SONG

March 16 – 19, 2023

The CityMusic Chamber Orchestra will perform Osvaldo Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, featuring clarinet soloist Daniel Gilbert. Golijov, a Jewish, Argentine composer who studied at Jerusalem Rubin Academy, describes the work as “a kind of epic, a history of Judaism. It has Abraham, exile, and redemption. The movements sound like they are in three of the languages spoken in almost 6,000 years of Jewish history: Aramaic; Yiddish; and Hebrew.”

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE: WWII ERA COMPOSERS

April 20 – 21, 2023

This concert features the work of Jewish composers who lived during the Holocaust. Gideon Klein’s Partita für Streicher was written while the composer was at Terezin. Survivor Mieczysław Weinberg’s monumental Piano Quintet Op. 18 is the centerpiece of the program, performed by The Pantheon Ensemble. The concert also features works by Erwin Schulhoff, who died at Wurzburg prison during WWII.