January 04, 2005
Jewish Music in London
January 2005 LONDON
Holocaust related events:
January is Holocaust Memorial month in the UK and we have several exquisite musical events that throw a special light and poignancy on those times. See listing sheet and flyers for events at the Barbican, Wigmore Hall and in the Jewish East End. Please book your tickets directly with the venues.
Wednesday 12 January 2005 6.15 – 8.00pm (Holocaust Commemoration)
Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the Third Reich
Soloists and Chamber Groups from the Yehudi Menuhin School, Director of Music: Malcolm Singer, perform music by composers who were banned, exiled or murdered by the Nazi regime. Programme includes: Franz Schreker: Intermezzo; Vilém Tausky: Coventry (string quartet) written on entering the bombed Coventry Cathedral; and ‘The Twin Towers’ (string quartet) written by young pupil Oscar Perks when he was twelve years old, at the time of the atrocity.
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2
Concert free to same-day ticket holders for the exhibition
Open daily 11am -8.00pm (except Tuesday and Thursday closes 6.00pm)
Exhibition: £8 Concessions £6 0845 121 6826
JMI in association with the Barbican Art Gallery
More concerts:
Sunday January 16 "Homage to Szymon Laks"
Sunday January 23 "We want the light"
Sunday January 23 "Songs of Praise"
Wednesday January 26 "Entartete Musik"
Thursday January 27 "Holocaust National Broadcast"
Sunday January 30 "Sephardi Celebration by Candlelight"
Sunday 16 January
Homage to Szymon Laks (1901 – 1983)
Jacqueline Cole piano
Szymon Laks studied in Warsaw and Paris and after deportation, survived though his music – becoming violinist and conductor of the Auschwitz II Men’s Orchestra. This concert will present two UK Premiere’s of Laks works for solo piano written almost immediately after his liberation and return to ‘political exile’ in Paris 1945 and also works by Haas, Chopin, Ullmann, Schul, Messiaen
5pm, Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP, 020 7935 2141
Victor Ullmann Foundation in association with JMI
Sponsors: Clive M Marks FCA and the Polish Cultural Institute, London UK
Sunday 23rd January
We Want the Light A special screening of a film about how music was affected by the Holocaust with an interview with 100 year old Terezin inmate the concert pianist, Alice Herts Sommer. Introduced by film-maker Christopher Nupen.
12:45 - 14:15 Mile End Genesis Cinema, Mile End Road, E1 (nr tube Stepney Green)
Tickets are free but must be reserved. To book: 08700 606 061 or go to www.genesis-cinema.co.uk.
Sunday 23 January BBC1 early evening
Songs of Praise, Watch the Holocaust special edition on BBC 1, featuring The Zemel Choir
Thurs 27 January BBC4
Holocaust National Broadcast, on 27 January from the national event in the presence of The Queen, will include the choir of Great Portland Street Synagogue with Cantor Steven Leas.
Wednesday 26 January
‘Entartete Musik ‘
An evening of dark and subversive cabaret and song, celebrating the lyrics and music of artists who struggled under the shadow of the Third Reich: Spoliansky, Eisler, Tucholsky, Brecht, Hollaender. Written and directed by Jude Alderson, Musical direction Julian Dawes, with Micaela Leon, Jenni Lush, Sarah Niles and Kieran Buckeridge of the Amazonia Music Theatre Company. Last seen at the Drill Hall where it played to capacity houses.
7.00pm Stepney Community Centre, Beaumont Grove, Stepney Green E1
Free tickets 020 7364 7907 or artsevents.lbth@dial.pipex.com
30 January
Sephardi Celebration by Candlelight
Norman Lebrecht, Compère Adam Musikant Chazan and Choir of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation conducted by Maurice Martin, and also featuring Gemma Rosefield, cello with Yvonne Behar Piano. A repeat of the sell-out concert in December,
£20, £15, £7.50
7.30pm Bevis Marks Synagogue 0870 420 3065