accompanied by oft pizzicat tring. Tw clarin t then
take up the ame melody in parr. The developm nt include all the
woodwind and within thi movement we hear an epi ode f rien
tal melody.
Memories: T hi p ignant movement wa compo ed fir t and
form the central focu of the work. It maintains a low temp with
ome variation of rhythm with the orche tra taking up the ad m tif
briefly heard at the end of the Introduction. In thi movement the
clarinet ob and even cr am bllt there i light and h p and the
movem nt modu late to fin i h in the major key.
oda Finale: tak it melodi from the fir t Freylach . he lar
inet tart a rhythmic acc mpaniment with whi h wh le r he tra
join in. T h n the 01 clarinet tart the Freylach again in the u ual
minor k y and then udden ly goe int the maj r for the final
grand coda.
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
e rge er hwin and Le nard Bern tein were b th Jewi h com
po er from New York wh erved and e1ebrated an urban
metr poli. er hwin wa a popular entertainer wh made art
mu ic, while Bern tein, a cia ical ompo er, al had fabu l u uc
ce in the comm r ial world. Hi core f the Br adway mu i al
west ide tory, whi h pen din 1957, wa a rounding ucce and
ha ju t b en revived in London. It adapt hake pare' Romeo and Julietand et it in New York am id t the racial and religiou t n i n
of the i panic immigrant, pr viding an entertainment whi h, by
being al 0 art, den t d ny the tragic dimen i n f hake pea re'
play. It urvive t a on ert mu ic ince Bern tein, perhap rec g
ni ing that the pie e ntain hi m t in pired mu i , pr du ed a
' ymphonic uite' whi h, like er hwin' n ert pie e, eem t
have w n a permanent pIa e in the repert ry.
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The Performers
The Oxford Philomusica Vladlmir Ashkenazy, patron Marios Papadopoulos, music director Robert Atchlson, leader Under the arti tic direction of Mario Papadop ulo , T he xford
Phil mu i a pre ent the twenty-fir t century role of the modern
ymph ny rche era. It ffer on ert performance - ymphony
and chamber orche era, chamber mu ic, recital - educational pro
gramme for ch I and profe ional po t-graduate inv Ivemene; a
plat6 rm 6 r young arti t ; the encouragement of new compo ition ;
r cord ing and media work; an agen y for cultural exchange and
tour.
In February 1999, The xford Phil mu i a will pre nt it fir t
xford c ncert erie at the hi toric heldonian Theatre. oloi t
include teven I erli, alina Vrach va and Maurice Ha on. he
concurr nt chamber mu ic erie, at the H Iywell Music Room in
a ociation with xford Univer ity Press will incorporate premi re
by Briti h comp er, and in February and Mar h 1999, th y will
tour witzerland' major citie . A first ever tour of eorgia and
Azerbaijan by a Briti h rche tra i planned for May with plan
under way 6 r an American tour in the ummer.
Am ng tit rec rding pr gramme, he xford Philomu ica will
be re rding work featured in thi afte rnoon' concert for the U If Milken Foundation Archive of Jewi h Mu ic.
The x6 rd Phil mu ica i manag d by The xford
Phil mu i a Tru t: Philip N wman, chairman, avid t ne,
chief exe utive.
Marios Papadopoulos, piano and conductor B rn in ypru, Mario Papad p ulo ' areer ha taken him all over
n ere piani t and ndu t r. In 1967 he
m ved t L nd n, tudying with 11 na Kabo , and in 1973 wa
ele ted Young Mu i ian f the ye ar by the reater nd n Art
A iati 11. e made hi d but in L nd n a year later at the ucel1
lizabeth all and in N w Yi rk at the in oln entre in 1976. H
hold a t rate in Mu i fr m ity Univer ity, Lond n. Thi
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year, he ha been nominated by the ypru overnm ne for the
1998 International Music Prize of UNE
Following a distingui hed career as a concert pianist, be began
his conducting career in 1976. In 1985 he appeared at London'
ueen Elizabeth Hall in a erie playing three conc rt and direct
ing nine Mozart oncerto. He ha ince twice performed the com
plete cycle of all the Mozart oncereo . He ha conducted the
urop an ommunity hamber rche era, the London Mozart
Player, the Royal Philharmonic rche tra and the Philharmonia
horu . He ha been gue t conductor in France
omique, Pari ), the United tate, Brazil, outh Mrica
and reece. In opera, he ha conducted Mozarc' Magic Flute and
Verdi' 11 Trovatore for th reek National pera. H return there
next ea on to conduct Mozart' Marriage of Figaro. Principal ue t onductor of th City of xford rche era
from 1993, he b came it Principal onductor in 1996. In June
1998, he b came founder member and Mu ic irector of The
xford Philomu ica.
Mario Papadopoulos has r corded fourteen s and has been
acclaimed for hi recording of travin ky' Concerto for Piano and Wind (Hyperion), for dir cting the Royal Philharmonic rche tra
from the keyboard, and for hi recording of ho takovich's 24 pre
lude and fugue. i 010 recording of the Beethoven onatas have
been ingled out a out tanding both by las ic M Magazin and
the Daily Telegraph.
Cantor Benzlon Miller For biography, ee page 26
Gregori Schechter, composer, clarinet Fr m an ea rly age, regori howed remarkabl mu ical kill and j
now the mu ical director, ompo er, arranger, larineti t and axo
ph ni t of the Kl zmer Fe tival Band and other en emble . He tud
i d at the T haikov ky on rvatory in hi home town of Alma Ata
in Ru ia. After graduating, he perfl rmed throughout the oviet
Uni n and he wa n a much ought-after player. He be am the
principal ax ph ni t in a pre tigiou how band and ha experien e
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playing and conducting, composing and arranging almo t every type
of mu ic.
regori emigrated to I rael in 1987 with hi fami ly. Eagerly
accepted by the I raeli Police Band he ptoduced a number of very
ucces ful arrangement for them a well a playing clarinec. In I rael
he met ue, hi London-born wife, and came to ettle in ngland.
It was regori's father who fir t introduced him to the mu ic of
the Klezmer. regori's arrangement come traight from Rus ian
and Eastern uropean tradition. Apart from hi experti e in
Klezmer, regori's varied repertoire of musical tyle rang from
la ical through to Big Band, I raeli and C ha idic mu ic a well a
all style of Jazz. As a chari matic player and particularly gifted com
po er and arranger, regori chechter tran port hi listener to
realm of sheer delight.
Sunday 8 November, 7.30pm
Sternberg Centre for judaism
Jewish Life and Folksong in Slovakia Pavol Mestan, speaker Ervin Schonhauser, voice Eugon Gnoth, piano Profes or Pavol Mestan irector of the Mu eum of Jewi h ulture
in Brati lava will give a talk on the Jew of lovakia, followed by a
concert of Yiddi h, Hebrew and Ru ian ong by lovak-Jewi h
inger rvin chonhau er and piani t Eugen noth.
Ervin chonhau er, the on of a cantor, i a urvivor of the Nazi
death camp of ered and Terezin and live in Brati lava. He ha per
formed for the former Pre ident of lovak Republic, Michal Kovac,
at a Holocau t Memorial eremony and in ynagogue in Prague.
Whil t the Jewi h quarter in Prague remain n of the zech
Republic' mo t popular touri t attraction, little i kn wn f the
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Jew of lovakia, most of whom w re ki lled during the econd
World War. In 1991 , the lovak National Mu eum took the tep of
etting up a eparat department to deal with Jewi h culture, which
in 1994 became the Mu eum of Jewish ulture. Thi i hou ed in a
building in Z idovska ereet Oewi treet) and further di plays can
be found in two ynagogue in Brati lava. Included in the collection
are item formerly in the National Jewi h Mu eum in Prague which
were returned to lovakia in 1993.
xhibition at the ternberg ntre include photograph of the
ynagogu and other ite of Jewi h intere t in lovakia a well a
works by arti t Imro Weiner-Kral. ( ee page #)
Monday 9 November, 7.30pm St james's Piccadilly
Tribute Concert for Charlotte Salomon A concert to commemorate the 60th anniversary of 'Kristallnacht', and private view of Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical exhibition Life? or Theatre? at the Royal Academy of Arts Introduced by Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts Eileen Hulse, soprano George Mosley, baritone Music Projects/London:
Richard Bernas, conductor Nancy Ruffer, flute TIm Holmes, clarinets julian Poore, trumpet Martin Hepple, horn Ron Bryans, bass trombone Hugh Webb, harp Helen Crayford, ce leste Robert Keeley, piano and continuo The Bingham Quartet plus double bass: Steven Bingham, violin Sally-Ann Weeks, violin Brenda Stewart, viola james Halsey, ce llo Corrado Canonici, double bass Presented by the Jewish Music Heritage Trust in association with the RoyaL Academy of Arts.
Sonata about Jerusalem Alexand r ehr
Hertzgewachse opus 2 0 Arnold h enberg
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String Quartet in D minor Veath and the Maiden' Franz chubert
Cantata BVW158 Ver Friede sei mit dir' ]. . Bach
The Performers
Music Projects/London Mu ic Pr ject ILondon wa founded by Richard Berna and tr m
b ni t R g r William in 1978. he en emble ha e tabli hed it elf
a one f Britain' fine t twentieth entury mu ic en mble, known
particularly for the range and imaginati n of it pr gramming. From
the ut t, it aim were t r viv ignificant work by major com
po r , to introduce t Britain compositi n that have been heard
abroad and to collaborate with the younger ge nerati n of
compo er .
As well a appearing at ngland' leading contemporary mu ic
fe tival , it r cord r gularly for the BB and has al 0 r orded for
Radi France and BRT. It erie of pr ductions, New Images of otmd, wa initiated at London' River ide tudio and then relocat
ed to the A1meida heatre; the late t concert , a three-part portrait
f new American mu ic, wa produced in conjunction with the
R yal Academy of Art 'blo kbu ter' xhibition American Art in the
Twentieth Century. ue t onductor of Mu ic Project I ondon hav includ d the
c mpo er John Adam , im n Bainbridge, John a ken and liver
Knu en. It ha r c rded for NM and Virgin la ics. Mu ic
Project IL ndon' fir t relea e for the Argo label feature harle
Ive' omplete ets for Theatre rchestra i relea ed next year.
Richard Bernas, conductor Ri hard Berna wa b rn in N ew York ity, later m ving to ngland
where he read mu ic at Yi rk Univer ity. After tudying condu ting
with Wit Id R wi ki in War aw and Fran 0 F rrara in iena h wa
Re ident nductor at u ex Univer ity and a i ted ir harle
M ackerra in a number of production , notably the R H perfor
man e f lu k' Alceste. In 1978, he founded Music
Proje t IL ndon, which ha e tabli hed it elf a ne fBritain' I ad
ing twentieth century mu ic en embl . e ha been guest onduc
tor f maj r r he tra in Finland, Iceland, the N etherland ,
Belgium, France Japan and Britain. nducted the BB
ymphony r he tra and at the BB
in luded large- ale pr ducti n for y n, Pari , oni h pera,
N , N etherland pera and the pera de Ba tille a well a cham-
~ r the A1meida and A1deburgh Fe tival and BB
e ha frequently gue t ndu ted for the R yal Ballet
at arden.
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the R yal Philharm ni 0 iety Prize for Be t
reek by M ark Anth ny Turnage and th 199 1
ramophone Award for his first
a ken.
Bingham String Quartet Stephen Bingham,violin Sally-Ann Weeks, violin Brenda Stewart, viola James Halsey, cello
, the opera Golem by John
ne of a fine tradition of Briti h tring quartet fo rmed and devel
oped under the guidance of idney ri ller at th e Royal Academy of
M u ic,the Bingham uartet take it place a one of the United
Kingdom' fo remo t chamber en emble , with a fi ne reputation fo r
interpretation of the cla ical repertoir and a fre h and exciting
approach to new mu ic. T hey have performed at Briti h mu ic
Fe tival and ocietie, a well a on the outh Bank. For ngli h
H eritage, th y perform th med concert at th e Kenwood rangery
and Ranger H ou e. With clarineti t avid Camp bell, they have
toured in urope and a far as the Uni ted Arab Emirate and
Australia, recorded fo r the BB and made a of Brahm and
Mozart clarinet quintet. Education and community work has
become an important part of the quartet's work.
Tuesday 10 November, 7.30pm Western Marble Arch Synagogue,
With Heart and Soul Cantor Benzion Miller, baritone Daniel Gildar, piano London Synagogue Singers Neil Levin, conductor Presented in association with western Marble Arch >Jnagogue.
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ne of the world's fine t cantors, Benzion Miller, from New York,
performs the great liturgical setting by the legendary antor
omposer of the olden era: Yo ele Rosenblate, Pierre Pinchik,
Moshe Kou ewitzky and other. He al 0 perform beloved Yiddi h
folk and heatre song by halom ecunda and Jo eph Rum hin ky.
The Performers
Benzion Miller, baritone antor Benzion Miller' inging career began in early hildhood
when from the age of five, he wa called upon to ing at Jewi h func
tion as the lead oloi t in the Ye hiva choir and a a 010 performer.
He received hi education at the Bobover Ye hiva in Brooklyn
and at the Bobover Ye hiva K dushat Zion in Bat Yam, I rael. Hi
ba ic knowledge of and training in cantorial mu ic wa received
under the guidance of hi father, the very popular antor and Reb
Aaron Miller. Benzion Miller studied mu ic theory and elfeggio
under Cantor amuel B. Taube of Montreal, anada and Rehovot,
I rael . He al 0 tudied voice production at the hampagne chool
of Mu ic in Montreal a well a with Dr Puggell and A. Zfira in New
York. At th age of eighteen, Benzion Miller accepted the po ition
of antor at the Hillside Jewi h entre in Hill ide, New Jer ey.
From there he went on t po ition in the ronx, Montreal and
Toronto. At the pre ent time, he i serving a chief antor of
ongregation Beth- I of Boro Park, a po ition that ha been erv d
by the world's most famou cantors including Mordechai
Her hman, Berele Chagy and Mo he Kou evitzky.
Benzion Miller ha performed in conc rt ro great acclaim in the
United tate, anada, I rael and Europ . He i ne of the foremo t
interpreter of Hebrew Liturgical Mu ic and i equally at hom in
operatic reperroire and Yiddi h Folk Mu ic.
The London Synagogue Singers Thi new group is drawn from ome of the fine t ynagogue inger
in London. They have come together specially for thi concert and
will be making some recording for the Milken Archive of Ameri an
Jewi h mu ic.
Neil Levin, conductor Neil Levin i a profe or of mu ic at the J wi h heological
eminary of America in New York, n who e faculty he ha erved
ince 1982. He i al 0 irector of the Mi lken amily Foundation
Archive of American Jewi h Mu ic, and irector f the
International entre and Archive for Jewi h Mu ic. He i regarded
a the leading authority on the hi tory of European Jewi h mu ic.
He i the author of numerou article and rw acclaimed book
on Jewi h mu ic, and i editor of the pre tigiou ch larly journal,
Mttsicajttdaica. He i currently completing a book on Jewi h mu i
cal-hi torical ource (jointly with Edwin erou i of Bar-I1an
Univer icy) a well a a comprehen ive tudy of erman-Jewi h
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mu ical tradition; and he i w rking n a critical dition of the first
known ynagogue horal mu ic of the modern era, the work of
alomon ulzer, the 'father of cantorial mu ic'.
Th recipient of undergraduate degree from both olumbia
Univer icy and the Jui ll iard h I, and a Ma ter egre from
olumbia, he hold a Ph in Jewi h mu ical hi tory. He initially
tudied piano and conducting with the legendary Rudolph anz,
followed by xten ive tudie with Adele Marcu, tto Luening,
Jack Bee on, Mario avidov ky and Jacque -Loui Monod. He lec
ture ~idely in America and urope on a variecy of Jewi h mu ical
topics and frequently serve a scholar-in-residence at ynag gue
and other institution .
Neil L vin devised and onducted the oratorio Vanished Voices which wa pre ented at the Barbican entre, London, a part of the
8th L ndon International Jewi h Mu ic Fe tival.
Daniel Gildar, piano Daniel ildar i a cantor in Philadelphia. He i recogi d a ne of
th for mo t cantorial accompan i t and teacher and he ha per
formed with many of the world's finest inger. He wa one of the
fir t foreigner to go to the form r oviet Union untri to a i t
Jewi h communitie ther by providing cantorial training.
Wednesday 11 November, 7.30pm St John's, Smith Square
Dutch Composers Banned by the Nazis Works by five Dutch Jewish composers, victims of the Second World War, and a homage by Jeff Hamburg Leo Smit Ensemble: Eleonore Pameijer, flute Doris Hochscheid, ce llo Frans van Ruth, piano Lex van Delden Jr., reader Thi event i a 0 iated with the exhibition at the R yal A ademy f
Art f the pa inting f harl tee al m n, whi h have come to
L ndon fr m the Jewi h Hi torical Mu eum in Am terdam. F r
oth r event a ociated with thi exhibition, ( ee 7, 11 and 16 N vember)
Presented in association with the entre for Dtttch and Flemish
ttlture. ttpported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy and City of
Westminster. .pecial thanks to Ms Hilde jansen, ottnsellor for Press and ttltttral Affairs of the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Mrs Jrma horkend de Miranda, Professor Reinier alverda, (University ollege
London) and Mr Frits Niessen (. tichting ns Erfdeel).
Thinking of Holland Hendrik Mar man (189 - 1 40) cran lacion: Jam Bro kway read ing
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Trois Morceaux (Three Pieces, 1939) Ro y Wi rtheim (1888-1949) i) Cortege des Marionettes ii) Pastorale iii) apncclo flute and piano
You left the house one morning in the spring Jacque Pre er (1899-1970) tran lation: Jam . H Ime reading
Hommage a Sherlock Holmes (J928) Le mit (1900- 1943)
Sonatina (J935) Nic Ri ht r (1915-1945) piano so lo
The song of the eighteen dead Jan ampere (1902- 1943) tran I.ation: Jam s . Holm read ing
Sonata, opus 63 (J958) Lex van eld n (1919-1988) i) Allegro it} Lento iii) Allegro quasi presto ce llo so lo
Interval
March of the dead lara ggink (1 06- 19 1)
tran lati n: . N. MacInn read ing
Nuit Ca/me (Calm Night, 1926) H nri "tt Bo man (1895- 1 52)
ce llo and piano
from: Letters from Westerbork try H ille urn (1 14- 1 43)
tran lation: Am Id J. Pomeran reading
onata (J 943) mit (190 - 1 4 )
i) Allegro
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ii) Lento iii) Allegro moderato flute and piano
Natzweiler Rutger Kopland (b. 1934) tran lation: Jame Brockway reading
Yam Lid (J998) Jeff Hamburg (b. 1956) flute, cello and piano
The Performers
Leo Smit Ensemble In 1995, on the fiftieth anniver ary of the Liberation, the Jewish
Hi torical Mu eum in Amsterdam a ked Eleo(lore Pameijer and
Fran van Ruth to devise ome concert programme for the celebra
tion . This initiative al 0 led to th production of the C Modern Times (with works by Leo mit, Ro y Wertheim and Ignace Lilien)
and the founding, together with compo er JeffHamburg, of the Leo
mit Foundation. T hi Foundation now has it own concert erie
in the U ilenburg ynagogue in Amsterdam, which mainly feature
mu ic from between the war and contemporary mu ic. All the con
certs are broadca t by utch radio.
The Composers
Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952) Henriett B man wa the daughter of Henri Bo man, principal
cell i t of the onc rtgebouw rche tra, and the Jewi h piani t ara
Benedict, piano teacher at the Am terdam on ervatory. As a
piani t, Henriette Bo man gave the fir t performance in Holland of
the hamber oncerto for piano, violin and thirteen wind in tru
ment by Alban Berg. Being half-Jewish, she wasn't allowed to per
form after 1942 and had to turn to the network of private concert.
Nuit Calme i one of the la t works from her fir t period of com
po ing. It i dedicated to the famous utch-French celli t erard
ekking. Fr m 1927 t 1930 Henriett Bo man tudied with
Will m Pijper, which re ult d in a om what more compact, but till
very per onal mu i al language. A large part of her output con i t
f the ong he wrote for the French ing r Noemi Perugia, with
whom he had a 10 e profe ional and per onal relation hip.
Rosy Wertheim (1888-1949) R yWertheim wa born into a well-known family f banker in
Am terdam. After high ch I, her parent ent her to a boarding
cho I at Neuilly and, in pired by the exc lIent piano le on he gOt
there, he decided t become a piani t. After her return t Holland,
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he rook harmony and counterpoint le on with Bernard Zweers
and em re den. In the rwentie , driven by her ocial awaren
he led children's choir which con i ted of 'the wor t litd tramp '
of Am terdam.
As th mu ic of ebu y, Ravel and travin ky grew more impor- .
tant ro her, he increa ingly felt that he had to 'cro the border '
and in 1929 she decided ro go ro Pari and tudy ther for ix
month. here, he had contact with Loui Aubert and El a Barraine
and the six month turn ed into ix year.
1935 Ro y Wertheim left for Vienna, 19 6 for N ew York and in
1937 he returned to Am terdam. During the war, he had ro go
into hiding and her compo ing came to an end. hordy after the
Liberation she fell ill and in 1949 died at Laren. H er earli t works
are written in a romantic idiom a la e ar Franck, but in the thirti
he developed a ober, modern language of which Three Pieces from
1939, are the be t example .
leo Smit (19°0-1943) Le mit wa al 0 a rudent f Bernard Zweer and em re den. In
1923 he wa the fir t compo ition tudent at the Am terdam
on ervatory to graduate cum laude. oon after that, in 1925, hi
corn po mon ifhottetten wa performed by the oncertgebouw
rche tra. T he critic who appeared puzzled by the 'u of trange
combination of ound from the N egro-like jazzband', on ider d
him one of the 'ultra-modern ' (who e figurehead wa travin ky) and a ked for 'more whole me work'.
In 1927 Leo mit left for Pari , wher one 'could perceive the
pre ence in the city f people like Ravel, Rou el, hmitt and
travin ky.' In the middle of the thirtie he developed a ompletely
per onal language which combine Iyrici m and piriruali ty, impul
ivene and intellect.
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In 1937 Leo mit returned ro Am terdam. T here, he c mpo ed
among ther hi Trio ~ r clarinet, viola and piano and hi
ivertimento for piano duet.
he Flute onata i hi la t compo ition . T he fir t movement wa
completed in ecember 19 9, t e third in June 194 1. he econd
m vement, one of the mo t beautiful contribution ro the ut h
flu te repertoir , bea r the date 12 February 194. n 27 April 19
Le mit wa deported ro obibor, where he wa murdered n 30
April.
Nico' Richter (1915- 1945) Nic Richter howed great talent a a compo er at an early age. In
1935, at an international competition in Bru el he won the H enri
L b eufPrize with a ncertin for larinet, Fren h horn, trumpet,
piano and rw violin . Furtherm re h tudied conducting with the
great H rmann cherchen. a conducror he I d among ther a
student orche tra. T hi enabled him t commi i n compo ition ,
for in tance from hi fri end Alexander Zwaap, wh after the war wa
known a Lex van elden.
In 1942 Nico Richter wa arre ted. In 1945 he r turn d from
achau, verely weak ned. Before he died ome month later from
exhau tion, he found the trength t compl te the fir t and fi fth
mov ment of a renade ~ r flute, violin and viola. T he Piano
onatina, a perfect exampl of Ri hter' aphori tic tyle f omp -
ing, date from 19 5 and wa ~ und in 1988 by Lex van elden Jr.
among t hi fath r' effect .
l ex van Delden (1919-1988) L x van elden wa born under the name f Alexander Zwaap. e
tudied pian and medi ine but had ro give up the latter during the
war be u e he wa Jewi h. Both hi parent were murdered in
obibor on 2 July 194 , a little m re than rw m nth after eo
mit. Alexander him elf wa active in the Re i tance m vement. T he
name Lex van elden, whi h wa derived from hi hiding-name,
wa officially recogni ed in 195 . hat way he alway arried the war
and the 10 fhi parent and f hi be t friend, Nic Ri lu er, in hi
identity. H enriette Bo man , whom h rega rded a a e nd m th
er, had al 0 died by then. T heir friend hip dat from h rtly after
the end f the war, when he phoned him ro ongratu late him n hi
opu 1, L'amour, whi h had been prem iered in 1940 by Nic
Richter. After the war, Van elden be ame ne of the mo t influen
tial per onaliti in the ut h mu i al w rld: n t nly a a ompos
er, bur al a a writer n mu I and a hairman f everal organi-
ation .
he ello mpo ed in 1958 and dedi at-
ed t the wife elli t T ib r de M achll la. It wa a h w-
piece f tefan AlIber, elli t f the fa m u K li h lIartet.
Jeff Hamburg (b. 1956) JeffHamburg wa born in Phi ladelphia. In 1978 he ame t urope.
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e ended up in Am terdam and tudied compo ition at The
Hague' Royal on ervat ry with Loui Andrie en. on equently
the pie e he wrot during thi period in general hav a conceptual
hara ter. In the ninetie Hamburg' Jewi h identity became an
e sential impul e in hi ompo ing, which I ads ro a per onal mu i
al language in whi h e pecially the melodic elem nt b gan to play
a mu h more important role. xample of thi are the hamber
pera Esther and th uite from Joshe KaLb, the la t part of which
lead t the central c mpo iti n f thi period: Zey ... (1994) for
prano and rche tra. F r thi concert, material from the third
movement of Zey ... , 'Yam-Lid', ha been arranged for flute, c 110 and piano.
© Fran van Ruth (tran lati n: ori H ch cheid)
The Performers
Eleonore Pameijer, flute leonore Pameijer tudi d with Koo Verheul at th weelinck
on ervatory Am terdam, and graduated cum laude. he al 0 tud
i d with ue Ann Kahn (Verm nt, U A) and ev rino azzeloni
( iena Italy).
In 1984 he gave her debut re ital at th ncertgeb uw and he
wa a prize-winner in the Frank Martin ompetition. As a oloi t,
he ha performed with many conductor including Luca Vi,
avid Porcelijn , ev Markiz, Ingo Metzmacher and me t Bour.
h ha participated in pe ial production in the Holland Fe tival
and other fe tival in urope and the U A. he ha given first per-
forman f many work written 6 r her and ha made numer u
radio, televi i n, P and re rding.
Doris Hochscheid, ce llo tudied with mitrij er chtman at the
n ervatory Am terdam, where h al took le on
with Mel i a Phelp. he graduated with di tinction and currently
tudie with Phi li ppe Muller (Pari ). In 1996 and 1997 he to k part
in the Tanglewo d e tival, where each time he wa awarded the
Prize 6 r an ut tanding eUi t. ori H ch cheid ha performed
a a loi t with, am ng ther Lev Marlciz, and w rked with com
p er u h a to khau en (world premi re rchester-FinaListen, H lIand Fe tival1996), Kagel and ubaidulina. he ha made radio
and televi ion re ording and i repre nted n the Modern Times and n a f hamber mu ic by Jeff Hamburg.
he regularly play chamber mu ic in variou larger en emble . Fran
van Ruth has made many radio and televi ion recording and ha
contributed t many LP and D recording with mu ic by utch
composer from the pre ent and the pa t. He i head of the hamber
Mu ic epartment of the Am terdam on ervatory.
lex van Delden Jr., reader Lex van elden Jr. wa born in Am terdam, the elde t on of actr
Jetty van ijk and compo er ex van elden. After training at th
Am terdam rama chool, he made hi debut at Am terdam' for -
mo t th atre in Brian Friel' Philadelphia, Here I Come. As well a
acting, he ha al 0 provided the mu ic for hakespeare' Romeo and JuLiet and trindberg' Dance of Death. Hi breakthrough came a
one of the leading character in the pre tigiou Dutch televi ion
erie , The maLL ouLs. n the trength of chi he wa ffi r d I ad
ing part in other major television productions and film ,a w 11 as
on stage in plays such as The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Circle. ince he cam to reat Britain in 1980, he has appeared on televi
ion in Coronation treet, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Lovejoy, The Chief and The Ruth RendeLL Mysteries. Lex i al 0 a inger and has taken
principal t nor role in, among other, Eugene One gin, IL Ritorno d'ULisse and Die FLedermaus.
Thursday 12 November, 7.30pm Union Chapel, Islington
Vv'
r/ Frans van Ruth, piano ggt>
ran van Ruth tudied with
hlh rn at the Utre ht
an ieck and later with Herman
ry, where he al had chamber
ren graduating with di tin ti n. uring
the fifth ug 'WI If mpetiti n he wa awarded a pecial ong
A mpani t Prize. le ha played an impre ive number f duo
pie e in numerou untrie and in Japan. Be ide thi,
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Pop-Goes-the-Klezmer (1) Alexandra Valavelsky and The Bashava Band Alexandra Valavelsky, soprano
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George Weigand, cimbalom, balala ika, oud
Simon C. Russell, double bass, guitar
Edward Hession, accordion
Sharon Undo, violin, guitar, recorder
Tonight' concert pre ent Hungarian, Poli h, Romanian and .
Yiddish folk mu ic, theatre ong and in trumental piece from the
ast uropean tradition of the n' neteenth and tw ntieth centurie .
Part of Oris Jazz Festival.
Tshiribiri Bom Traditional A very jolly, up-tempo ong. When I will sing 'Lecha odi' you
will ing 'Lecha odi' and we will all r joice.
Tum-Balalaika Ru ian Traditional 'Maiden, can you tell me what can grow without rain, what can
burn forever and what can cry without tear ?" illy lad! A tOne
can grow without rain, love can burn forever and a heart can cry
without tear .'
Papirosn (Cigarettes) Herman Yablikoff, Nokhem ternheim A young man stand in a little treet, there i no wall to protect
him from the gu hing rain. H i hungry and wet and beg people
to buy hi Papiro n. But no one buy - he will have to tay hungry.
Di Grine Kuzine (The green Cousin) Abe chwartz A pretty cou in came to me. Her che k were like red orange and
her feet begging for a dance. Thi i how my cou in looked when
he wa till 'green' . I went to my next door neighb ur to get a j b
for her. Prai ed be the golden land! Many year hav ince pa ed
and my cou in became 0 worn out by h r job that below her
pretty blue eye she now ha black hadow. When I meet her now
and a k her how he i all he replie i: 'May th blaz take
olumbu ' land!'
Stdjerek Poli h traditional It i a traditional dance in triple time with a characteri tic Poli h
rhythm.
Polka Poli h traditional
he Polka i a traditional dance in 2/4 from the Lancut area of
Poland. In thi di trict it wa the Jewi h mu ician wh intr duced
the cimbalom into folk mu ic.
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Lakodalmas (Wedding Dance) Jano Lavotta
hi piece inc rporate ome of the mo t popular Hungarian tune
of the early nineteenth century.
Meine Lippen sie kiissen so heifl (My lips kiss so passionately) from Giuditta by Franz ehar '1 d not know why everyb dy peaks f love the moment they ee
me? It mu t be becau e f my lip ki ing 0 pa ionately and the
eleganc with which my 6 t carry me actO the dance floor.'
Egri Csardds Hungarian raditi nal
he arda i the mo t famou Hungarian national dance. It
comprise I w (La u) and fa t (Fri ction and derive from
arda', m aning an inn or tavern.
Vilja from the Merry Widow by ranz L har The ever popular Vilja from the Merry Widow i ung by the
young wid w Hanna who ha invited her gue t t a lavi h ele
bration at her palace.
Accordion solo
Avreml der Marvikher (Avrem4 the pickpocket), Mord chai ebirtig 'I had to gr w up in the dirty treet, far away from my mother'
gaze-and I became a pickp cket. I am Avreml, the be t pick-
pocket ar und, I teal with great kill but nly fr m the ri h.
There i only ne thing whi h I hope for; letter of gold on my
grave tOne: ''Avreml w uld have been a g d man, with a tru
heart, had he gr wn up und r a m ther' care and a father' guidance.»'
Dona, Dona holom cunda
'In a wagon li a calf, it i tied with a tOpe. High in the kie a
wallow flie. he wind laugh in the ornfield, laughs and laugh
and laugh . It laugh a wh le day and half the night. na, na,
ona ... T he alf rie and the farmer ay : Wh t Id you to be a
alP. Y; u c uld have been a bird, you uld have been a wall w.
P r alve are bound and dragged and laughtered. Wh ever ha
wing flie high and i no ne' lave.'
Zog nit Keyn Mol (Never say you are going on your last journey)
lik, P kra The ymn f the Parti an . Ad pted a the anthem of the United
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Parti an rgani ati n in 1943, this song spread all through the
camp of a tern -urop . N ever ay you are going on your la t
journey, though lead filled kie ab ve you blot out the blue of day.
The hour which we long for will come and then the earth hall
tremble beneath ur tread. Now we are here!
Interval
Hore ich Zigeunergeigen (When I hear the Gypsy violins)
mm rich Kalman hi aria fr m Countess Maritza i probably the mo t 'Hungarian'
of all of hi operetta. H e included many folk melodie which he
tran ~ rmed into aria in a mo t effective way. In thi aria,
ounte M aritza i prai ing the spirit of yp y mu ic and a life
wher one can fulfil all romantic de ire .
Gypsy Instrumental Music Traditi nal A el ction of traditi nal a tern uropean pi ce typical of th
repertoire of yp y bands con luding with the very famous piece
Ten Pairs of Kisses u ed by Brahm a one of hi Hungarian dances.
lonel lonelule Oohnny, Johnny} R manian traditional J hnny ha drowned hi hea rt-ache and i being t Id off by a
young girl fi r drinking t much. 'Why do y u mourn ~ r Maria
when y u an have pretty me?'
Main htetele Belz (My dear city Belz) Alexand r 1 han tzky 'My dear ity n Iz where I grew up and where, p verty tricken,
we laughed with all the hildren. h, my dare t B Iz, where I had
uch w nderful dream .'
Oyfn Pripetshik 0t the Fireplace} Mark War haw ky A Rame burn in the fireplace a the Rabbi tea he little hildren
the alefbeyz (the alphabet) : 'Remember dear children what y u are
learning here. Repeat it again and again: komet -alef i pr n unced
, ' . When YOll will gr wider you will under tand that thi
alphabet ntain the tear and the weeping f our people. When
YOll gr w weary and burdened with exil ,y u will find m~ rt
and trength within thi Jewi h alphabet.'
Hakotel (The Temple) ubi Z I.t r hi ong wa written after the ix-day War in J rael. It de cribe
h w ay ung girl , a para huti t and a w man in m urning are
ea h ming t the wailing wall ro expre their rr w and their
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grief about the people they have 10 t during the war. T he chorus
goes a follow : H akotel i covered in mo and with sadne , it is
all lead and blood. T here are people with the heart of a srone,
there are tones with the heart of man.
Nifiy's Freylekhs Naftule Brandwine
Sirba Traditional
irba' dance are tylistical ly imilar ro Bulgars and Freylekhs. hi
cia ic i ni cknam ed ' he Bumblebee' because of it rapidly mov
ing melodic line and i definitely a roe- tapper!
Der Rebe Elimeylekh (The Rabbi Elimeylekh) Moshe Nadir When Rabbi Elimeylekh was merry, he took off his phylacterie ,
put on hi gla ses, and ummon d his two fiddl er . When he grew
merrier, he took off hi robe, donned his cap and ummoned hi
two cymbali (s . And when Rabbi Elimeylekh became cstatic, he
r cited hi abbath prayer and ummoned hi two drummer.
Rumania, Rumania Aar n L b deff
ould be de cribed a a great tandard of the Yiddish tage. Aaron
L bed ff often rewrote it according to audience respon e. h
Rumania, you were once a beautiful country, where it wa a plea
ure t live and where one could get all that the heart de ired:
wine, mamelige (a regional di h) and women.
Jewish and Gypsy Music Nowaday , much of the' yp y' repertoire i con idered , particular
ly by me Hungarian wri ter , to be 'national popular art mu ic' .
wever, the influence of profes ional yp y (Roma) and Jewi h
mu ician , who have fo r centurie nOt only performed thi mu ic
but al in pir d it, cannot be over-empha i ed. Like all traditional
tyle , it wa originally an idiom played by tho e ou ide the realm
f 'p lite' ciety, but which ha now become an in eparable part of
cultural identity, 0 much 0, that what wa once th mu ic of the
underprivileged ha n w b come the main tream tradition f mllch
of a tern ur p . However, Yiddi h ong has to be et in a cia of
it wn. The traditional kill of yp y and Jewi h mu ician were
often called fi r at ocial function , wedding, partie etc. but th cul
tural cr - ver between the e two grou p was not u tained when it
ame to the performance of Yiddi h ong. T here wa a di tinctive
conn cti n between Jewi h languag, ulcur and religion that
thrived fr m the 1880' to the 1930' in Yiddi h theatr and folk
ong.
Yiddi h ~ Ik and popular ong hav alway been a reflection f
the rich tape try of Jewi h li ~ in a lyrical fo rm. hey mirror per-
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sonal daily experiences, they tell u of wars and pogrom, the shted
and the city, family relation hip and celebration of love and more.
The Performers
The Bashava Band Founded in 1995, Alexandra Valavel ky and The Bashava Band
have performed to great acclaim in London and at mu ic festival .
They have broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and on Israel Radio Kol I rael.
Their lively repertoire reflects a variety of musical styles-Ea tern
European, Gypsy music, classical operetta, songs from the Yiddish
theatre, as well as Jewish art and folk song. The e are pre ented
using an extensive array of instrument including accordion, balalai
ka, cimbalom, double bass, guitar, recorder, oud, violin, and voice.
This is a band of tremendous vigour, bringing to life the no talgia
and heartfelt joy of Jewish and yp y music. With toe-tapping
rhythms of the Klezmer spirit to Yiddish song, the virtuosic sounds
of the Gypsy violin and cimbalom the Bashava Band recreate the
spirit of this unique musical heritage.
The first in a series of CD recording Ten Pairs of Kisses, featur
ing Jewish and Gypsy music, was released in May 1998 and i avail
able through Jewish Music Distribution (Tel: 01323 832863).
Alexandra Valavelsky, soprano
Alexandra Valavel ky is ofRus ian-Romanian origin and ha lived in
Britain, ermany, Israel and America. he tudied at the New
England Conservatory of Mu ic in Boston, before attending the
Royal Academy of Mu ic in London where he obtained h r Master
of Music. he has performed as a soloist in Britain, ermany,
reece, Israel and the U A inging early- to clas ical repertoire
including ethnic, folk and contemporary music. In 1997 he wa
awarded an Art ouncil grant to write a multi-media show about
the life and music of Alma Mahler (wife of the compo er u tav
Mahler) which will be premiered on 6 D cember 1998 at the
Pentameter Theatre in London. he i also the founder of a very
uccessful Cabaret group performing song from the Berlin and Pari
Cabaret stage of the 1920' to 1950's.
George Weigand, cimbalom, balalaika
eorge Weigand play a wide variety of stringed in trument includ
ing the lute and other Renai sance and Baroque in trument a well
a Middle Ea tern, East European and American traditional in tru
ments. He perform both 010 and with a number of group includ
ing the Extempore tring n emble, which he al 0 direct. He ha
recorded ex ten ively for ' , radio and tel vi ion in Britain and
abroad. He ha performed with the Royal hake peare ompany,
the Royal National Theatre, the BB and independent televi ion
and film companie , for whom he has al 0 compo ed and arrang d
music. A long standing intere t in a tern uropean yp y mu ic
reinforced by contact, tuition and encouragement from ev ral
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yp y musicians, ha led him to concentrate on the cimbalom, both
the orche tral in trument and the smaller traditional ypsy typ .
Edward Hession, accordion
Edward He ion studied accordion in this country with John Leslie
and ha attended international seminar in Ea tern urope. He tud
ied piano and percu sion at the Royal College of Mu ic in London.
inc I aving there in 1984, he ha had a varied career including
orche tral, opera, theatre and recording work. He currently play
keyboard in the orchestra of Les Miserables and ha also performed
in mu'sic theatre production, which have included works by Kurt
Weill. Edward Hes ion ha worked with eorge Weigand, perform
ing and arranging with various band playing yp y mu ic.
Sharon Undo, violin, guitar, recorder
haron Lindo is a graduate of the uildhall chool of Mu ic and
rama where he studi d violin and early wind instruments. he
now performs and tours internationally with en embles and orche -
tras including The ixteen, Chiaroscuro, Kings Consort and
Collegium Musicum 90, with whom she has made several record
ing . As a specialist in early string and wind instrument she has
played at the hake peare's lobe in London and has al 0 broadca t
for BB Televi ion and Radio 2, 3 and 4, as well as making record
ing with variou early music groups including the Broad ide Band
where she plays together with eorge Weigand.
Simon C. RusseU, double bass, guitar
imon . Ru ell tudied Jazz and contemporary mu ic at the ity
of Leeds ollege of Mu ic and now play with various group
encompas ing a broad range of tyle from free improvi ation to
hard-bop. H come from a family of cla ical mu ician and devel
oped a love for folk tradition whil t at school. Recently relocating to
Brighton, h i currently e tabli hing a venue a a platform for Jazz
and world music. He ha recorded for the Unsophi ticate and the
ave Lazenby uartet.
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Pop-Goes-the-Klezmer (2) Eve's Women: Jewish Jazz and Rap Orit Orbach, clarinet Michal Eizen, piano, keyboard Daphna Sadeh, double bass Yael Cohen, drums and percussion Part of ris Jazz Festival.
upported by Visiting Arts, El Al Israel Airlines and Lero Properties.
The Performers
Orit Orbach, clarinet rit rbach perform regularly as oloi t with major rche tra all
ver the world including the I ra I Philharmonic rche tra con
ducted by Z ubin M ehta, the Bo t n Phi lharmonic rche tra, the
an Franci co infonietta, the Pomeranian Philharmonia (Poland),
the Jeru alem ymphony, the I ra I hamber rch tra and the
aifa ymphony rche tra where h act a principal c1arineri t.
Among rbach' recording are the tw H a idic oncerro:
tarer' Kli Zemer and H ajdu' Truat Melech. rir pern rm both
larinet and ba larinet n the e recordings. rit ha participated
in variou fe tival ar und the world including Marlboro hamber
Fe tival (Vermont), Tanglewo d, N eu tadt ( ermany) a well a
Mu ic by the Red ea in I rael. rit received her Bachelor of Mu ic
at the N ew ngland on ervatory and her M a t r degree from
Northwe tern Univ r ity. rba h ha been a lead ing larineti t in
everal Klezmer band including the Maxwell treet, the H a ha
Mu ha and the Kiev Klezm r group 10 hi ago as well a the
lari ma Klezmer band in I rael.
Michal Eizen, piano, keyboard Mi hal iz n b ga n her pian tudie at the ivatayim
n ervatory and receiv d her Bachelor f Mu ic at the Mu ic
h I in the evin ky ollege (I rael) . Among her jazz teach r in
I rael and abr ad were lava anelin at the Jeru alem Mu ic
A ademy, Pi i her vi rz, ick tove in L An gel e and H erb
P mer y at the Berkeley chool f Mu ic (Bo ton). Michal ha par
ti ipated in many gr up , performing differ nt mu ic tyle :
la ical, ontemporary, Jazz, Ro k and P p.
Am ng rh e gr up are the Roy Krimmin Jazz n emble with
wh m h recorded n r the I raeli N ational Radi at th Kfar Blum
amera Fe tival and the lauti t
p t in, Mu i a N va n emble, the I rael hamber
ani Tamor riginal rock gro llp and many y lIth on
ert and al the vi lini t Yonatan Mi ller and the larineti t rit
rba h. Apart fr m her pern rman e al l over I rael Michal direct
the mu ic department at Kalay h igh school and le ture in varioll
pia
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Daphna Sadeh, double bass Daphna adeh grad uated from the Manhattan chool of mll ic in
New York where he tudied with Homer Men ch, former member
of the New York Philharmonic. In New York she play d wi th many
chamber gr lip , and for ballet and theatre production.
ince he returned to I rael Daphna has been teaching in variou
mll ic chool including the Hed entre for contem porary and Jazz
mu ic and the M u ic and An chool in Tel Aviv. aphna has per
formed with different orche tras including the Israel ymphony
(Ri hon Lezion), the Haifa ymphony the Beer heva info nietta
and the Kibutzim hamber rche tra. he ha participated in Jada
Jazz group I d by Harold Rubin with whom he performed among
other in the internatio nal Jazz F tival by the Red ea. aphna ha
recorded a with the a t We t ethnic group with whom he reg
ularly perform . Lately he ha formed her own ethnic mu ic n m-
ble and intend to record a oon.
Yael Cohen, drums and percussion Yael ohen began piano lesson at age five and witched to drum at
age nine, tudying with Ahron Karn in ky. he is the fir t woman to
serve in th IDF as a drummer in the M ilitary Rock nsemble. Yael
ha participated in many mu ical production with the inger Ilana
Avital, the Mashina rock group and other . Yael perfo rmed with Bela
ona Rhythm and Blue Band for several year which included a
tour of witzerland. Yael was a member of the well known I raeli
rock group called he Wi tche. he reco rded three wi th them
and performed all over I rael, recorded video clip in urope and
participated in many fe tival uch as Arad n tival, in ev Ft tival
and L ve N ight in Tzemach Festival. As a member of thi group Yael
played with the singer Bjork and with I rael i inger Aviv ephen.
Yael tudied mu ic at the Rimon Jazz chool and among her te ch
er wer gon arter and ri Balak.
Sunday 15 November, 7.30pm Union Chapel, Islington
Pop-Goes-the-Klezmer Cl) Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band: Klezmer Dance Klub Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band: Gregori Schechter, clarinet, saxophone, arranger Ronnie Goldberg, guitar Phil Alexander, accord ion, keyboards Pete Townsend, double bass Peter Cater, drums Carole Lateman, dancer Deborah Silver, dancer Part of Oris Jazz Festival.
For tonight' event, rego ri int nd tr ating everyone to a rou ing
klezmer party. With dancer arol teman and eborah ilver to
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lead the way, let your hair down and foil w the beat of the toe-tap
ping rhythm f thi fabuloLl klezmer band.
The Performers
Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band r gori chechter' Klezmer Fe tival Band made it debut in Jun
1991 , underthe au pie of the Bnai Brith Jewi h Mu ic Fe tival and
id Eckman promotion at L ndon' ueen lizabeth all. They
, with audience thrilled by the band' toe
tapping rendition f a tern uropean Jewi h Folk Mu ic. They
perform authentic Ru ian klezmer a well a regori' own compo-
ition . After only a few week of rehear al they appeared n BB
Radio 4' art programme Kaleidoscope. hordy afterward they to k
a tarring role in a BB Televi ion d cumentary n klezmer, along-
ide the mo t famou name in the klezmer world iora Feidman
and Henry apoznik of the U A. F ature article have b en written
about them in the nati nal pre and Folk Roots magazine. The band
ha filled the ueen lizabeth Hall n ub equent 0 a ion , a well
performing at other major concert, fo lk fI tival and private func
tion throughout the UK.
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Monday 16-Friday 20 November, 1.0o-2.00pm School of Oriental and African Studies
A People and its Music Lunchtime video presentations from the documentary series on the Music of the Jewish People Israel Music Heritage Project Or Tzipora H. Jochsburger, creator and executive director Introduced by the director, Asher Tlalim with Alexander Knapp, Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music
Monday 16 November Ashkenaz: The Music of Eastern European Jewry Yiddi h fo il ng, liturgical mu ic of the ynag gue, Klezm r
mel die
Tuesday 17 November Sepharad: Judeo Spanish Music Ladin tune of the Middle Age lullab ie, wedding tune, ng f
m urning
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Wednesday 18 November Teiman:The Music of Yemenite Jewry I rae li inging tar , fra H aza and Achinoam Nini highlight thi
video of inging and rhythm, drumming and dancing
Thursday 19 November Toward Jerusalem T he music of ven communitie : Per ia, India, Iraq, thiopia,
Kurdi tan, eorgia and Tajik tan
Friday 20 November The Music of the Moroccan Jews Tune b rrowed fr m Arab neighbour and given H ebrew texts.
Me ianic tune
Monday 16 November, 7.30pm School of Oriental and African Studies
Documentary Film: Paula Paulinka Christine Fischer-Defoy, Daniela Schmidt, directors Norbert Kleiner, camera Caroline Goldie, sound, editor Produced by Goldie Film und Musik for ZDF/Arte Paula Paulinka i a documentary film ab ut a woman made by three
w men. F r ver a year the filmm aker hri tine Fi cher-. efoy,
ar line Idie and aniela hmidt d cumented the life f the
97-yea r- Id Jewi h inger Paula Lindberg- al mon who ha lived in
lIand in e her e cape fr m N azi ermany in 19 9.
B rn in Frankenthal in th erman Palatinate in 1897, Paula
Lindberg' career a a n ert and ratori inger began in the twen
tie under u h ndu t r a Wilhelm Furtwangler, Bruno Waiter
and ri h K1ciber. Between 19 0 and 19 he ang the sol alto
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parr in performance of the Bach cantatas with the world-fam ous
T homaner hoir in Leipzig, inging there for the la t time in M arch
1933.
he ban on appearing in public forced her into the cultural ghet
to of th Jlidischer Kulturbund Oewi h ul tural A sociation) , et up
by her friend Kurt inger in the ummer of 1933, and it was here
that she found a concert platform a a 0 10 artist until h r flight in
1939.
The march of erman troops into Holland, where he wa living
in exile, de troyed her hope of a planned onward journey to the
U A. T ogether with her hu band, the urg on Albert alomon,
Paula Lindberg- alomon wa interned in We terbork concentration
camp from where, however, both were able to e cape. Until the lib
eration they urvived in hiding in southern Holland.
H ere, in 1945, they learned of the death in Au chwitz of their
daughter harlotte alomon. he had left Berlin in 1939 to live
with her grandparents in the outh of France where he wa round
ed up by the ermans in 1943 and deported to Au chwitz.
For almost fifty yea r Paula Lindberg- alomon could not bring
her elf to return to Berlin. Until the 1980' he taught at the um
mer chool f the alzburg Mozarteum. nly in 1986 did she return
D r the fir t time to the city wher her career had begun-and been
brought 0 quickly to an end.
hri tine i cher- efoy, atoline oldie and ani la chmidt
vi ited the 97 yea r o ld inger Paula Lindberg- alomon in
Am terdam. T hey accompanied her to Berlin where he till give
inging les on to the antor of the J wi h ommunity, La zlo
Pa tor. They vi ited her old mu ic academy, where the Paula
Lindberg- al mon inging ompetition ha b en held ever ince
her ninetieth birthday: and the harlotte alomon Primary chool
in Kreuzberg which wa named after her daughter.
A econd level in the fil m i provided by painting from Life? Or Theatre?by harlorre alomon, which he painted in exile in rance
between 1940 and 1942. In over 1,200 page, it tell the story of the
alomon family in the fo rm of a ' lyrical drama' . T hi i where
harlotte alom n tell u h r ver ion of the to ry of Paula, whom
he tenderly call 'Paulin ka' .
inally, the filmmaker came acro everal old hellac record
fr m the twentie and thi rtie in the collection of enthu ia t and
admirer of thi inger, which give u an idea of Paula Lindberg
alomon' warm contralto voice.
Paula Paulinka trace the li fe hi tory of thi extraordinary arti t.
Ar hive h otage of Berlin in the twentie depicting the work of the
ultural As ciati n of erman Jew, li fe in the 'Jewi h Tran it
amp' at We terbork a well a imag f Berlin , Leipzig and
Am terdam ombine to provide a highly per onal portrait of a
woman wh e life has been influenced by the del ight and the cata -
tr phe f ur entury, without breaking her fa ith in life. he her-
elf put it:' ne mu t alway try to bring out the good in omeone,
and not give the bad a chance at all. '
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Tuesday 17 November, 7.30pm Barbican Centre
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band Usa Rshman, vocals Alex Koffman, violin, vocals Donald Jacobs, clarinet Shelley Yoelin, saxophone, clarinet, flute Ivo Braun, trumpet Audrey Morrison, trombone Gait Mangurten, piano David Rothstein, double bass Steve Hawk, percussion
upported by usan and jeffrey Green.
T he M axwell treet marketplace was to hicag what the L wer
Ea tide was to N ew York. At the turn of the c mury, when th fi r t
major wave of Ru ian Jewi h immigrant etded in America,
hicago' M axwell treet becam e famou for it open-air unday
marketplace r wd d with Jewi h pu hcart-peddl r , an in tituti n
which ha urvived in the hand of fr h wave f immigration until
1995 (when the market wa reI cated). h band wa named in trib
ute t the pirit of hicago' early immigrant .
T he programme will be et cted fro m the following ong:
Ach! Odessa Traditional Ach! Odessa i drawn fr m that ame col urful peri d in de a'
hi rory when the new c ndition of ciali m were infu ed int
the thriving Jewi h world of trade, mu ic and the underw rid .
T hi i Ru ia' an wer t 'hicago, That Toddfin' Town nd New York, New York! , he fi g r 11 in from the river, mi ting it with blue / tanding by
the ea be~ re my eye, my town f de a / You will be greeted by
a ng and depart to a ng. / de a M ama, dear Id t wn f
mi ne! / A h! d a- a pearl upon the ea / ... A h! de a- y u
have kn wn 0 much grief / .. . Ach! de a- not ju t a t wn- a
brid ! / ive on, my de a, live and bl om anew.'
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Der Heyser Bulgar (fin American in Kiev) Naftul Brandwine (1889- 1963) Naftule Brandwine emigrated in 1919 from Hungary to New
York. Der Heyser Bulgar induce frantic energy and acrobatics from
the larinetist.
And the Angels Sing Thi Benny oodman rchestra wing hit incorporate a melody
known a Der htiller Bulgar (The Quiet Dance) from the klezmer
repertoire. Ziggy Ellman take the ong back to its origin with a
kl zmer trumpet break on the original recording.
Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn (Means That You're Grand) ammy Kahn
The only Yiddish ong that made it to the top of the chart 111
America wa a jazzy version of a Yiddi h song ung in English by
the Andr w ister in the 1940'. ur medley include the 1920'
hit Yossel, Yossel Uoseph, Joseph, when will YOtt marry me?), and fin
ishes with a rousing sherele, or Russian scis ors dance.
Bride and Grooms Dance (Chusn-Kalleh Mazl Tov) After the ceremony, the bride and groom are encircled by guests
who cry mazel tov (congratulation and good luck) to th m and to
their parent, the mechutonim. 'Klezmorim, get the p ople danc
ing!'
The Mother-in-Law (Mechuteyneste Mayne) hi traditional Yiddi h folk song how how the easoned mother
handle her future in-law, protecting h r daughter' intere t and
giving a warning at the ame time. 'My dear new in-law! I give my
daughter away to be your daughter in law-d nothing to hame
her. Take care not to wake her early in the morning, and if you
hould notice th malle t flaw in my daughter' character, ju t
c ver it up a if you were her own mother. If you ee that your on
adore my daughter, d n't be j alou ! My child come to you with
her head covered ( howing re pect, and well br ught up). But if
you h uld turn ut t b a na ty, verb aring Id mother-in
law-ah, then you'll di cov r that my daughter i al 0 quite a gem
(i.e., You've met your match)! Mazl tv-congratulation !'
Compote Arr. Alex K ffman Alex K ffman arranged thi tream- f-con ciou ne comp te of
cla i al theme tewed together with klezm r, Ru ian, H ebrew
and American pi e. ake a pin h fT haikov ky, ho tak vich,
er hwin and Beeth ven; add m re than a da h ofYiddi h
hum ur, and- b n app tit!
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Crimean Sketches Melodies combining Jewi h and Turkish motifs whirl around in
this classically inspired piece, traditionally played by a Ru ian bal
alaika orchestra.
Dancing With the Rabbi in Palestine (Baym Rebn In Palestina) The clarinet i featured in this rollicking medley of two dances, a
Romanian hora and a freylechs, or 'lively dance' . The original
recording, made in Philadelphia in the 1920' by clarinetist Itzikl
Kramtweiss, is imbued with a fervour that borders on drunken joy.
Dark Eyes (Ochi Chorniye) 'You dark-eyed gypsy / how I love you / how I fear you! / Oh,
wretched was I the night we med '
A tormy Russian ballad about the lure of the gypsies.
Doina / A Chassidic Dance / The Lark A medley of a Romanian-Jewish lament, a Chassidic men's dance
and a gyp y piece commonly known as The Lark by Dinicu.
DonaDona Word by Aaron Zeidin, music by holom ecunda Publi hed in 1943, this dark ballad describe an animal bound for
slaughter a a metaphor for the suffering of Jewish victims.
'Bound with a rope / the calf lies in a wagon. / Above him, a swal
low oars joyfully. / he calf cries and the farmer colds: / Who
told you to be a calf? / You could have been a wallow. / But calves
are bound and slaughtered / while he who has wings flies aloft and
i slave to none.'
Ocho Kandelikas (Eight Little Candles) A lovely Hanukkah ong, thi gem from the repertoire of Bosnian
ongwriter Flory Jagoda. The language, Ladino, is the mother
tongue of th ephardic ( pan ish) Jew, who populated the hore
of the Mediterranean until their world was de troyed in the
econd World War.
'Lovely Hanukkah has come, bringing eight candle for me. /
Many partie I will have with mirth and pi asure. / Little cakes I
will bake / with almonds and honey.'
The Galitzianer versus the Litvak (Galitzianer Tanz) he traditional rivalry of the Galitzianer (Poli h) ver u Litvaks
( ithuanian) J w i portrayed mu ically in the rivalry of the two
tar in trument of the k1ezmer band, the clarinet versu the violin.
Lshmoa (Hear Our Voice) he High Holy ay of the Jew are u hered in by the ervice
called lichot, or 'forgivene ' . Winding through thi rvice i the
melody that h Hey Yoelin pre ents as an original compo ition,
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expressing the impa ioned plea through blue and Latin rhythm .
Kolom eikes A traditional Ukrainian dance favoured by the Jew, thi arrange
ment by Alex Koffman i for a cia ical quartet.
Leah's Saraband Alex Koffman composed thi wedding proce ional in the klezmer
style for leader Lori (Leah) Lippitz' wedding in 1996. he rhythm
of the clas ic araband blend with Middle astern rhythm and
the mournful violin in thi dreamy compo ition.
Lovely as the Moon (Sheyn Vi Di Levone) A Yiddi h Rumba by popular 1940' poet, haim Tauber:
'Beautiful like the moon ... / bright a the tar ... / from heaven, a
gift has been sent to me. / My luck wa uncovered when you I di -
covered ... / hining like a thou and un / you have enthralled my
heart.'
Mazel Tov Dances A medley of dance played by klezmorim Qewi h mu ician ) at
wedding played in a stylised 1940's etting by the Mickey Katz
rch tra.
Medley from the Movies of Mollie Picon our song from Mollie Picon's 1930' movie repertoire: From Yidl
Mitn Fidl (Yidl With His Fiddle), the title ong, the love ong Oy Mame, Bin lch Farleibt (Oy Mame, Am I In Love!) and hpil Di Fidl, hpil (Play You Fiddle, Play). rom the movie Mamale (Little Mother), Abi Gezunt (You hould Only Be Healthy!)
New York Serba (Serba Din New York) ne of the popular dance of nineteenth entury Ea tern urope,
the erba probably originated in erbia (or wa a dance in the
erbian tyle). hi ver ion i tran cribed from arc rding by an
early American klezmer band known a rche tra R manea ca
(1917) and arranged by Alex Koffman evoking a piccur f immi
grant New York at the turn of the century.
Play, Balalaika (Tumbalalaika) A Yiddish riddle ong.
'Maiden, I ask you: / What can grow (exi t) without rain? / What
can burn and never burn up? / What can cry without tear? he
an wer : / illy b y, why d y u a k? / nly a tone exi with ut
rain. / Love burn and never burn up ... / and a heart an cry
without tear. trum, balalaika, play balalaika- let' be glad! '
Romania, Romania Aaron Lebed ff Lebedeff' mo t popular ong, Romania, Romania, catal gue the
glorie of Romanian wine, fo d, and w men in an ever-quickening
ucce ion fYiddi h limericks. Lebedeff recorded everal ver i n
of thi ong from 1923 through the 1940' .
'The Rumanian drink wine and eat mamalige (corn meal mu h) /
and he who ki e hi own wife i a bit meshigeh (mad)! / Ay, what
a delight! Better, you can't find! / Ay, no greater joy i there but
Rumanian wine!'
Russian-Jewish Wedding A medley of fOllr freylech (circle dance) popular with J w in the
Ukraine in the 1930' . Ivank i a Ukrainian folk ong, ltzik i a
Yiddi h story about a pennile groom, Na Ribalki i from a
talini t propaganda movi about the new Jewi h Paradi e of
Birobidjan (a wa teland to which entire Jewish htetl were dep rt
d in the 1930' ) and 7:40 refer to th arr ival time of a train t
de sa. W; learned thi medley fr m one of our original Ru ian
band member who u ed to play it late at night at Jewi h wedding
after the informer got drunk and went home.
Papirom (Song of the Cigarette Girl) he de olation of the ir t World War, which I ft th u and f
children rphaned and homele ,i encap ulated in th ong
Papiro en. h child pI ad with pa er -by (who them elve have
no money to pend) to ave her from peri hing on the street lik a
dog.
'Buy, buy my cigarette / I've kept them dry in the driving rain. /
Buy and have pity upon me ... / Hopele ,my crying and my
walking / n one will buy / they laugh and make fun of my mi -
ery.'
Scalerica de Oro (Stairway of Gold) A w dding ong of th pani h Jew ( ephardim) from the IX
tenth century.
, he bride ha n money / we wi h her happine . / The bride ha
no dowry we wi h her luck!'
Street onglLove Song (Gasn NignlKetzele, Feygele) he mournful treet ng i a traditi nal zhok or Romanian hora
in a limping time. The ng i ne f I ve and I nging:
'I w uld eat without a table / leep without a pillow / to be t geth
er with you. / M with ut y u, you without me / w uld be like a
doorknob with ut a do r, / my kitten, little bird f mine!'
Wedding March (Freylechs Fun Der Hupa) A rece i nal or ha idic m n' dan e (chosid~, a played n a
1920' re rding by Kandel' rche era.
Yoshke, Yoshke fo lk ng All around the world, the lu ty camaraderie f drinker i a
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fav urite ong theme. In thi ha idic drinking ong from the
1850's in Rus ia, the Rabbi enjoin hi fo llower to 10 e their care
in revelry. rinking (but not debauchery) wa completely compati
ble with the has idic ecstatic cyle of worship.
'The Rabbi ay that n w we will rejoice / And drink whi ky
in t ad f wine!'
Note by Lori Lippitz, with thank to leano r and Zalman Mlotek'
note in the Workmans Circle songbook series, the New Book of Yiddish ongs, Pearls of Yiddish ong and ongs of Generations.
The Performers
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band The band perform a kaleido cope f col ur and mood in an old
fa hi ned pirit f fun. The combination f in trumental dance
mu ic, fo lk ong, theatre ongs, and jazzy Yiddi h pop mu ic from
th 19 0' to 1950' creat a rich, multi-dimen ional experience of
the 10 t w rld of a tern Eur pean Jewi h culture, combined with
vignette of America a seen through immigrant eye. Audi nce of
all backgr und are delighted by Maxwell treet' high-energy per
formanc glowing with warmth and h umour.
'There wa inging. here wa dancing. There wa clapping,
dancing in the ai le and high energy Yiddi hkeit in rhythmic beat!
... he mu ic i upbeat and the rhythm i fanta tic .. . T hi wa a glo
rioll j umey f Yiddi h heart and pirit ... They'r not ju t mu i-
ian , they're utterly fanta tic entertainer.' (Vi let pevack,
lev land Jewi h New, 1998)
Funded in 198 , th nine-p iece Maxwell treet Klezmer Band
per6 rm n tage acro America and ur pe. The band perform
ann ually in a anukkah n rt featuring Peter Yarrow (of Peter,
Paul and Mary) and Jewi h ngwriter, ebbie Friedman. In
f 19 8 the band per6 rmed at Weill Recita l Hall at
am gie all , and in June at New Yi rk' amro ch Park in the
Lin oln enter. In N vember 1998, the band make a oncert tOur
to Lond n, Munich, Vienna, Am terdam and n chede. Maxwell
tr et mad their televi ion debut n the PB pr gramme "WI rld
tage hicag in 1 95. Maxwell tr et' five r c rding include their
debut , Maxwell treet Days, their next , Maxwell treet Wedding the ur pean re ording Jiddisches Lied and Klezmer and
their m t re ent r c rding You hould Be 0 Lucky! and The Matzorena in 1997.
Usa Fishman, voca ls
Li a graduated fr m American Univer icy in Wa hingtO n, with an
interd i iplinary degree in mll i and theatre. he ha appeared in
everal theatre produ ti n and mu i al. he ha al 0 appeared in
hpil Zhe Mir fl Lidele in Yiddi h, a Yiddi h- ngli h mu ical per-
6 rmed in ermanyand wirzerland. Li a i featLIred n the band'
m t re ent , You hor.dd Be 0 Lucky! and i al featured on A
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Part Of A Chain, a contemporary Jewi h music C for children by
the singer Robbo.
Alex Koffman, violin, arranger
Alex joined the band after his emigration from the former oviet
Union in 1989, and has graduate training in cla sical violin from the
onservatory of Minsk. In 1990, Alex met the Maxwell treet
Klezmer Band and has ub equendy become it violini t and
Mu ical irectOr. Alex i the musical co-d irector of the Annual
Midwe t Klezmer and Yiddish Music In titute.
Donald Jacobs, clarinet
on joined the band in 1983, at the band' inception. He has played
with an a sortment of other folk group , and speciali e in
Bulgarian, Yugo lavian, Macedonian, reek, jazz, meringue and
al a cyles. Don' touring career has included three ani h tours,
the Winnipeg Folk Fe tival (1985 and 1994) and th Philadelphia
Folk Festival (1985). He i the mu ical co-directOr of the Annual
Midwe t Klezmer and Yiddish Music In titute.
Shelley Yoelin, saxophone, clarinet, flute
helley i the irector of Band at Triton ollege in River tOve,
Illinoi . He hold a Bachelor of Music egree from VanderCook
ollege of Mu ic in hicago. He is an instructor with the Jamey
Aeber old ummer Jazz Clinic and with the International
Federation of Jazz in London. He has written arrangement and
played larinet and axophone on three album with Maxwell treet,
and ha r corded mu ic with hi own band, which mixe klezmer
and jazz.
Ivo Braun, trumpet
Born in Pragu , Ivo ha worked with rankie Valli and the our
ea on , Ringli ng Brother Barnum and Bailey ircu, the Jimmy
or ey rche tra, and the Royal rui e Line. He i in training with
the econd icy Improv ompany of hicago and also teache
mu ic appreciatio n at TritOn ollege in River rove, Illinoi .
Audrey Morrison, trombone
A native of New York icy, Audr y began her mu ical training at the
age of nine. After winning the Performer's ertificate for Excellence
at the a tman chool of Mu ic, he has played a principal ttOm
b ne f the 19in ymphony since 1981 and ha made gue t appear
ance with other jazz band acro the U . Audrey ha also play d for
radio and tel vi i n jingl
Gait Mangurten, piano
ail graduat d fr m Indiana Univer icy in BloomingtOn, and ha
played with many n emble including uxedo Jun tion and
ollege of u Page Jazz Band. ail ha played with Maxwell treet
ince 1993 and ha made two recording with the band.
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David Rothstein, bass avid graduated from We te rn M ichigan Univer ity with a degree
in cla ical perfo rmance. H i experience incl ude touring interna
tionally with the lenn Miller rche tra a well a performance
with the Pied Piper , rand Rapid ymphony, and with onald
, onnor trumpet player Jon Fadi . H e ha received an out tand
ing performan ce award fro m Notre ame Jazz Fe tiva l. avid teach
e ba privately and at th Id Town chool of Folk Mu ic.
Steve Hawk, percussion teve ha been the percu ioni t fo r the M axwell treet Klezmer
Band ince 1989. In 1987, teve played percu ion in the ivic
rche tra of hicago and fro m 1988 to 1993 wa the principle tim-
panist. teve ha played under the direction of conducto r uch a
ir eorge olti and aniel Barenboim and wa a timpani t with the
hicago ymphony rche tra in July 1995 at the Ravinia Mu ic
e tival .
lori lippitz, band founder Lori founded th band in 1983. Lori is al 0 the creator of the
Klezmer Music Foundation, Inc. and organi er of the Annual
Midwe t Klezmer and Yiddi h Mu ic In titute. he co-founded the
Yiddi h Arts En emble, and formed and lead the Junior Klezmer
rches tra, a training ground for teen. he wa the antorial oloi t
at the Jewish Recon tructioni t ongregation of Evan ton, wh re
he ha served from 1987 to 1998. (Lori ha not made the trip to
Europe this time a he i about to have a baby).
Wednesday 18 November, 7.30pm St GUes, Cripplegate
Dreyfus: Prisoner of Devil's Island A new music theatre piece in concert Music and lyrics by Bryan Kesselman Cast (in order of appearance) Alan Rice as Emile Zola (the novelist) John McGregor Murray as Major Esterhazy Nicholas Forty as Major Henry Rebecca Decker as Madame Bastian (Charwoman at the German Embassy and French Agent) Bryan Kesselman as Major du Paty de Clam Alan Rice as Genera l Mercier (Min ister of War) John McGregor Murray as General de Bo isdeffre (Ch ief of Staff) Philip Barnett as Captain Alfred Dreyfus Carol-Anne Grainger as Lucie Dreyfus Carl Gombrich as Alphonse Bertillon (Head of the Judicial Identification Department at the Prefecture of Police and se lf-proclaimed handwriting expert) Rebecca Decker as Leon ie (a med ium)
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Philip Barnett as Colonel Picquart Rebecca Decker as Madame Henry Chris Coote, piano Anna Barnett, stage manager John Hill, lighting This production has been sponsored by Pb Associates, organisers of con
ferences and other events (0181 421 1227) and Marketing Image, a creative design consultancy (0181 4265000).
20% of ticket sales will be donated to Amnesty International who are pleased to be associated with this performance.
T he tory i that of the infam u reyfu Affair of th e 1890's, and
ha been re ear hed from contemporary ource.
In 1895, aptain Alfred reyfu , a Jewi h fficer in the French
Army, wa wrongly found guil ty of trea on and enten ed to mili tary
degradation and life impri onm nt on vi!' I land, a ~ rm r leper
colony off the North- a t oa t of uth America. At hi ourt-mar
tial , a ecret do ier wa illegally hown to the judge, but not to the
de~ nee.
hu b gan the reyfu Affair, which eau ed anti- emitic riot
on the treet of Fran ce, the downfall of everal ucce iv Fr nch
overnment , condemnation thr ughout the w rid, and- by it
influence on H erzl- to the development of Z ioni m.
me p ople genuinely believed r yfu to be gui lty, and ju tly
entenced, and there were th to whom inju tice evidently meant
n thing. To av the honour of their Army and it Mini ter f War,
the en ral taff on i tently lied, and creat d forgeri in rder to
keep r yfu a life-long pri n r on evil' I land, although th y
knew him t be innocent.
In 1898, Emi le Zola wr te hi fa mou pen letter t Pre ident
Faure, 'J'accu e ... !' T h r t, a they ay, i hi tory.
Am ng the amazing hara t r who were inv Iv d in the e event
wa Alphon e ertill n, the invent r f Anthr p metry- a very
c mplicated y tern f mea lIrement , u ed (with great ina cura y)
for id nti fying criminal be~ re fingerprinting ame int u e. T he
French pr di paragingly cal led it 'B rti llonage' . H e wa called a a
handwriting expert (which he wa not!) at b th f reyfu ' court
martial , where he wa de cri bed a having u ed 'ab urd and entan
gled argument with olltrageou vo abu lary like a ne roman r'
pell '. How ver, the e argument eem t have been taken mo t
erioll ly by the judge .
T he i ue are inju ti e and anti- emiti m. But prejudi e be it
anti- emiti m, apartheid, or any ther manife tation, i abh rrent t
mo t f u , and it bee me d ubly evi l when mixed up with the judi
cial y tern. T he fa t that prejudice rea red it ugly head in u h an
enlightened untry a France, the land f Liberte, galite,
Fraternire, wa a great hock to the w rid.
he reyfu Affair leave 1I with a obering me age n the ub
ject f human right , which i a relevant t day, a we appr a h the
millennium, a it wa 100 year ag .
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The Performers
Bryan Kesselman, baritone Bryan Ke elman tudied inging and piano at the uildhall chool
of Mu i and rama. Hi comp ition include etting of extract
from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Lass, fir t per
~ rmed in 1998 at the uildford Lewi arroll entenary Fe tival,
h ral mu ic for ynagogue ervice, and mu ic ~ r orp rate
Pre entation recording. urr ntly in preparation (in lIaboration
with Alan Rice) i a two-hand d mu ical play Mr i1bert and ir
Arthur.
Hi many peratic r le include r Bart 10 (The Barber of
eviLle) with pera uropa at the 1996 H lIand Park F tival and
with Mid Wale pera, Figar (The Marriage of Figaro) with 1 om m edian ti, Macheath (The Beggars Opera) with pera We t,
mirn v (The Bear) with Jig aw Mu ic heacre, La Boheme,
Phantom of the 'Pera and the fir t performan e of The Big Issue, b th at the v nt arden Fe tival. Radi w rk in lude Kismetand
The Music Man for BB Radi 2. In 1995 he wa ne f the lit
in BI h' acred ervice ondu ted by Yehudi Menuhin at t Paul'
athedral a p rt of the 7th L ndon Internati nal Bnai rith Jewi h
Mu i Fe tival. He i ne f the oloi t n the Jewi h Mu ic
Heritage Rc ording Viennese IJnagogtte Music in the Age of chubert.
Philip Barnett, baritone Philip Barnett ga ined ea rly experien e in light pera in luding -
01 ne! alverley (Patience), John Wellingt n Well (The orcerer), Maj r eneral tanley (Pirates of Penzance), King ama (Princess Ida), ir J eph Porter (HM. Pinafore), Lord han e!lor (Iolanthe), Ja k Pint (Yeoman of the uard), x (Cox and Box), and Frank
(Die Fledermaus). in e 1964, Philip ha been inv Ived in r ligiou
mu I a hori ter, 01 i tleant rand h irma ter. al devi ed
an enterta inment n ept, uiz abaret, f whi h thirty-one have
been p rformed, ntertaining ver ,000 people and rai ing m re
than £17,000 ~ r harity.
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Chris Coote, piano hri oote tarted playing the piano at the ag of four, and per-
forming from the age of eleven, mainly for old age home and club.
hrough accompanying Harrow ounty chool mu ical produc
tion he tarted an a ociation with Philip Barnett that ha la ted for
over twenty-five years, involving many fundrai ing event for a vari
ety of cau e. He has attended piano ma ter c1asse at Morley
ollege under Martino irimo for many years, and i a regular
church organi t and accompani t.
Nicholas Forty, tenor Born in umberland and educated in Yorkshire, Nichola Forty read
mu ic at Merton ollege, xford before po t-graduate tudie at the
uildhall chool of Mu ic and rama. Recent role have included
the title role in Puccini' Gianni chicchi, Angelocci in Tosca, Ba ilio
in The Barber of eviLle, Marullo in RigoLetto, Bottom in The Fairy Queen, tho in The Coronation of Poppaea, E camillo in armen
and acclaimed performances in the tide role of William Wal to n'
The Bear in Buxton and in Italy.
Carol-Anne Grainger, soprano arol-Anne rainger studied at London and rinity ollege of
Music and whit t at the London ollege wa awarded the Lloyd
Webber performance prize. R cent roles include Zerlina (Don
Giovan n i), Barbarina (Marriage of Figaro) Young ally (Follies), Papag na (Magic FLute) and Amor (Coronation of Poppea). he ha
ung for he Ambro ian inger and the London Voice, and in the
la t year for the touring op ra quartet Not Pavorotti, and the newly
formed en mble Ju t IVas.
John McGregor Murray, tenor John Mc regor Murray wa born in New Zealand and cudied at
the Royal Northern ollege of Mu ic, Manche ter. Recent tag
role include Tom Rakewell in travin ky' The Rakes Progress ( pitalfield ), Rodolft (La Boheme) at the ovent arden Fe tival,
Fau t in Boito' Mefistofele (Wimbledon heaere) , the tide role in
ounod' Faust, Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Minack Th atr ,
ornwall, Almaviva (IL Barbiere di ivigLia) at the heldonian,
xford, on ttavio (Don Giovanni) and the tide role in the fir t
performance of The DeviLs Deputy. Recent concert performance
include Mozart' Minor Ma and Eine Kleine Freimaurer-Kantate for the Barcel na ymphony r he era under Andrew Parrott.
Alan Rice, baritone
Alan Rice joined the ' yly arte pera ompany in 1979, and
played part uch as aptain orcoran and trephon. ince then, he
ha ontinued playing in other ilbert and ullivan pr duction ,
in luding another HM. Pinafore wh re hi aptain orcoran w
likened t Le lie Rands (for tho e of you who r member!). He met
Bryan Kes e1man on a recent production f Phantom of the Opera in
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M anchester, where they ended up playing M . Andre and M . Firmin
together, and ha also had role in the We t nd production of
Chess and outh Pacific.
Thursday 19 November, 7.30pm St Giles, Cripplegate
Salamone Rossi: The Jewish Musician of Mantua Siena Ensemble: Michelene Wandor, recorder Philip Thorby, recorder Jenny Cassidy, voice lisette Wesseling, voice Eligio Quinteiro, chiteronne Supported by tewart and Pearl Cohen
A selection of the ecular trio onata rep rtoire along with some of
the vocal duets, to give a flavour of the vivid and virtuo ic mu ical
talent which was so central to the Mantuan culture of it time. T he
in trumental music include the sparkling variations on uch well
known ground bass theme ,a Ruggiero, Bergamasca and Romanes~a.
alamone Rossi, musician and compo er, lived and worked In
Monteverdi' Mantua at the court of the onzaga in the early eventeenth century. H e wrote in trumental mu ic for the court and
choral music for the synagogue as well a secular madrigal . H e com
posed the first and only collection of polyphonic erring of H ebrew
text (the ongs of olomon) before the nineteenth entury.
Saturday 21 November, 7.30pm liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood
Saleem Abboud Piano and chamber recital The outstanding young Arab-I raeli piani t p rform with friend .
Introduced by am Zebba, director of the ampu rche tra of the
icy of Tel Aviv.
Sunday 22 November, 7.30pm St. John's, Smith Square
Tree of Life Jewish Vocal and Choral Music Raphael Frieder, baritone Vivienne Bellos, soprano Carol Kohn, piano Rodney Mariner, reader The Zemel Choir: Maureen Creese, acting musical director Alyth Choral Society: Vivienne Bellos, musical director
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Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ Robert Max, conductor
upported by City of Westminster and the Croft Court Hotel.
Let's Rejoice A. ArgOY, arr. Yeh zkel Braun The Zemel Choir
Shirushalayim, no. 2, Od Yishama Raymond oldstein The Zemel Choir
HavaNagila raditional
The Zemel Choir
Nitsanei Shalom Yitzhak Nayon, arr. YI hezkel Braun The Zemel Choir
Haleluyah Kobi shrat, tran cri bed by Robert Max The Zemel Choir
Mizmor Shir VeHoda'a (a hymn of praise and thanksgiving) from Libro dei Canti D1sraele (J 890) compi! d and harmoni d by Federico nolo Raphael Frieder, baritone Carol Kohn, piano
ltOs Iz Gevor'n Fun Mayn Shtetele? (What has become of my little town) I ador Lillian, lyric Abraham II tein, mu ic Raphael Frieder, baritone Carol Kohn, piano
Hinakh Yaffa Ra'ayati (You are beautifo4 my beloved) ong of ong
YI didya Admon ( or choy) , mu i Raphael Frieder, baritone Carol Kohn, piano
Yerushalayim Oerusalem} Ayigdor Ham iri, lyri
M he Rapap rt, mu i Raphael Frieder, baritone Carol Kohn, piano
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Three songs from Songs and Processionals for a Jewish Wedding Mario a t Inuovo-Ted co i) eal My Heart
ii) V'erastich (Eternal Love)
iii) imeni Chachosom al Libecho
Vivienne Bellos, soprano Carol Kohn, piano
Aria from Cantata, The Queen of Sheba Mari a telnuovo-1I d co Vivienne Bellos, soprano Carol Kohn, piano
Naomi's Aria from Cantata, Naorni and Ruth Mario a telnuovo-Tede co Vivienne Bellos, soprano Carol Kohn, piano
Interval
Sacred Service for the Sabbath Eve for cantor (baritone), 'reader, mixed voices and organ (European premiere) Mari a te1nuovo- d co Cantor Raphael Frieder, baritone The Zemel Choir Alyth Choral Society Christopher Bowers- Broadbent, organ Robert Max, conductor
Prelude to Ma Tovu organ
Ma Tovu cantor, choir, organ
L'Cho Dodi cantor, choir, organ
Introduction to Tov L'Hodos organ
Tov L'Hodos cantor, choir, organ
Borechu cantor, choir, organ, reader
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Shma Yisroel cantor, choir, organ, reader
Mi Chomocho cantor, choir, organ
Hashkivenu cantor, choir, organ
Recitative: VCne'emar Ki fodo cantor, 'organ
V'shomru cantor, choir, organ
Silent devotion (Amidah) organ
May the words cantor, choir, organ
Kiddush cantor, choir, organ
Let us adore cantor, organ
Va,'a'nachnu choir, organ
On that day organ, choir, reader
Mourner's Kaddish organ, reader
Benediction organ, choir, reader
Adon Olom choir, organ, congregation
Songs Performed by the Zemel Choir he hoir wa ~ rtunate to me t the gr at I raeli compo er Yehezkel
Braun at the 1996 Z imriyah horal F rival and aga in when he vi -
ited Lond n la t year. H e was born in Br lau in 1922 and emigrat-
d t Pale tine in 1924, living on a kibbutz fro m 1940 to 1951. H e
wa a principal figure in the r vival of intere t in Jewi h folk mu i
and thr ugh hi numerou arrangement an fine ompo ition an
perhap be n ider d a the leading I raeli horal compo er. You
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will hear the eloquent implicity that characteri e hi music in the
arrangement of Lets Rejoice, ' ear Friend, our inging come t
invite you, feel it beat, guide your feet. .. ' and the heartfelt Nitsanei Shalom, 'Peace and good will, land, from thee, will yet emerge to
ble s thy days ... All who are weary will find re t, afely returned to
home and land. And tho e in exile, a t or We t, keep them
within thy hand.'
rd,
While in I rael for the Zimriyah Choral e tival, I met Raymond
oldstein, an amazingly versatile mu ician who accompanie the
hoir of the reat ynagogue in Jerusalem. He ha made hundred
of arrangements of liturgical mu ic and accompanie anror all
over the world. The hoir commi sioned Raymond ro write
hirushalayim- ong celebrating Jeru alem for their concert mark
ing Israel' fiftieth anniver ary at the ueen lizab th Hall earlier
thi year. The text of the econd movement read: 'Again may there
be heard in the citie of Judah and in the street of Jeru alem the
voice of gladne ,the voice of the bridegroom and bride.'
While Hava Nagila ranks a the mo t in tandy recogni able cra
ditional Jewish melody, thi Haleluyah has ur ly become omething
of an unofficial anthem for the modern tate of I rael.
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario a telnuovo-Tede co (1895- 1968) wa one of the mo t
imporrant Jewish compo er of our century. Born in Florence, he
achieved early fame a a compo er and piani t in Italy before A ing
ro the U A in 1939. In 1940 he etded in Beverly Hill, alifornia
and ub equenrly taught compo ition at the Lo Angele
Con ervatory from 1946. Hi ong, horrer piano piec and works
for the guitar have found a mea ure of fame throughout the world
bur a he wa such a prolific compo er, many of hi works remain
unpubli hed, unrecorded and almo t inacce sible. Hi many work
on Jewish theme include a etting of the Kol Nidre prayer,
ratorio ba ed on the Books of Ether, Ruth and Jonah and set
ting of several other Hebrew prayers.
The acred ervice wa written in 1943 and dedicated 'ro the
memory of my Mother and of all my dear one who have pas ed
away'. For some rea on ome of the mo t appealing text were not
et at thi time and he compo ed an Addendum in 1950 compri ing
five number: Prelude ro Ma Tovu, Ma Tovu L'Cha Dodi, Hashkivenu and Kiddush. he addendum contain ome of the mo t
attractive mu ic in the ervice.
he text i et for the mo t parr in Ashkenazic Hebrew with very
few number in ngli h. It wa evidently written for liturgical u e a
part of a Con ervative congregation service and ngli h word are
cued in for a Reader. The tyle throughout i harmoniou and mel
low, at once reflective and in piring. he work wa performed in
1975 with anror avid Putterman, rg ni t Neil Robin on and
the combined horu of the Park Av nue ynagogue, the
Manhattan chool f Mu ic and the La uardia ommunity
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ollege. election from the ervice were performed at Temple
haaray Tefilla, NY in 1995 with cantor Bruce Ruben and the
New York oncerr inger.
Thi i the first performance of thi work outsid the U A.
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The Performers
Raphael Frieder, baritone Raphael Frieder wa educated at the Aliyah Mu ic Teacher olleg
and he Rubin Academy of Mu i in el Aviv, where he studied
conducting and voic. ollowing his graduation, h mov d ro
London and continued hi tudie. He made hi operatic debut with
th New I raeli pera inging the rol of Trinity Mo e in Kurr
Weill' Mahagonny. He returned to the New I raeli pera ro per
form many major barirone rol . He ha ung with all f I rael'
major orche tra .
Raphael Frieder ha given numerou concerr and r cital , in
England and urope with a diver e reperroire embracing ten lan
guag . He wa personally elected by Leonard Bern tein t perform
the world premiere of one of hi la t works, Arias and Barcaroles. th r concerr and opera ngagements have taken him to th
onc rrgebouw, Am terdam, Nocre am athedral, Pari, the
TeI Aviv Mu eum oncerr Hall th Folk Theatre in Vi nna, a wel l
a ther citi in Europe, cand inavia and North Ameri a. He ha
al 0 p rformed leading role in mu ical uch a Oklahoma, west ide tory, and Fiddler on The Roof
He i al 0 a di tingui hed antor and performer ofJ wi h mu ic.
He erved at the Hamp tead arden uburb ynagogue in L ndon
and now erve at mple I rael of reat Neck, New York. He ha
given anrorial c ncerr throughout I rael, ur pe and the U ,per
Ft rming b th the a t rn uropean a well a contemporary J wi h
mu ic. Raphael Frieder ha made numer u recording Ft r the I raeli
Nati nal Radi and ha been featured in ev ral t levi ion program
in I rael and the U A.
Vivienne Bellos, soprano Vivienne Bello i be t known Ft r her work in Jewi h Mu ic, b th a
the irecror of Mu ic at the Norrh We tern ReFt rm ynag gue and
a Mu ic n ultant ro the ReFt rm ynagogue f reat Britain.
he i a c n ultant for the Jewi h Mu ic Heritage Tnt t and a fo und
ing organi er of the Briti h ociety Ft r Practiti ner fJewi h Mu ic.
A graduate of th Royal Academy of Mu ic, he pur ued a areer in
opera and recital work before peciali ing in Jewi h M u ic. he ha
performed at al l the main L nd n concerr venue . he wa the
oprano loi t in the fir t perFt rmance in thi c unrry f Max
Bruch' orarorio Moses at the ueen lizabeth Hal l, loi t in The oice of Jewish Russia at the R yal Fe tival Hall and al in Haydn'
Creation at t Martin in the Fi Id. he wa invit d a a re ita li t t
take part in the International Mu i Fe tival f Jewi h Mu i in
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Vilniu , Lithuani a and in 1997 she performed in a lieder p ro
gramme a pare f The voice of Ashkenaz conference in N ew York.
Vivienne Bello train everal choir including the Alyth horal
ociery and the Jewi h H eri tage Youth hoir.
Rodney Mariner, reader Rabbi Rodney M ariner wa born in 1941 in Melbourne, Au tralia.
After graduating he became a econdary school teacher b fore tak
ing up a Rabbinic cholar hip. H studied in Jeru a1em at the
H ebr w Union olleg , then proceed d t Leo Ba ck ollege,
London, fr m where he received his micha in M ay 1976.
Rabbi M ariner erved a a i tant Rabbi and Youth Worker at
North We tern Reform ynagogue, then as a ociate Rabbi at
dgware and i trict Reform ynagogue. In M arch 1982, he
b came Rabbi of the Bel iz quare ynag gue.
In April 1989, Rabbi M ariner ucc eded Rabbi Lionel Blue a
onvener of the Beth in of the Reform ynagogue f reat
Britain, a po t he continues to hold in addition ro hi congregation
al durie .
The Zemel Choir T he Zemel h ir njoy int rnational respect a a fin e mixed voice
Jewi h ch ir. tablished by udley ohen in 1955, they perform a
wide ranging reperroir of Jewi h art mu ic from ephardi ,
A hkenazi and Yiddi h ource in maj r c ncere venue throughout
the UK and abroad, a well a 6 r important Jewi h ev nts and har
itable au e . T he Zemel hoir ha travelled to anada, the U A,
a tern and We tern urope. In 1993 the hoir participated in the
P li h H I cau t M emorial ceremonie in War aw and Treblinka t
ommemorate the fifti eth anniv r ary of the War aw hetro
Upri ing. At the 1996 Z imriyah horal Fe tival in Jeru a1em they
were invited to ing in the pening oncert recorded live n I raeli
radi .
pecial event hav in luded a performance in We tmin t r
Abbey at the 1994 omm nwealth ay b ervance in the pre ence
f M he ueen and HRH he Prin e f Wale. oncere and
r cording have omm morated anniver aries of luminarie in
Jewi h liturgi a1 and art mu i uch a ulzer, Lewandow ki and the
Briti h mp er amuel Alman. h y have made numer u televi
n and radi br ad a t.
A number f ex iting project hav ari en through the hoir'
participati n in T h nd n International Bnai Brith Jewish Mu ic
Fe tival : In 1986 they ro k part in the w rid pr mi re performance
f Kaddish for Terezin by R nald enat r in anterbury athedral
which wa br adca t live n radio and rep reed on televi ion . In
19 7 they tarred in the BB on ert rche tra c ncert and broad-
a t, Music of a People devi d and conduct d by tanl ey Black. In
1990 the li rd ' wer mmem ration in Yi rk included a per-
6 rm an e of BI ch' acred ervice and a ncluding ervice
Expressions of Heritage and Hope in Yi rk Min ter. Under the baron
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of it patron, Lord Menuhin and in the presence ofHRH T he uke
of dinburgh, T he Zemel hoir joined the oliegiate ingers and
T he Alyth Choral ociery to sing Bloch's acred ervice at t. Paul's
athedral. In 1996 the Choir participated in a 'Kri tallnacht' com
memoration, Vanished voices at the Barbican.
Alyth Choral Society In 1982, a part of the North Western Reform ynagogue's Jubilee
celebration , a choral sociery wa cr ated to perform M endel ohn's
Elijah to an audience of nearly 1,500. Al though envi aged as a one
off event, the enthusia m of the ingers and the encouragement of
the audience led to the formation of the Alyrh horal ociery which
i now in it sixteenth year.
The choir, under the mu ical direction of Vivienne Bellos, has
developed into one of the leading Jewish choirs in thi country and
had performed at the Barbican, t Martin in the Field , the Royal
Fe tival Hall and t Paul 's Cathed ral (und r the baton of Yehudi
Menuhin). T he choir's repertoire includes orato rio uch as The Creation, Judas Maccabeus, emele and The easons performed with
orche era. In 1993 they gave the world premiere performance of
Heritage by yril m ade!.
T he hoir takes part in Interfaith event with local churche and
ha regular social activitie for the member and friend of the
horal ociery. T hey welcome new member and are a1way seeking
t expand the hoir. For further information plea e telephone Judy
brart n 01 81 455 1732.
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ hrisropher B wer -Broadbent ha pre ided at the beautiful vintag
H arri on organ of the Wt t London ynagogue ince hi appoint
ment there a orga ni t in 1973 .
Hi early mu ical education wa a a chori ter in the fam d choir
fKing' liege, ambridge. H later tudied both organ and com-
po ition at London' Royal Academy of M u ic where hi profe or
wer Arnold Richard on and Richard Rodn y Bennett, and lib e
quently ucceeded Arnold a Profe or of rgan 1975- 92.
Bower -Broadbent' playing career ha taken him all over the
world. Hi lates t relea e (for E M) i M e iaen' great
Meditations sur le mystere de la ainte Trinitt and he appear mo t
recently n H armonia Mundi' De Profu.ndis with Paul HiIler's
T heatre of Voice .
In M ay 1995 Bower -Broadbent' children ' opera The Pied Piper wa performed at roydon' airfield Hal l in a ndon Mozart
Player educational project. on cantly compo ing, hi mo t r cent
Iy completed works are two ub tantial equenc 6 r rgan, which
he perform d in Tal linn , ron ia, arl i r th i y ar, and two horter
piece for a heatre of Voice rour of the tate in April. In ctober
la t yea r h ri premiered Arv Parr' Puzzle, written fo r him a a
birthday celebration.
well a hi appointment at the ynagogue, Bower -Broadbent
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i organi t and choirma ter of ray' Inn, one of the four Inns of
ourt, where he i also able, with rare ecumenical aplomb, to enjoy
the great heritage of hurch mu ic.
Robert Max, conductor Robert Max enjoy a colourful career a a conductor, celli t and
chamber-mu ician. He wa Mu ical irector of the Z m I hoir
from 1994 to June 1998 and conducted the choir' acclaimed
recording of nineteenth century liturgical mu ic by Lewandow ki for lympia, voted recording of the Year by the Jewi h hronicle.
Their D of English-Jewi h Mu ic wa relea ed thi year.
In June 1995 he conducted the hoir' fortieth anniver ary con
cert at the Queen lizabeth Hall and returned ther a year later with
a programme devoted to the ephardic and riental tradition. In
the ummer of 1996 the choir vi ited I rael for the Zimriyah horal
Fe tival and was the only foreign choir invited to ing in the open
ing concert, broadca t live on I raeli Radio.
celli t of the Barbican Piano Trio, Robert ha performed
throughout Europe, the U A, Rus ia, Uzbeki tan and the Far Ea t
and ha made two recording for A V He wa Mu ical irector of
the Nonesuch rche tra and ha rec ndy conducted th ovent
arden Chamb r rche tra, the Hamp tead infonia and at th
Wray bury Fe tival. Rob rt give regular recital with hi wife,
piani t Zoe olomon, including two at the Wigmore Hall, and i
Mu ical irector of Pro orda, the National chool for Young
hamber Mu ic Player.
Monday 23 November. 7.30pm The Place Theatre
The Joy and The Hope A dance programme about the Land of Israel Raya Spivak, artistic director Shlomo Maman, special adviser Maurice Stone, general director Oranim Israeli Dance Troupe Caroline Hoffbrand, dance director Nitzanim Youth Dance Troupe Betty Schechter, dance director Programme wi ll be cho en from the following item:
Veshuv Itchem ("We are with you) hlomo Maman, choreography
Simcha Nah (Lets be happy) Ya min Palmoni, choreography
Jerusalem Dance ado Krau , choreography
Mechol Hashnayim (Dance for Two) hlomo Maman, choreography
Flower Dances Ya min Palmoni and Barry Av'dan, ch reography
HavaNagila Barry Avidan, choreography
Interval
Tfila Bamidbar (Prayer in the Desert) Ilana ohen, chor graphy
Shibbolet Bassadeh (Sheaves in a field) Yasmin Palmoni, ch r ography
Adama (Dance for the land) Dado Krau , choreography
Nitzanim (Buds) rit Alyagon, chor ography
Mechol Hashalom (Dance for Peace) ado Krau , choreography
Mi Yitneini Of (Tambourine dance) ado Krau , chor ography
Lechaye Ha'amazeh (In honour of this nation) hlomo Maman, ch reography
The evening take a it theme the joy and th h pe in elebration
of the achievement of I rae l ver the fifty year f it xi ten e.
Image f the Bible, exotic Jewi h and Arab ommunitie, f the
pirit of modern I rael and the I nging fi r peace. What better way
t di play all the e diver e theme than through I raeli dan e which
draw on many ource but ha a vitality all fit wn.
Pr m ted by the I rael F Ik an e In titute-tl harity that aim
to pr m te good c mmunity relati ns through dan e. 11 ntact
ranim or Nitzanim write to: I rael Folk ance [n tiwte, Balfi ur
Hou e 741 igh R ad, L nd n N 12 OB ,TeI/Fax 01 1 4466427
The Performers
Oranim ramm an Tr upe i the premier I raeli dan e p rfi rming
troupe in the United Kingd m. The name ranim, (pinetree) wa
in pired by the fragrant and beautiful pine tree n the r ad t
Jew alem. ranim ffer a vibrant performan e of I urful dan e
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and mu ic reRecring rhe different influence which make up rhe
I rae ti culrural m aic: hassid ic danc from a tern urope; orien
tal dan es repre enting the Jewi h communitie from the Yemen,
Morocco and ther Arab countrie ; dance f the Pioneer, and oth
er reRecting modern I raeli theme, the beauty f the land and the
joy of youth.
ranim was form d in L nd n in January 1979, since when it
ha performed at uch venue a the Royal F tival Hall, the ueen
lizabeth Hal l, Alexandra Palace, th haw Theatre, the World
Travel Market the Labour Party onference, the e tival f World
Religi n , Alternative Art , and various ther I cal fe tivals, multi
cultural and Jewi h communal ev nt . Ir won fir c prize for I rael ar
BB Holiday Live '93. Ir ha represented che Unired Kingdom ac
che Karmiel ance Fesrival in north rn I rael fo ur rime . Th troupe
ha al undertaken pecial projecr uch a a performance workshop
in the Nari nal Theatre wirh rhe ca c of Jo hua obol' play Ghetto
and advice for che R producrion of The Dybbuk.
T h croupe aim to engender in it audien e a love for Israeli
dance which know 11 boundarie of poliric , religion, race or cul
cure. It member are drawn from dance enrhu ia t who rudy or
work in rh London ar a.
Nitzanim Nirzanim dance rroup wa formed in 1997 and i rhe yourh dance
croupe f rhe Israel F Ik ance In ricure. Ir member are drawn
from a number of chool and are aged berw en rwelve and ixceen.
Ir ha already app ared ac a number f chool and cher event
including rh I rael 50 elebrari n ar Wembley in April rhi year.
Tuesday 24 November, 1.oopm School of Oriental and African Studies
Talk: Classical Music in Modern Israel Alexander Knapp Alexander Knapp, mu i logi c, br adca rer and Joe 0 Le turer
in Jewi h Mu ic pre endy ac ity Univer ity, London, examine gen
eral trend, variety and richne f mu ic in I rael in rhe 20rh cen
rury.
Entrance Free. See notice board at main entrance for room number. Presented by Department of Jewish tudies, chool of Oriental and
African tudies.
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Tuesday 24 November, 7.30pm Purcell Room
Sparks and Bells: New and Established Works for Israel London Archduke Piano Trio: Nathaniel Vallois, violin liam Abramson, cello Charles Wiffen, piano Tal Weissman, piano Andrew Keenan, clarinet Simon Munday, trumpet Paul Grataix, tuba Louisa Duggan, harp Dorit Zelezniak-Noble, mezzo-soprano Ivor Goldberg, guitar TIm Gunnell, Simon Williams, James Turner, percussion Presented by Carmel Arts.
Sonata for Violin Solo (1951) Ben-Haim i) Allegro energico
ii) Lento e sotto voce
iii) Molto allegro
Nathaniel Vallois, violin
Elegie (1996) in memoriam Yitzhak Rabin (First UK performance) arah Feigin
London Archduke Piano Trio
Sparks from the Beyond (1996-7) (First UK Performance) il hohat
i) ljJarks from Infinity
ii) ljJarks from Existence
iii) 'Parks of Motion
iv) 'Parks of Material
v) ljJarks of Faith
vi) ljJarks of Beauty
vii) 'Parks of Love
Tal Weissman, piano
Sonata (1943) ide n Klein
i) Allegro con fooco
ii) Adagio
iii) Allegro vivace
Ta l Weissman, piano
Interval
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Bells (1998) (First Performance) Kyla Greenbaum Nathaniel Vallois, violin Liam Abramson, cello Charles Wiffen, piano Andrew Keenan, clarinet Simon Munday, trumpet Paul Gratrix, tuba Tim Gunnell, Simon Williams, James Turner, xylophone, glockenspiel, drums, gong and tubular bells
King David Sonata (1998) (First UK Performance) rut Irving lick
i) In the fields ii) David and aul iii) David the King
Louisa Duggan, harp
Sonata for Piano Trio (1987) (First UK Performance) Yehezkel Braun i) Preambulum (alfegro non troppo) ii) Elegia (molto adagio e tranquillo) iii) Moto perpetuo (alfegro vivace) London Archduke Piano Trio
Two Songs Naomi hemer i) Chorshat Haekaliptus (The Eucalyptus Forest)
ii) Machar (Tomorrow) Dorit Zelezniak-Noble, mezzo-soprano Ivor Goldberg, guitar
Paul Ben-Haim: Solo Sonata Paul Ben-Haim, I rael' be t known compo er wa born Paul
Frankenburger in Munich in 1891. He cudied piano, compo ition,
and conducting in hi hometown' Academy of Art (1 915- 20),
then erved as a istant conductor to Wal ter and Knappert bu ch
(1920-24) . T he ri e of Nazi m forced him to emigrate to Pale tine
in 1933 and he etded in Tel Aviv taking on hi new urname. He
oon e tablished him elf a the leading I raeli compo er and wa
awarded the pre tigiou I rael tate Prize in 1957 for hi orche tral
piece The Sweet Psalmist of IsraeL A late Romantic who tayed e en
tially within We tern tradition, he ought to ynthe ize it with the
tradition of hi adopted country, be it the pa toral mo d f Middle
Ea tern pea ant mu ic or uch dance a the Hora.
T he 010 onata, compo ed in Tel Aviv in the Aucumn of 195 1
and dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin, i one of Ben Haim' m t ig
nificant and per onal work . It three movement are imple in fo rm
and poignant in content. T he alfegro energico combine the form of
a prelude with the drive of a toccata. The lento e sotte voce, i played
with th mute throughout; an expre ive fantasy which produce a
trangely attractive colouring by employing grace note, trill and
echo effect. T he molto alfegro return with the drive and for e of the
opening movement, with Hora rythm di cernible within the tex
ture. Th onata wa given it fir t performance by Menuhin at the
arnegie Hall , New York, on 4 February 1952: the ame arti t gave
the I raeli premi re in April of that year.
Sarah Feigin: Eh!gie Born in Riga, Latvia on 1 July 1928, arah Feigin moved to Israel in
1972, 'after having tudied at the Riga Mu ic Academy. Whil t liv
ing in Latvia he ompo ed five ballet on Ru ian pics, and Ru sian
folk mu ic ha influenced her work trongly. A year after her arrival
in I rael, he et up a mu ic con ervatory for new immigrants in
Hol n and wa it director for approximately ten year . he i
involved with innovative t aching for group of children. he ha
al 0 written piano and rgan w rks. arah Feigin had alway r act
ed to event which took plac in I rael or involve a Jew' life with a
pecial compo ition dedicated to the event. To menti n but a few:
The Last Road, (a piano onata d dicat d to the victim of Babi Ytzr), (1976). Prayer, for violin and piano (1987); Fugubre, for vocal and piano (dedicated to the victim of the Beit Leed ma acre f March 1995) and the ELegie.
n the evening of 4 November 1995, compo er arah eigin
attended an opera performance in Tel Aviv. n her way h me after
the concert, he overh ard the tragic news about th a a ination f
Prime Mini ter Yitzhak Rabin, a few blocks fr m the New I rael
pera building. hocked and haken by a turmoil of feel ing, triv
ing for an em tional outbur t, which we normal ly Ive by crying,
he at at h r pian that very night. T hi i how th ELegie ame
about. Although it onvey an overall r man tic and ad feeling, the
ELegie peaks with an optimi tic me ag, 10 king forward with h pe
for a better world, and c nelude with an interrupted reiterati n of
the theme. N t un like Rabin' wn life.
Gil Shohat
Born in 197 , in Ti I Aviv, il hohat i a graduate of the I raeli
Mu ic on ervatory. hold degree fr m the Rubin I rael
Acad my of Mu ic ( el Aviv Univer icy), with p tgraduate degre s
from the Accademia Nazionale di . e ilia in Rom in omp ition
and pian . He mpleted hi tudie in ambridge. Hi tea her of
c mpo iti n included Andre Haidu, Azio orghi, Ivan Vandor,
Lucian Berio and Alexander ehr. i teacher f pian included
Rachel F in tein, Arie Vardi , Maria urcio, ergi Perticar li.
Among the award h hat ha w n are the fir t prize in the I raeli
Academy, and in the Rubin te in om po ltlon mpetiti n Ft r
parks fro m the Beyond,· a fellow hip Prize of the Briti h un il and
fr m th Italian overnment, the Ameri an-I raeli ulcural Foundation Award .
il h hat i ne f the few I raeli mpo er t have re eived
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international recognition. Hi pieces have already been presented in
most uropean countries, in the U A and in Israel. T hey include
pieces for piano, chamber piece, concertos, ymphonies, ong cycles
and two cantatas, all of which have had their debut performances at
I raeli and international venues. ong of ongs was premi red on 4
June 1998 at the Israel Festival in Jeru alem. hohat is currently
completing a viola concerto for Yuri Bashmet, commi ioned by
Valerj ergev, and a group f etude for different in truments, com
missioned by Milano Musica Fe tival '98. The Keshet Eilon
International Violin Mastercourses commissioned hi Lacrimose, to
be performed this ummer, with hlomo Mintz conducting. hohat
was invited by the Haifa ymphony rchestra to write a special
ymphony marlcing the year 2000: the N ew Israeli pera commis
sioned him to write an pera, entitled Alpha and Omega (based on
lithograph by dvard Munch), for the 2001 sea on.
Gideon Klein id on Klein was born on the 6 ecember 1919 in Prerov na
Morave. From a very early age he displayed great musical talent. H e
tudied the p iano with Prob ssor Ruzena Kurzova and graduated
with flying colour from the ma ter cla of Professor Vilem Kurz.
oncurrently he studied musicology at harles Univer ity, Prague,
and compo ition with Profe or Alois Haba. His tudie were cur
tailed when the erman occupation closed down al l zech colleges
and univer itie .
In e ember 1941 he wa interned in the concentration camp in
Terezin and in ctober 1944 wa deported via Au chwitz to
Furstengrube where he was lci lled at the end ofJanuary 1945.
Kyla Greenbaum: Bells Kyla reenbaum ha had a di tingui hed career a a concert pianist,
and i well kn wn b r her upp rt of twentieth entury mu ic. H er
fir t performance include the choenberg piano concerto and
Prok fi ev' ec nd pian ncerco. he prem i red work by
kalkotta, ho takovich, Hindem ith, Me aien and many other in
br adca t and concert through ut urope and N rth America.
ha been inn vative. he initiated the
mp It1 n ur e at the uildhall h 01 fMu ic and
rama and the ontemporary an e and Mu ic c ur e at the Royal
A ademy of Mu ic and a ur e, The Language of the core at York
Univer ity, D r nt . KyJa' own mp iti n have now been per
form ed in Fran e (Vergt Fe tival), I rael, North America and the
UK. he i a Fell w f the Royal Academy f Mu i .
he write, 'The e ket he were pr vok d by the very nflict
ing impre i n fr m en ounter with the people in I rael. Not 0
mu h a Via Dolorosa but a j urney fr m Jew alem t Meggid . he
b urth ketch relate t w rd fro m a poem by Ja qu Prevert:
t leux
upr nent Adam and ve
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Leur dit
ontinuer je vous en prie
N e deranger vous pour moi
Faites comme si
Je n'exi tais pas!'"
Srul Irvlng Glick: Harp Sonata This is the third piece rul Glick has wri tten for the harp. Part of his
inspiration came from the idea of King David as a harpist. T he first
movement In The Fields, is a reference to young David the shepherd.
The second movement David and aut, refers to the occa ions when
King aul requested D avid to play the harp to soothe his troubled
spirit during his sleepless nights. T he third movement David the King, expresses the vibrant personal ity of the warrior-lover who also
loves od with great passion and dances wi th unbridled joy before
the Ark of the Lord. This piece also reflects his deep connection with
the Psalms of King David, which he set in Sing Unto the Lord a New ong and many other works. H e says ' I pray with the Psalms and
study them regularly. T hey always leave me refreshed and renewed
in pirit with the depth of their insight, and devotion to od' .
Yehezkel Braun: Trio Born in 1922, Yehezkel Braun has lived in Israel since the age of two,
with close contact to Jewi h and East M editerranean mu ic.
raduating from the Israel Academy of Music, he i now the
Profes or meritus at Tel Aviv University. H i main academic inter
est are traditional Jewish melodies and regorian chant (having
tudied regorian hant at the Benedictine monastery of ole mo
in France.) H e has lectured on the e and other ubj ects in urope
and the United tate .
The fir t movement of the piano trio opens enigmatically with
uni on from violin , cello and piano before breaking into tinato
pa age for all three instrument. T he harmonic style i tonal, ba ed
on the tonal-centre , al though th i i periodically disgui ed by
exten ive chromatici m , and by frequent u e of th e tritone. T he ri -
ing and ometime falling arpeggi passages are reminiscent of the
'M annheim rocket' cyle favo ured by Mozart and Haydn, while the
lyrical econd theme wi th its accompanying yn opation ha a di -
tinctly romantic fl avour. he movement end by lowing to a gentle
re lution .
Elegia, the p n ive low movement open in the key of " flat
major, with oaring, regretfu l theme fi r t played by the violin , before
the ello j ins in uni on. he tem po picks up lightly in th midd le
ection, where the major- min r clashe igni fy ome unea e, and
where the mel dy i hared between th piano and double- top in
the vi lin part. hi fin al ly return to the opening temp , where
emoti n are broadly explor d.
T h finale i an exciting dance with echoes f the tarant lIa. It open with pen tring and progre e through ome del i ate pa -
agew rk t a r u ing onclu i n in major- the original tonal
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centre. T he work wa fir t performed in ctober 1998 in Hanover,
ermany, by the I rael Piano Trio.
The Performers
Louisa Duggan, harp Loui a uggan had her fir t harp les on at the age of six. Five year
later, h gained a place a a junior tudent at the Royal ollege of
Music and wa awarded a full ch lar hip t the Purcell chool of
Mu ic. Louisa ha ju t graduated with a fir t cla honour degree
from Trinity ollege of Mu ic. he ha given two perD rmance of
the Mozart flute and harp concerto a well a performing ebu y'
Dames acree et Profane and Ravel' Introduction and Allegro for trings. he ha given 010 r cital at t Martin in the Field,
outhwark athedral the Harp ociation of reat Britain and the
ternberg entre. T hi ummer Loui a played with the Britten Pear
ontemporary Mu ic n emble working with liver Knu en, al 0
with the British Youth p ra in a production ofPu cini' La Boheme and he i now a member of a new orche tra, oncilium.
The London Archduke Piano Trio T he London Archduke Pian Tri made their London debut at the
R yal Academy of Mu ic in 1996 playing Beeth ven' Triple Concerto. They followed thi with a outh African tour and made
their debut in 1997 on the outh Bank a part of the Jewi h Mu ic
Heritage ru t' a tern uropean Jewi h ul ture el bration. In
July 1998 the trio wa invited t the arlington Internati nal
ummer chool to perD rm and coach, and in tober 199 played
in London' Trafalgar quare Fe tival.
Nathaniel VaUois, violin Nathaniel wa b rn in Pari and gave hi fir t 10 perD rmance aged
nine in ion ( wi tze rland). Two year later he wa elected to play
for Zino France cacti. Further tudie ~ 1I0wed in 1 rael, then in
London at the Purcell chool and at the R yal liege f Mu ic
with Itzhak Ra hkov ky. He ha won numer u prize and award ,
including a Leverhulme Foundati n cholar hip and a Martin Tru t
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cholar hip to work with Ruggiero Ricci. He per~ rm r gularly
throughout Britain , in ur pe and in I rael. In 1993 he perform d
Bartok' fir t concerto in anterbury ath dral, a part of the
Fe tival. Recent 01 per~ rmances have included the Brahm,
Mendel ohn, v hlk and Berg oncerto.
liam Abramson, ce llo
Liam wa born in outh Africa and participated in ma tercla e
with Pierre ournier at the age of ten. He wa later awarded a
Foundati n ch lar hip to the R yal ollege f Mu ic where he
ontintted hi scudie with Wi ll iam Pleeth and Amaryll i Jeming.
He ha al 0 participated in ma ter la e with Yo-Y4 Ma, Ralph
Kir hbaum and Bernard reenh u . In 1992 he won the agle tar
award D r tring in the Royal ver- ea League Mu ic mpetiti n
and ha ub equently tudied with Uzi W i el. harle and iam
perform d together in the Fir t International Jeru alem Mu ic
ncounter in 1993 and have ub equently recorded a a duo for
BB Radio and for the launch f the R I label. T h y have
per~ rmed together in venue in luding the Wigmore Hall and the
Purcell Room.
Charles Wiffen, piano harle performed thr ughout reat Britain a well a in urope,
I ra I and outh Africa. He tudied at the Univer ity of
Wi twater rand in J hanne burg and at the Royal olleg f Mu ic
in London. He ha worked und r Maria mon
and manuel Ax among ther. e ha w n numer u prize u h
a the AB Youth mpetition, the F n e ompetttt n, ud
Mee t r Mu ic Priz , the Percival Kirby old Medal, the Jim J el
Prize, the Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Mem rial Prize, and the J y
COct h pin Prize. A w 11 a rec rding ~ r BB Radi and the
AB , harle ha recently re rded a f pian mu i by
Beeth ven. In 1998 h wa appointed the ve Juni r Re ar h
Fellow at the Royal ollege of Mu i. harle ha appea red with
Liam in everal pre tigi u Fe tival in luding tho e f th Park Lane
r up, Brighton, PyrD rd urt, and helsea. T h y have toured
together a far afield a I rael and Zimbabwe and outh Afri a. T heir
late t f the Brahm ell nata .
'The e perD rmer ar highly per ua ive advo ate and per~ rm
with real verve and flair' Ooanne Talb t, The trad}
'The bri ll iant mu ic had nin tee nth entury erta inty, twentieth
century d ubt: an expre ive mixture f b th' (Ri k J ne, Evening tandard)
'Thi perD rman e wa nvincing and vital' ( -I peth Ja k, ape Times)
Dorit Zelezniak-Noble, mezzo-soprano rit emigrated t ape 11 wn fr m I rael at the age f ten. After
completing her degree at the uth Afri an liege f Mu i in
ape 11 wn, orit w n a ntra t t the I al pera tudi
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( APAB) where he wa contracted ro ing orabella (Cosl fan tutte)
in the tudio' touring production to Namibia.
ince arriving in the UK, orit has ung the role of Mother
00 e (Rakes Progress) for Briti h Youth pera at pitalfield Market
pera and Niklau 6 r the pera chool of WaJe touring produc
ti n of Tales of Hoffman.
Tal Weissman al Wei man wa born in Haifa where he began hi musical train
ing at the age of five. He later took a d gre at the Rubin Academy
in el Aviv. After winning everal national and international prizes
Tal performed concert with the I rael hamber rche tra, giving
recital at the Tel Aviv Mu eum and the Janacek Hall in Prague. In
1995 he moved to London in order t tudy with internationally
renowned piani t and teacher Maria urci iamand. upport from
Wingate cholar hip and from the Briti h ouncil has made it pos-
ible for him t enter the Royal Academy of Mu ic. ince c ming to
London, Tal ha giv n ncert with the Haifa ymphony
rch tra, with A. Lip ky conducting and ha twice appear d in
recital at th I rael Amba ad r' re idenc in London. Mo t recent
ly he ha performed the works of ideon KJein, chubert and
hopin at the hamber Mu ic e tival, alon de Prov nce, August
1998. In the pring of 1999 Tal i taking an exten ive rour to
America and I ra I which will include a recital at the Jeru alem
Mu ic entre (to be broadca t live on I raeli Radio).
Wednesday 25 November, 7.30pm The Place Theatre
The Moving Voice Nima Jacoby, choreographer, dancer Noa Lachman, soprano Rianka Bouwmeester, piano Danoush Lachman, designer Thi programme pre ent an innovative and urpri ing fu ion of
ound and movement, involving c ntemp rary danc, pecially
mmi i ned mu i, ephardi ong of the Jew of pain and
Hebr w ong in a integrated programme. The programme will b
pre ented with ut a break.
ttpported by El Al Israel Airlines, Visiting Arts and Keter UK Ltd.
Extinct Birds h r ography by Nima Jac by
mu ic by I rael Bright Nima Jacoby A I dance with riginal mu ic. rry volume f 6 rg tt n
hildh d ulture are pre ented n tage. h dancer move
am ng the bo ks.
I ra I Bright, I raeli mu ician and c mp r, ha written mu i 6 r
theatre, film and dance. He ha w rked with the mo t di tin-
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gui hed arti ts and in titutions in Israel. Recently he gained
national ucces with hi Band Ha mahot, which combine local
oriental mu ic with digital contemporary elements.
Three Israeli Songs arrang d for piano and voice by Menachem Wiesenberg
Layla Layla (Night by Night) word by Mordechai Zeira, music by Nathan Alterman
Mah Omrot Onayih (What say your eyes)
words by Mordechai Zeira, music by Itzhak henhar
hechora Ani (1 am Black) from the oratorio ongs of ong
Mark Lavry
Noa Lachman, soprano Rianka Bouwmeester, piano
X choreography by Nima Jacoby music by Dror Elimelech Nima Jacoby Xis the title of a solo dance with original music by I raeli compos
er Dror limelech. His music combine contemporary cla sical
music with electro-acou tic instrument. He works a a compo er,
poet and psychologist.
From Coplas Sefordies, opus 43 Alberto Hem i i) Tres hermanicas eran (There once were three sisters) ii) Bueno asi biva la coshuegra (To Mother-in-laws health) Noa Lachman, soprano Rianka Bouwmeester, piano
From Coplas Sefordies, opus 45 Alberto Hem i i) De enfrente la vide venir (I saw her coming) ii) Mi Padre era de Francia (My father is a Frenchman) iii) Torondon
iv) Quen es este Paxarico (Who is the bird that appeared?) Noa Lachman, soprano Rianka Bouwmeester, piano
Strange choreography by Nima Jacoby mu ic by N ri Jac by A pie e 6 r piano and danc r. The piece expre e udd n change
of character, mo d and ryle. he dancer and the piano rev al
new trange aspect f them elves. The compo er, Nori Jacoby wa
born in I rael in 1979 and tudied the violin with hi grandfather,
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the well-known Israeli compo er Hanoh Jacoby. From 1993 he
studied composition with Andre Haidu at the Israeli Art and
cience Academy and at the Rubin Mu ic Academy in Jeru alem.
He i now er ing his national duty with th I raeli efence
Force . The ound-track of thi work include part of an interview
with an Aid patient, five days before hi death. Thi work deal
with encountering the immutabl narure of death.
Nima Jacoby Nori Jacoby, piano
Zefirah: a piece for voice, piano and dance choreography by Nima Jacoby
ongs wrirren between the 1930 and the 1960 for, and ung by,
Braha Zefirah, the most important ethnic Yemenite inger in
Israel,. Most of Israel' leading compo er : Ben-Haim, Nardi,
Jacoby, Arniram and oth rare repre ented here.
Nima Jacoby Noa Lachman soprano Rianka Bouwmeester, piano
The Ladino Language The name Ladino derives from Latino (Latin) and wa applied by
the Medieval Jews of pain, to the language of their land, to differ
entiate it from Hebrew, the language of their prayer. After the
expul ion of Jew from pain in 1492, the word Ladino came to be
ynonymous with the panish a it wa spoken by the expatriated
panish Jew . Thi ancient pani h languag wa carried by the
panish Jews to all points of their di per ion and in time it ab orb d
many words of reek, Rumanian, Turki h, Yugo lavian, Porrugue e,
French and Italian origin. Throughout the centurie f di per ion it
r mained lingui tically so to peak, fo ili ed.
Alberto Hemsi (1897-1975) Alberto Hemsi w born in a ba, Turkey. Hi par nt ,Italian ub
jects, were de cendant of Jew who fled from the pani h
Inquisition. When Hem i wa about ten the family moved to Izmir
where the boy acquired hi secular and Jewi h education . Hi gift of
music oon became apparent and in 1913 he went to rudy at the
Verdi on ervatory in Milan. After the Fir t World War in which he
was injured in battle while serving with the Italian Army he returned
to Izmir to pur ue a mu ical career which c ntred on re earch int
the panish Jewi h mu ical heritage. In 1923 he moved t the i land
of Rhode and continued hi re earch among the i land' mall
Jewi h population. In 1927 he wa invited by the hief Rabbi of
Alexandria to take charge of the mu ical life of the town' Jewi h
Community, then numbering about 60,000. uring hi life in the
Near East Hemsi devoted him elf to collecting and writing down th
ongs of the panish Jewish community. He collected 230 of the e
song in Istanbul, alonica, Esmirna and Anatolia, Rode, and
Cipro, ixty of which he arranged for pian and voice and pub-
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li hed in ten volume of Coplas efordies. Hem i' collection i a cru
cially important ourc for the tudyof a tern ephardic tradition
al poetry. In this great task Hemsi wa undoubtedly influenced by
many compo er who worked with folk material , uch as Bartok,
Kodily, Ravel, ranado, e alla and other . Yet he found hi own
di tinctive way of treating th material he collected.
The Performers
Noa Lachman, soprano Born in I rael, Noa Lachman rudied at the Rubin Academy of
Mu ic, and the Hebrew Univer ity. he then came to London where
she completed her tud ie at King' oil ge and at Trinity oil g of
Mu ic. In 1994 he took part in ma tercla e in London and
Vienna with world renowned oprano Ileana otruba . he i now
a rudent of Hazel Wood and William Hancox.
In I rael, Noa ang in the I rael National hoir Rinat and the
ameran inger under conduct r uch a tanley perber, Zubin
Mehta, Jame Levine and aniel Barenboim. he ha perfo rmed and
recorded for the I raeli National Radi and Televi ion, and appear d
in the world premi r of mu i by Isra li mpo er .
Nima Jacoby, dancer, choreographer Born in I rael, Nima danced with the Kibbutz ontemp rary
ance mpany and Inbal ance T heatre. With the e ompani
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sh performed works of world renowned choreographers such a of
Mat k, Danny Azralov, u anna Linke, Rami Be'er, ideon
ber ank, Margalit ved, and toured zecho lovalcia, ermany,
hina, Au tralia, pain and witzerland.
inc 1995 she has created her own work, performing all over
Israel. he ha won several choreography award uch as reative
Art Fellow hip, he Albert aubi r Foundation, The American
Israeli ul tural Foundation cholar hip and an honorable mention
by the Acre Fe tival ompetition Jury. Nima Jacoby is now com
pleting her MA degre in dance tudies at the Laban entre for
Movement and ance in London, and i upport d by Anglo-Jewish
Association and the Ian Karten haritable Trust.
'Jacoby i alway urpri ing and exciting and this is what makes
thi how 0 wonderful .. .' KolIsraeL
Rianka Bouwmeester, piano Born in the Netherland ,Rianka tarted playing the piano at the ag
of nin . Aft r her piano udies at the Zwolle onservatoire he
moved to London in 1994 for po tgraduate studie at rinity
olleg of Mu ic with John Bingham and at th uildhall choolof
Mu ic with Jame ibb. In • ngland she won the John ongmire
Pian ft rte ompetiti n, John Hal~ rd Prize for piano duet,
or thy awe Prize for French ong, T M tudent Union
hamber Mu ic Prize and the John Ir land Prize.
he i a member of the Jupiter Piano ri and ha given concert
and broadca t in ermany, le land, the N therland, Hungary,
Roman ia and the United Kingdom. he currently h Id a
Fell w hip at the ndon olleg of Mu ic and w rks ft r th
uildhall cho I and the R yal ollege f Mu ic.
Oanoush Lachman, designer cu lpt r and de igner. he i a graduate f BFA (Vict rian ollege
f the Art , Melb urne, Au tralia) . Her w rk wa xhibited in
Au tralia and I rael. h i n w tea hing art in T he Tel Aviv Art
Mu eum and h r cen tly had a 01 exhibition in the Heinri h Ball
Foundati n allery, Tel Aviv.
Thursday 26 November, 7.30pm Level 6, Main Building, City University, London
What is Jewish Music? Can it be defined? Discussion chaired by Or Glenda Abramson, editor of The Blackwell Companion to Modern Jewish Culture Or Glenda Abramson, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Stud ies Yehezkel Braun, composer and Emeritus Professor of Composit ion, Tel Aviv University Michael Haas, executive producer of Decca's special series on 'Entartete Musik'
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Moshe Haschel, cantor, St John's Wood United Synagogue Or Tzipora H. Jochsberger, founder and director of the Israel Music Heritage Project, Jerusalem and Executive Director of the ten-part-video documentary series on Jewish music, A People and Its Music (see 16-20 November) Or Lionel Kochan, historian, Wolfson College and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Sara Manasseh, specia list in Iraqi-Jewish music, University of Kingston Robert Saxton, Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Josef Tal, Professor of Music, University of Jerusalem and composer of the opera The Garden (see 29 November) 'Jewi h Music' i a term that frequently sparks controver y and
debate. What are its unique characteristics? Member of an invited
panel of peciali ts, under the chairmanship of r lenda
Abramson, will confront the e and many other relevant i ues by
presenting short statements. aken together, these are to form the
ba is of a panel di cu ion, which will then be thrown open to the
audience. (Organised by Alexander Knapp)
British Society for Practitioners of Jewish Music T he Briti h ociety for Practitioners of Jewish Mu ic was inaugurat
ed on 8 ebruary 1998, under the au pice of the Jewish Mu ic
Heritage Tru t, and in as ociation with the Joe Lo L cture hip in
J wi h Mu ic. he ociety ha a it aim , to rai e th profile of prac
tid ner in thi field, and to act as re ource, and information
exchange ~ r member. With nearly eighty people already ign d up
from Britain and urope, the ociety i preparing a detailed directo
ry f memb rand arrang event uch a thi t further' the inter
e t f member. hairman Alexander Knapp, Member hip
ecr tary Vivienne Bello, Minute ecretary John Abram n
Tre urer Barry Weinberg. To find out how to join the oci ty, call
Vivi nn Bello n01818831773.
Saturday 28 November, 7.30pm Conway Hall
Ziryab Trio: Oriental Art Music Taiseer Elias, oud, musical director Nassim Oakwar, violin Zohar Fresco, percussion Presented by armel Arts in association with Pan Project Intercultural Arts/Interface Festival (Tel 0171 4056702)
Full of exotic beat and unu ual in trument ,thi concert will giv a
genui ne in ight into the mind and oul of oriental mu ic. he
Ziryab tri i named after Ziryab, an oud player, inger and prolific
poet in the ninth entury ourt of Haroun Al-Ra hid in Baghdad.
Their performance tonight will cover urki h and Arabic mu ic f
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the nineteenth and twentieth cemurie , including cla ical tradition
uch a Longa, and Taskim, and piece by uch famou Arab com
po er as Riad Al- unbari, Muhamad Abd AI Wahab and the
Turki h Tanburi emil Bey and Ma 'ud emit Bey. They play with
deep pa ion, u ing traditional in trument uch a the oud and the
riqq. heir u e of mu ical ornamentation and improvi ation ha
been acclaimed worldwide.
The member of the Z iryab Trio are al 0 member of the group
Bu tan Abraham, p rforming at the ue n lizabeth Hall on
unday 29 November.
Taiseer Elias, oud, musica l director For biography see page 57
Nassim Dakwar, violin For biography ee page 57
Zohar Fresco, riqq (daff) and additional percussion For biography ee page 57
Sunday 29 November, 11.ooam The Voice Box
Gardens of Eden: What Price Paradise? Rabbi Julia Neuberger chair a di cu ion about the meaning of th
Eden tory with thr e li terary figure . Poet Michelene Wandor intro
duce her poetry equence Gardens of Eden, I rael Eliraz di cu e hi
libretto of the opera The Garden (to be performed at 5.00pm) and
noveli t an Jacob on examine Mi lton' Paradise Lost.
Sunday 29 November, 2.30pm Royal Festival Hall
Vienna Boys Choir: Family Concert 500th Anniversary Tour Gerald Wirth, conductor
acred Mu ic from th Vienna Imperial hapel: regorian ham,
allu , Fux, Eybler and Herbeck; Mozarr and hi Legacy: huberr,
Mendel ohn, Brahm and Han Knl a' Brundibdr: thi fairy ta le
pera of the victory f g od ver evil and the d feat of tyranny, wa
performed fifty-five time in the There ien tadt concemrati n camp,
by chi ldren, mo t of whom like the author later peri hed in
Au chwitz. In pite of it background, Brundibdr i a wonderful,
tun fu l modern opera for children.
Presented in association with Anglo-Austrian Music ociety. upported by Cultural ection of Austrian Federal Chancellery.
As a token of the Austrian Presidency of the EU, proceeds of this concert will benefit Oakwood Integrated Primary chool, Belfast.
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Sunday 29 November, 5.oopm Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Garden by Josef Tal Chamber Opera in seven scenes, prologue and intermezzo (1987) First English Language and UK Performance Libretto by Israel Eliraz English Translation by Gila Abrahamson Diane Atherton, soprano, as Eve Darren Fox, tenor, as Adam The Serpent: to be announced Thameside Opera George Badacsonyi, conductor John Abulafia, director Sophie Tyrrell, costumes and set Instrumental Ensemble, Trinity College of Music, London
Benjamin Watson, Flute doubling Piccolo and Alto Flute; Alvaro Vega, Oboe doubling English Horn; Melanie van Aueriuch, Clarin et doubling E flat Clarinet and Basset Horn; Maria Jenkins, Saxaphones; Mark Pe rciva I, Horn; Clive Zvanwinski, Tuba; James Gambold, Percussion; Nikos Valiotis, Cello.
This project is supported by London Arts Board, Embassies of Israel, and the Federal Republic of Germany, The Esmee Fairbairn Trust, El Al Israel Airlines, Royal Garden Hotel, Travelink roup, The fan Karten Trust.
he pera will be pre em d with ut a break.
Josef Tal: The Garden The fiftieth anniver ary f
the tate f I rael ha b en
the pur for pre eming thi
mo t igni fi am and litrle
kn wn w rk in ond n by
I rae l' en ior omp er,
J efTal. T he per6 rma n e
will be attend d by the
mp r and libretti t, a
well a the Amba ad r f
I rael. T hi pr du tion f
The arden i the w rid
prem iere per6 rma n tn
the pecial ngli h tran lati n, whi h ha been upervi ed by the
libr tti t and publi hed by IMI (I rael Mu i In titute). It i nly the
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second performance ince the work was commi ioned and pre
miered by the H amburg tate pera in 1988. The Garden takes a
topical but wry look at ociety today, judged by value inherited
from th Bible. T his i expre ed in a contemporary per pective by
Adam and ve and the erpent, back in the arden of den to
which th y have returned to ponder their riginal choice and to
solv their marital problem. As amu ing a it is illuminating, it i a
highly harged dramatic play on human relation hips and attitudes,
with philo ophical underton of the present day that allow a
woman to change her mind, or even choo e to hare a menage Cl trois. Previou works had called for larger force, but in thi late work, Tal
has pared away hi vi ion to allow him to sympathi e more directly
with hi characters. It i a if he ha reached a cry talli ation of his
life' endeavours.
Jo f al was born in Poland in 1910. H e p nt hi ea rly years in
rmany where he rudied and graduated in compo ition from the
Berlin Hoch chule fur Mu ic. Paul Hindemith wa on of hi teach-
r . Becau e of th N azi per cution of the Jews, Tal emigrated to
Pale tine in 1934 ince when he ha played a major role in the mu i
cal lih of I rael , becoming Musical irector of the onservatoire
and Profe sor of Mu ic of the Univer ity of Jerusalem. a compos
er, al ha adhered to the contemporary cla ical tyle both in word
and mu ic that he ab orbed from his education and training in hi
early yea r in ermany. Hi entire output reflect a faithful attach
ment to hi central ur pean origins, and in particular to the
erman mu ical heritag . After th econd World War, al re-estab
li hed hi erman onnection and ha been awarded many pre ti
giou c mmi ion from the major rman opera hu e and fi ti
val . T he e includ Ashmedai, a large cale work for the H amburg
tat p ra 1968/69, Die Versuchung for th Bavarian tate pera,
Munich 1975, a well a many in trumental piece. Hi many et
ting of cla ical and c ntemporary text from erman literature
and poetry h w him to have a genuine affinity with the erman
tongue .
More recently hi ymphony N . 6 wa commi ion d by N R
H ann ver for the 1992 chede Fe tival, and the vocal work Bitter Line by the Berlin e tival f 1992. It i evid nt from hi many com
mi ion that al' ucce in rmany ow nothing to any under
lying de ire to make rec mp n e for the per ecution of the past.
uite imply, the relation hip he ha with the erman language
(aIm t on a mother-tongue level) place him unambiguou Iy
among t the int rnati nally r ogni ed inherit r and exponent of
quint ential erman culture and it music. H e wa honoured by
being made a member of the erman Academy f Art in 197 1.
Briti h audienc have had little exp ure t Tal ' w rk. Apart from
a h w br adca t rec rding f hi mu ic and a ingle performance of
hi ec nd ymphony at a pr menade con ert little el e has been
heard in the U K.
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The Performers
Dlane Atherton, soprano oming from and tudying in Yorkshire, Diane has a post-graduate
qualification from the uildhal l chool of Music and rama. A
keen Mozart singer, she has sung in several Mozart operas, as well as
in other peratic work. he has performed with the Bournemouth
infonietta and has also appeared at the Queen lizab th Hall.
Future plan include recitals in cocland and heffield, featuring
French mu ic.
Darren Fox, tenor A graduate from the uildhall chool of Mu ic and rama, arren
ha ung with the European hamber rche tra, and ha been
called ca natural Mozartian' (Opera Magazine). He has al 0 ung for
the Briti h Youth pera and the ngli h Touring pera and intend
to ing in more modern opera, uch as Trouble in Tahiti by
Bern t in and Blue Monday by ershwin.
Sophie TyrreU, designer ophie is delighted to be working with John Abulafia, whom she
first m t when hortli ted for the Linbury Prize in 1995 . ince then,
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her opera designs have included rfeo at the Barber In titute, The Magic Flute for arden pera, Eugene Onegin at Birmingham
Conservatoire and Susannah at the Midland Arts Centre.
George Badacsonyi, conductor George was born in Budapest, and is Thameside pera' music
director. He began his musical studies in Hungary and then contin
ued in Vienna and London. Winning the Ricordi Prize for pera
Conducting in successive years led to hi appointment a pera
Director at University College, London. For over ten year he wa
involved in the presentation of little known works of major com
posers, such as Verdi' I Due Foscari and tiffelio, Mus or ky' oroshintzy Fair and Das Liebesverbot by Wagner. H conducted pro
duction for several opera companie uch a British pera
Company, Phoenix, pera Concerts Ltd a well as for the Camden
Festival. He has a long-standing association with the BB opera
productions, being involved in many studio recording and prome
nade concerts. He has conducted everal of the BB orche tras, and
worked with both the BBC inger and BBC Northern inger. In
addition he has been engaged with opera companie in Holland,
Hungary, Bulgaria and ermany.
John Abulafia, director John Abulafia, has achieved national recognition for hi production
of contemporary opera. Hi ptoduction credit include ngli h
National pera and Mecklenberg pera. He ha produced five
operas at The Queen Elizabeth Hall and a Ptomenade performance
at the Royal Albert Hall.
Thameside Opera Thameside pera is a profe ional chamber opera company estab
li hed in 1985 with the performance of luck' La Danza at
t John's, mith quare. It has con istendy been praised for the rar
ity of the works performed and the excellence of it production,
presenting operas in Festival in the City of London, Bracknell,
Cheltenham and Portsmouth. It has gained a notable reputation for
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the niche its imaginative repertoire fill in the world of music-the
atre. Thame ide pera e tabli hed a fruitfu l as ociation with th
Wilde T heatre in Bracknell , which led to acclaimed joint ptoduc
tion by Peter Maxwell avi , hea Musgrave and ir William
Walton. They also co-ptoduced Peter Brook' version of Bizet'
armen which played to capacity hou e . T he London Art Board
upported Tham side pera's Briti h Premiere production of
Rothchild's Violin by Flei hmannl ho takovich at the ueen
lizabeth Hall in November 1997.
Sunday 29 November, 8.oopm Queen Elizabeth Hall
Bustan Abraham Music from the Middle East Taiseer EUas, oud Miguel Herstein, classical guitar and banjo Amir Milstein . flute Avshalom Farjun, qanoun (oriental zither) Nassim Oakwar, violin Emmanuel Mann, bass Zohar Fresco, percussion: dubakkeh, daff, bandir, za rb, bodhran, congitas, bongos, tamtams, bass drum, cymbals, panderos, bells, shakers, effects Presented in association with Carmel Arts. upported by the Embassy of Israel, Visiting Arts, and El Al Israel Airlines.
Bustan Abraham h music of Bu tan Abraham i a rare example of a fu ion between
Middle astern and We tern tyle . even mu ician , from Jewi h
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and Arabic backgrounds, have named themselves after Abraham's
garden, ('Bustan' a Hebrew and Arabic word meaning 'garden of
fruit and essence ') reflecting the reverence in which both religions
hold Abraham, father of Isaac and Ishmael. Their wide experience a
oloists and conductors have led to a truly skilled group of perform
ers playing varied musical styles, from Arabic and Turkish to
lamenco and American folk music. ver the last seven years,
Bustan Abraham has earned a reputation both in Israel and world
wide for its dedication to a very high art form in the performance
and original compositions of world music. Bustan Abraham made
their debut in this country in 1995, performing in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, and at the World Music Festival WOMAD. Bu tan
Abraham' London concert is linked with performances at the
Munich and Amsterdam Jewish music festivals.
The Performers
Amir Milstein, flute
Israeli by birth, Amir lived in South America during some of his
childhood, and has been influenced by that style of music. From
beginning on the recorder at the age of six, Amir has played the sax
ophone but is primarily a flautist. Amir has played and recorded
with some Israeli jazz-rock groups and has toured the Briti h Isles
with I raeli folklore groups.
Avshalom Farjun, qanoun, musical director
Born in I rael, Avshalom is a tenth gen ration Israeli. Avshalom has
pr moted various musician in Israel, including Ravi hankar. From
ptomoting mu icians, Avshalom has focused on playing and com
po ing. Av halom i a virtuo 0 on the qanoun, which originate
from Per ia, and has eventy-five tring. He formed the band in
1991, a fulfilment of a dream to create an original Israeli nsemble
of international calibre.
Emmanuel Mann, bass
Moving to I rael from France in 1982, Emmanuel play a very wide
variety of style, including blue and rock and oriental tyles. He has
adapted hi instrument to be a fretles bas which can play tones not
found in we tern mu ic. He has toured exten ively around the
world.
Miguel Herstein, guitar, banjo
riginally from olorado, U A, Miguel ame to Israel in 1976, and
has performed solo oncert all over the world. He combines east
and we t music tyle together, and ven manage to create new
und fr m his in truments. Miguel works with th Ministry of
ducation in I rael and ha compo ed film mu ic.
Taiseer Elias, oud
Tai e r come from the I raeli Arab village of hfaram, and is
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acknowledged as one of the best oud players in the whole Middle
Eastern region. He also has an MA in Ethnomusicology from the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. With performances around the
world, both in groups and solo, Taiseer has played a very wide range
of styles, from traditional Arabic to Bach and Vivaldi on the violin.
The Israeli composer Menachem Wiesenberg composed a concerto
for oud and orchestra for him.
Nassim Dakwar, violin
From Tarshiha, an Israeli Arab village, Nassim began to learn the
violin at the age of seven, and is now a renowned violinist in the
Middle East. He studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, and
returned to start a musical conservatory in Tarshiha. Nassim's reper
toire includes both western classical and Arab classical music, and he
is the musical director of the Tarshiha Orchestra and Choir of
Classical Arab music. His appearances include television and duca
tional programmes.
Zohar Fresco, riqq (daff) and additional percussion
Born in Israel to Turkish parents, Zohar grew up within a strong
Turkish family tradition. He has played with the few remaining
elderly musicians who practise a distinctive style of riqq playing (a
riqq is a small oriental style tambourine). Zohar is proficient in
many other types of Middle Eastern percussion, and is conversant
with Arab, Indian and Persian playing tyles. Zohar's charismatic
and highly sensitive approach to all the instruments he plays makes
him a much sought after musician.
Monday 30 November, 7.30pm Sternberg Centre for Judaism
The Musical Life of Terezin The Andrusier Ensemble Tamar Andrusier, piano
David Routledge, violin
David Adams, viola
Alice Neary, cello
Presented by the Manor House Society.
The Andrusier Ensemble explores the extraordinary musical life of
Theresienstadt in the ~teroom to Hell' in Nazi-occupied
Czecho lovakia. They perform recently rediscovered music created
in the concentration camp and also masterpieces of the chamber
repertoire which were performed there.
Piano Quartet Movement Gustav Mahler (1860- 1911)
Piano Sonata ideon Klein (1919- 1945)
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Sonatina Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Tanec (Dance) Hans Kd.sa (1899-1944)
Interval
Berceuse Berthold oldschmidt (1903- 1996)
Piano Quartet in G minor Wolfgang Amadeu Mozart (1756-1791)
Theresienstadt
Terezfn, or There ienstadt, wa s entially a tran it concentration
camp where Jew were sent in their thou and between 1941 and
1944 before being transported to an extermination camp. iruated
ixty kilometre north of Prague, it housed up to 60,000 men,
women and children in hou e and barrack builr to accommodate
4,000. In thi prison, where hunger, illne and cruelty urrounded
them, people fought to retain their dignity and to ustain their intel
lecruallife. Through accident or de ign, Terez(n came to hou e ome
of the mo t talented profe ional arti t and mu ician of 1940
Europe. Again t all the odd , they, and fellow pri oner who were
enthusia tic amateurs, found the trength and will to tage theatre
how, cabaret, orche tral concert, 010 and n mble recital, op ra
and jazz. The e performanc in the ghetto gave the community
immea urable plea ure, a they had been denied the right to perform
or attend performance in their hom town.
Lo t for many year, the manu cript were thought to have b n
destroyed during the war. It wa only in 1970 that works began to
come to light and r ceive their fir t performance out ide the erezfn
ghetto. ome large- cale works, uch a Viktor Ullmann' op ra The Emperor of Atlantis and Han Kri a' children' pera Brundibtir,
have received much public recognition in recent year, but many of
the chamber work have remained relatively unknown. It i through
this rarely-heard repertoire that we may gain an in ight into the tal
ent and per onalitie of a whole g neration of zech compo er
who e voice were tragically iJenced.
In this programm the Andru ier n emble will perform exciting
works by ideon Klein and Han Kri a, comp ed in Terezln,
along ide works by Mozart and Dvorak. which were p rform d in
the camp. They al 0 include a piano quartet movement by the ix
teen-year-old Mahler and Berceuse by Berthold old chmidt, wh
had a clo ea ociation with the Man r Hou e ociety.
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The Performers
The Andrusier Ensemble
The Andru ier n emble, formed in 1995, i a Manche ter-ba ed
chamber mu ic group with an unu ual focu : th mu ic of Terez(n,
the wartime concentration camp in zecho lovakia. As fir t prize
winner in the 1996 Anglo- zecho- lovak Tru t ompetition mem
bers of the en mble have given performance in Prague and Bmo,
upported by the Briti h ounci!. Th n emble wa recently
awarded a grant by the Art ouncil through the Art For veryone
Lottery ch m and th n emble' ducati n Project ha been up
ported by such notable mu ician a Yi hudi Menuhin and Roger
Norrington. Recent engagem nt have included performance in
la gow, dinburgh, Manche ter, Bri tol and at the Warwick
Festival.
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Exhibitions
21 October- 4 January 1999 Sternberg Centre for Judaism Imro Weiner Kral (1901- 1978) Painting, prints and watercolour of Brati lava.
Open Mon- Thu 10.00am-5.00pm, Fri 10.00am- l.oopm,
Sun 2-4.00pm
In6 rmation from Julia Weiner,
Manor Hou e ociety: 0181 349 473 1
21 October-1o November Sternberg Centre for Judaism The Jews of Slovakia Phot graph of ynagogue and other place of Jewi h intere t.
Open Mon- Thu 10.00am-5 .00pm, Fri 10.00am- l.oopm,
Sun 2-4.00pm
Informati n from Julia Weiner,
Manor Hou e oci ty: 0181 349473 1
Until 17 January 1999 The Jewish Museum (Camden Town) Exhibition: Coats of Many Colours Print, drawing and original costume illustrating the variety of
clothing worn by Jew around the world ov r th la t 200 year from
Moro co, urkey, Algeria, India, Poland and Pale tin . Profe or
L u Tayl r will give a talk n 0 wme and Prejudice n unday 22
Nov mb r, 2.30pm.
Open Sunday- Thursday 10.00am- 4.00pm, closed Friday,
Saturday, public holidays and Jewish festivals.
Admission £3.00, senior citizens £2.00,
children/students/d isabled £1.50
he Jewi h Mu um ( amden Town) : 0171 284 1997
2-14 November Swiss Cottage Central library Exhibition: Shalom from Far and Near Painting and culpture by hildren and youth from I rael and the
UK in pir d by ource, tradition and theme from th hi tory of
the pe pie of I rael. urator: Bruria Pa ternak, I rael.
Reception: Wednesday 4 November, 5.30- 7.30pm. featuring
the Jewish Heritage Youth Choir, musical director, Vivienne
Bellos (see page 68)
Entrance free. Open Mon and Thursday 10.00am- 7.00pm,
Tuesday and Friday 10.00am- 7.00pm,
Saturday 10.00am- 5.00pm, closed Wednesday
Presented in association with Camden Arts & Tourism. upported by the Israeli Ministry of Education, Culture and .port and The Embassy of Israel.
Sunday 6 December, 7.30pm Hendon Synagogue Heritage Centre Exhibition: Jewish Music and Musicians
pening and talk by Alexander Knapp: The Musical Heritage of the
Jew. xhibition continue until April 1999.
Entrance free (includes refreshments):
donations appreciated
Information: Helen Mas 0181 203 1013
Synagogue Services
Friday 13 November, 6.45pm Belsize Square Synagogue Sabbath Eve Synagogue Service
ervice to commemorate the 60th anniver ary of 'Kristallnacht'.
Mini ter: Rabbi Rodney Mariner, Cantor: Lawrence Fine
hoirmaster: Ronald Rappoport.
Saturday 14 November, 9.ooam St John's Wood United Synagogue Sabbath Morning Synagogue Service
pecial choral ervice for habbat Mevarchin ( abbath of the bless
ing of the New Moon). Mini ter: Dayan I. Binstock, antor: Rev
Moshe Haschel, hoirmaster: Marc Temerlie with th Neimah
inger.
Friday 27 November, 6.30pm North Western Reform Synagogue Sabbath Eve Synagogue Service
eaturing the Kid hoir. Mini ter: Rabbi Charle Emanuel,
Musical irector: Vivienne Bello .
Guided Walks: organised by the Jewish Museum
Sunday 1 November, 10.15am meet outside Aldgate Tube The Jewish East End Tickets £5
Booking, Jewish Museum (Finchley): 0181 349 1143
Sunday 15 November, 1o.15am meet in Guildhall Yard The Jewish City of London Tickets £5
Booking, Jewish Museum (Finchley): 0181 349 1143
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Pictures: Cover illustration (based on a metalwork Hanukkah lamp, Polish c. 1800) and programme illustrations (pp. 9, 13, 20,
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Ignaz Moscheles (p. 10): courtesy of Henry Roche
Fa~ade of the Reform Gemeinde Synagogue in JohannisstraBe, Berlin (p. 16): from The Musical Tradition of the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin, Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora (CD booklet)
Charlotte Salomon (p. 19):
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Marios Papadopoulos (p. 23): © Studio Minas, Nikosia
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Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band (p. 67):
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