March 12, 2011

Musicians of Lenox Hill Perform an Evening of Romantic Chamber Music

On Thursday, April 28 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo- Kyung Park, will perform
an Evening of Romantic Chamber Music
at Temple Israel of the City of New York,
112 East 75th Street, New York City

The program includes the New York City premiere of the Piano Trio in F Major by Marcel Tyberg, whose works were thought lost in the Holocaust. The program also features Alexander Borodin s String Quartet No.2 in D Major, Frederic Chopin s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante Op. 22 for Solo Piano, and Three Watercolors for Flute, Cello and Piano by Philippe Gaubert. Admission to the concert is free with a suggested donation of $20.

Composer Marcel Tyberg's voice was silenced when he was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In the years immediately before World War II, Marcel Tyberg was a promising young composer whose Second Symphony had been premiered by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Rafael Kubel?k. Prior to being deported, Tyberg entrusted his scores to the family of one of his students. The scores were rediscovered in 2005 in the care of that student, Dr. Enrico Mihich, who is now a leading cancer research doctor living in Buffalo. For more than six decades, Mihich carried the scores with him, trying to find a conductor who would pay attention to them. Finally, in 2005, he found a willing and enthusiastic partner in the music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta. Tyberg's music is extremely powerful, rich and profound, Falletta has declared, and very worthy of performance and recording. She says Tyberg's Trio reveals music of profound beauty, ingenious orchestration and vibrant neo-romanticism .As a result of Falletta's enthusiastic reading of Tyberg's scores, a Tyberg Musical Legacy Fund has been established in Buffalo at the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies. Tyberg's Trio, along with his Symphony No. 3, has been recorded on the Naxos label by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic. The Trio was first performed in Buffalo in 2006. This will be the first performance of the Trio in New York City.

New York Concert Review hailed the Musicians of Lenox Hill as "exemplary throughout" and "extremely impressive, technically and musically . The performers, who are all graduates of The Juilliard School and have won dozens of national and international awards and competitions between them, include Jae-Hyuck Cho, piano, Cornelius Dufallo and Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin, Sean Katsuyama, cello, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola, and Soo-Kyung Park, flute and artistic director.

Cantor Robert P. Abelson of Temple Israel will introduce the Tyberg Trio and tell the incredible story of the loss and rediscovery of Tyberg's music. Cantor Abelson has been a member of the New York City Opera and is a specialist in Yiddish Art Song. He is featured on a recording of Composers of the Holocaust, rated as one of the best recordings of the year by Jewish Week.

The audience is invited to attend a dessert reception with the artists following the concert. The concert, which is an annual event now in its 13th year, is made possible by gift to Temple Israel by the late Muriel Levy in memory of her husband, Dr.Hyman Levy and their son, Jerrold Levy, fulfilling her vision to continue the music she and her husband loved and support the Musicians of Lenox Hill.

Posted by jmwc at March 12, 2011 06:26 PM