May 31, 2006

Shostakovich at 100 Held in LA

Shostakovich at 100 - A Community Concert
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
Valley Beth Shalom, 15739 Ventura Boulevard, Encino 91436

Celebrating the centennial of Russia's leading 20th century composer, The Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles (JMCLA) presents a free community concert. Featuring special guest Joseph Dorfman, concert pianist, composer, and Shostakovich scholar at Buchman-Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv University), the concert will showcase performances by Barry Gold (cello), Mark Kashper (violin), David Kasap (accordion), Hila Plitmann (soprano), Alma Mora (mezzo-soprano), Mark Saltzman (tenor) and Neal Brostoff (piano). Dorfman will perform his "Trio, in Memoriam Dimitri Shostakovich" (1976). Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry," op. 79 (1948), written at the height of Soviet cultural repression and featuring Russian translations of Yiddish folk poetry, will also be performed. For more information, please call (818) 907-7194 or visit www.jmcla.org. Posted by jmwc at May 31, 2006 09:45 PM