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Jascha Nemtsov
Concert/Lecture
Jewish Music in
the Works of East-European Jewish Composers
September 22, 2009, 4
pm – Warburg Institute, Lecture Room
Well into the 19th Century, Jewish music went largely unnoticed in
European
culture or was treated dismissively. Russian Jewish composers wrote the
first chapter of musical Judaica. At the start of the 20th Century, a Jewish
national school of music was established in Russia; this school later
influenced the work of many composers in Western Europe. Since the
Holocaust, Jewish music is understood less as folklore; it has become a
political and moral symbol.
Programme
Lazare
Saminsky Hebrew Fairy tale, Danse rituelle du
Sabbath (1882–1959)
Juliusz Wolfsohn Two
Paraphrases on Old Jewish Folk Tunes
(1880–1944)
Joseph Achron from
the Children Suite
(1886–1943)
Alexander Weprik Three
Folk Dances
(1899–1958)
Mieczysław Weinberg from
the cycle Children’s Notebooks
(1919–1996)
Viktor Ullmann Variations
and Fugue on a Hebrew Folk Song
(1898–1944)
Joachim Stutschewsky Four Jewish Dance Pieces
(1891–1982)
Jascha Nemtsov, born in 1963 in Magadan (Russia). Studied piano at the Leningrad
Conservatory (Concert Diploma with honors). In Germany since 1992. Apart from
the classical and romantic piano repertoire, several concert programs with
works by Jewish and Russian composers of the 20th century.
Numerous radio recordings and by now 25 CDs as soloist and with partners
David Geringas (violoncello), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Kolja Blacher,
Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Ingolf Turban (violin), Chen Halevi (clarinet), the
Vogler Quartet and others. His CDs have been awarded many distinctions like
“Audiophile Reference – The Best of 200”, “Klassik heute Empfehlung”,
“CHOC - Le Monde de la Musique”, “Recording of the Month (MusicWeb)”, “Disc
of the Month April 2006” (BBC Music Magazine), or the German Record Critics
Prize (2007). Jascha Nemtsov is a member of the School of Jewish Studies at
the University of Potsdam. In 2004 he earned his doctorate with a
dissertation on “The New Jewish School in music”. His postdoctoral thesis
treats “The Zionism in music: Jewish music and the national idea” (2007).
The concert/lecture which is generously sponsored by the Kessler Foundation (London) will be free of charge and open to the public.
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