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Out of the Shadows Rediscovering Jewish Music and Theatre Performing the Jewish Archive Out of the Shadows Rediscovering Jewish music and theatre FESTIVAL PROGRAMME Leeds & York - June 2016 Performing the Jewish Archive CONTENTS 03. Welcome 04. Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer Wednesday 1 June, 7:30pm - Holy Trinity Church, Leeds 06. Harlequin in the Ghetto Thursday 2 June - Sunday 5 June, 7:30pm - The Black Box, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York 08. Make Once More My Heart Thy Home: The Choral Music of Hans Gál Sunday 5 June, 3:00pm - Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds Friday 10 June, 7:30pm - National Centre for Early Music, York 11. The Nash Ensemble: Music in the Terezín Ghetto Wednesday 8 June, 7:15pm - Howard Assembly Room, Leeds 14. Mother Rachel and her Children: A Rediscovered Oratorio Thursday 9 June, 7:30pm - Left Bank Leeds 16. Fractured Lives: Music of the Holocaust Tuesday 14 June, 7:30pm - Holy Trinity Church, Leeds Wednesday 15 June, 1:00pm - All Saints Pavement, York 18. New Budapest Orpheum Society Thursday 16 June, 7:30pm - National Centre for Early Music, York Saturday 18 June, 7:30pm - Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds 22. Fate and Fairytales: The Music of Wilhelm Grosz and Zikmund Schul Friday 17 June, 1:05pm - Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds 26. Die Weise Von Liebe und Tod Des Cornets Christoph Rilke Friday 17 June, 6:00pm - Holy Trinity Church, Leeds 27. Looking Forward Through the Past: New Operas from the Jewish Archive Thursday 23 June, 8:00pm - Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds 29. Art Exhibition: Children’s Drawings from the Terezín Ghetto Wednesday 1 June - Monday 20 June - Holy Trinity Church, Leeds 2 Performing the Jewish Archive Performing the Jewish Archive WELCOME It is my distinct honour to welcome you to ‘Out of the Society from Chicago, to piano-cello duo Noreen and Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music and Theatre’. Philip Silver from Maine USA, distinguished pianist The festival takes place across 23 days in the cities of (and popular face in Leeds!) Ian Buckle, and renowned Leeds and York, with a preview performance in April of British harpist Eleanor Hudson. Alongside these groups The Smoke of Home at Clifford’s Tower in York, to make we feature more local and familiar performers: the a total of eight venues, twenty performances, and eight Cassia String Quartet, the Clothworkers Consort of world premieres! Leeds, soprano Kate Rotheroe, flautist Rhian Hughes, Leeds University Union Music Society Chamber Choir, We are grateful for the support of the Arts and and students from the Royal Northern College of Music Humanities Research Council (AHRC), whose award and the universities of Leeds, York, and York St John. of a large grant titled Performing the Jewish Archive (www.ptja.leeds.ac.uk) has enabled this festival to take The Performing the Jewish Archive project (www. place. We also warmly acknowledge the support of York ptja.leeds.ac.uk), under whose auspices this festival Festival of Ideas, the Royal Northern College of Music, is produced, seeks to inject new life into recently Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Makor Leeds, rediscovered musical and theatrical works by Jewish the International Musicological Society, and DARE, artists, many of which were thought to have been lost the unique partnership between Opera North/Howard or have languished in obscurity until recently. Assembly Room and the University of Leeds. At the heart of the project are five international ‘Out of the Shadows’ features cabaret, chamber music performance festivals. Spanning the globe, these and songs from the Terezín ghetto, choral music by festivals kicked off with great success in Madison émigré composers, a powerful choral tableau of Jewish Wisconsin (May 2016), before coming to Leeds suffering and redemption from the Helsinki Jewish and York (April and June 2016), and will continue archives, a programme of newly-composed opera scenes in the Czech Republic (September 2016), Sydney, drawing upon the latest archival discoveries, and much Australia (August 2017), and Cape Town, South Africa more. (September 2017). ‘Out of the Shadows’ in Leeds and York promises to be a memorable and poignant month We are extremely proud to present world premieres of events that celebrate the lives and achievements of of recently discovered pieces by 12-year-old prodigy Jewish artists in times of migration, exile, internment, Josima Feldschuh, and are delighted that members of and often worse. We hope you can join us for as many her family will be present for those performances. We events as possible. will also welcome the descendants of composer Wilhelm Grosz to hear some of his songs for the first time, and are deeply honoured by the participation of a number of Holocaust survivors. A stellar collection of performers brings all this music and theatre to you, from The Nash Ensemble of London Dr Stephen Muir - perhaps the finest chamber ensemble in Europe - University of Leeds and the Grammy-nominated New Budapest Orpheum Principal Investigator,Performing the Jewish Archive 3 Performing the Jewish Archive Wednesday 1 June, 7:30pm Holy Trinity Church, Leeds GIDEON KLEIN: PORTRAIT OF A COMPOSER Written and devised by David Fligg Translations by Hana Trojanová Additional translations by Leeds Interpreting and Translation Services Ltd Mark France (director) Lisa Peschel (dramaturge) Cassia String Quartet: Amy Welch, Tory Clarke, Laurie Dempsey, Joshua Lynch With students from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York: Rachel Astall, Emma Whitworth, Angel Lloyd, Rory Oliver Pre-concert chat: actress and playwright Vanessa Rosenthal hosts an audience with Terezín survivor Zdenka Fantlova, who knew Gideon Klein, and whose book The Tin Ring chronicles her experiences in Terezín. The Music Gideon Klein (1919-1945) - String Trio Gideon Klein - Duo for violin and cello Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - String Quartet in G major K387 (movements 1 & 4) Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) - String Trio No. 1 (1st movement) Leoš Janácˇek (1854-1928) - String Quartet No.1, ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (1st movement) Characters Gideon Klein (1919-1945) Michael Beckerman: Musicologist with special interest in Gideon Klein; currently Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor Eliška (Lisa) Kleinová (1912-1999): one of Gideon’s of Music, New York University. two sisters. Lisa was the only surviving member of the family. She studied piano at the Prague Conservatory, and Otto Grünfeld (1924-2014): heard Gideon perform in became a highly respected piano pedagogue. Terezín. Ilona Kleinová (1889-1944): Gideon’s mother. Pavel Šteˇpán (1925-1998): pianist, knew Gideon in Prague; grandson of eminent piano pedagogue Vilém Alice Herz-Sommer (1903-2014): pianist; knew Gideon Kurz. before and during Terezín. Petr Mayer (dates unknown): journalist; childhood friend Erik Saudek (1904-1963): writer and close family friend. of Gideon. Františka (Francka) Edelsteinová (1917-1944): Gideon’s Ruth Elias (1922-2008): Terezín survivor. girlfriend in Prague; medical student. Ruth Bondy (b.1923): Writer, translator and historian; Hana Žantovská (1921-2004): Czech writer and Terezín survivor. translator, close family friend. Steve Greenberg: USA-based rabbi; currently Senior Irma Semecká (1916-?): Gideon’s girlfriend in Terezín. Teaching Fellow and Director of Diversity Project at CLAL Jan Fischer (1921-2011): actor; knew Gideon in Terezín. – the National Jewish Centre for Learning and Leadership Jan Hanuš (1915-2004): composer; knew Gideon in Zdenka Fantlova (b.1922): Actress; knew Gideon in Prague. Terezín. Author of The Tin Ring; was on Gideon’s transport Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986): Nobel Prize-winning from Terezín to Auschwitz. Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist. Zuzana Ru˚žicˇková (b.1927): harpsichordist; took music theory lessons from Gideon in Terezín. 4 Performing the Jewish Archive Programme Notes In a photo album hidden away in the archives of the imprisoned in Terezín. In Prague in September, we’ll be Jewish Museum Prague, there’s a black and white studio- performing at the Prague Conservatory where Gideon was a photograph of Gideon Klein, showing him as a beautiful and student. There, in a city which still has a number of Terezín chubby baby, perhaps six months old, looking delightfully survivors, the performance will, I’m sure, be especially happy and healthy. Move ahead to Gideon’s childhood, and meaningful. in the same archive, there are fragments of unfinished, and juvenilia, compositions. Later, writing to the 18-year-old The former Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has said: Gideon when he was on holiday in Italy, his mother ends “The best way of curing a victim is to help him cease to her letter by saying that she hopes the “situation” won’t think of himself as a victim.” I can only hope that Gideon get any worse, as UK Prime Minister Chamberlain tries to Klein: Portrait of a Composer can in some way help to ensure broker a settlement between the Czechoslovak government that the memory and legacy of this wonderful musician is and the Germans in the Sudetenland. That same archive not demeaned by his victimisation, but ennobled by his is the repository of the final word we have of Gideon Klein, prodigious creativity. a smuggled-out letter from a slave-labour camp, written Dr David Fligg shortly before his murder. Geographically much closer (Project Consultant, Performing the Jewish Archive) to home, a Liverpool synagogue possesses a Torah scroll which the young Gideon might have read from for his Bar Mitzvah ceremony. The Cassia Quartet It’s easy to forget that archival documents can reveal a The Cassia String Quartet, formed in 2010, was born out life story, and it’s all too convenient to fall into the trap of a passion for the string quartet repertoire. Recipients of viewing archives exclusively as repositories for objective, of the 2013 Musiciens Entre Guerre et Paix Award from hard-nosed academic research.
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