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Tonight’s concert is Institute of Music and San Francisco Moscow. Wolfram has appeared as Jewish Kaleidoscope sponsored in part by the Conservatory of Music. Koswer is the a soloist with many of the greatest Thursday, September 1O, 2O2O / 7:3O PM Consulate General of first cellist to record the complete music orchestras of the world and has Israel to the Midwest. for solo cello of Alberto Ginastera, developed a special reputation as for the Naxos label. the rare concerto soloist who is also It is being broadcast equally adept as a recitalist and The evolving musical world of live on nscmf.org and chamber musician. His benchmark presented without an Vadim Gluzman, violin Jewish and Israeli music recordings for the Naxos label intermission. Gluzman’s extraordinary artistry includes four CDs of Franz Liszt’s brings to life the glorious violinistic Opera Transcriptions. tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Gluzman appears with Ouverture Gluzman / Shterenberg / Yoffe major orchestras around the Darius Milhaud Ilya Shterenberg, clarinet world such as the as the Berlin Suite for violin, clarinet and Divertissement Principal clarinetist of the San Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, piano, op. 157b Jeu Antonio Symphony and Principal Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Introduction et Final clarinetist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestra, Shterenberg balances a Leipzig Gewandhaus, London busy career as an orchestral musician, Maurice Ravel Kaddish Kosower / Wolfram Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Angela Yoffe, piano chamber music performer, and a Two Hebrew Melodies for L’Enigme Eternelle Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Pianist, producer, and educator, soloist. He has been featured as a cello and piano Royal Concertgebouw alongside Angela Yoffe, is widely admired soloist with the San Antonio and today’s leading conductors, for her dazzling musicianship and Charleston symphonies, and as Christoph von Dohnanáyi, passion for music education. Born in principal clarinetist with Cincinnati George Gershwin Allegro ritmato e deciso Shterenberg / Wolfram Riccardo Chailly, Tugan Sokhiev, Riga, Yoffe is founder and executive and Seattle Symphonies. Ilya has Three preludes for clarinet Andante con moto e poco rubato Michael Tilson Thomas, Andrew director of The Music Makers, an collaborated with some of the most and piano Allegro ritmato e deciso Davis and Neeme Järvi, Osmo organization that produces Chicago’s notable conductors of our time, Vänskä and Michail Jurowski. annual North Shore Chamber including Roger Norrington, Seiji Music Festival, the Music Makers Ernest Bloch Vidui Gluzman / Yoffe Ozawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Daniel International, and the Arkady Fomin Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Niggun Barenboim, George Solti, Pierre Scholarship Fund. Ms. Yoffe performs Chassidic Life Simchas Torah Boulez and others. as a chamber musician and recitalist around the world and records exclusively for BIS Records. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Gluzman / Yoffe “Figaro” concert transcription after Rossini’s Barber of Seville Mark Kosower, cello Described as “a virtuoso of staggering prowess” by the Cleveland Plain Lera Auerbach Gluzman Dealer, Mark Kosower is principal T’filah (prayer) for solo violin cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra, William Wolfram, piano former principal of the Bamberg American pianist William Wolfram Symphony in Germany, an active was a silver medalist at both the Avner Dorman World Premiere Performance Yoffe / Gluzman / Shterenberg / recording artist and orchestral soloist, William Kapell and Naumburg Dancing with the Torah at Commissioned for the North Shore Kosower and President of the Cleveland Cello International Piano Competitions, Mount Meron Chamber Music Festival by Society. He has been a member and a bronze medalist at the Joseph and Minna Pirogovsky of the faculties at the Cleveland Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Dancing with the Torah at Mount Meron (1924), oil on canvas

Reuven Rubin (1893–1974). The gifted Romanian-born Israeli painter is celebrated as a pioneer in the Israeli art world. His radiant paintings explore the biblical landscapes of his home in Israel and its folk history. nstage/offstage in-person and livestream concerts Avner Dorman, composer Dorman writes music of intricate PROGRAM NOTE | Dancing with the Torah at Mount Meron craftsmanship and rigorous technique, www.nscmf.org “I have always deeply admired the works of Israeli painter Reuven Rubin. When expressed with a soulful and singular ZOFO duo asked me to write a piece inspired by a painter’s work, I naturally voice. A native of Israel now living looked through some of Rubin’s paintings and was particularly struck by Dancing in the USA, he draws upon a variety with the Torah at Mount Meron. It captures an undeniable essence of Jewish of cultural and historical influences, culture and tradition; the dancers’ faces are quite melancholic and even painful resulting in music that affects an 2O2O–2O21 SEASON in their expressions, and yet they exhibit so much devotion and love for the emotional impact while exploring Torah. The painting also embodies the ecstatic nature of Jewish dancing, new territories. His music utilizes while presenting a beautiful sketch of the landscape of the area around Mount an exciting and complex rhythmic Meron. My piece is a reaction to this painting — an interpretation of the image vocabulary, as well as unique timbres in sound. I did not try to portray any specific visual elements in the music, but and colors in orchestral, chamber, rather to capture the mood, the energy, the joy, the tears, and the love I see in and solo settings. Recent commissions this picture. The form takes some of its inspiration from traditional Jewish song include major works for the Boston and dance, starting slowly and mournfully, gaining momentum over time, until Symphony, Chicago Symphony ultimately reaching an ecstatic state. — Avner Dorman Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic.

Very special thanks to our generous onstage/offstage series sponsors: The accompanying exhibition of Anonymous John Carey Michael Khomutov several works by visual artists Mark & Idalyn Audas Oneida Cramer PianoForte Chicago Samuel Ackerman and Yosl Bergner Christine Aznavoorian Shelly Cyprus Joseph & Minna Pirogovsky is provided tonight courtesy of Anatoly & Anna Belkin Janet Fomin Gene & Marina Schloss Jeffrey L. Kraft Fine Art, dealer and Karen Bendok Sophie Fomin Fred & Nina Shterenberg appraisal of fine art and Judaica. Dr. Neil Breslau Esther Gitelzon Gilad Sheba jlkraftfineart.com Brueckner Family Foundation Flora & Yan Katsnelson Waltraud Szeryng

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