2010-2011 Season

In the 2010-2011 season, Pro Musica Hebraica presents the award-winning ARC Ensemble of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto, returning with an all-new program devoted to musical responses to World War II. They feature works written during the war by three distinctive composers with three very different fates: Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984), who left Germany for Jerusalem, where he became the father of Israeli classical music; Karel Berman (1919-1995), who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; and Walter Braunfels (1882-1954), whose exile from German musical life led to one of the greatest forgotten chamber masterpieces for piano quintet, now receiving its American premiere.

In the spring concert, British bass baritone Mark Glanville and pianist Alexander Knapp present the American premiere of the extraordinary song cycle, “A Yiddish Winterreise.” This stunningly original musical exploration of the Holocaust reimagines Schubert’s famous German song cycle as a haunting journey through Yiddish folk songs arranged in elegant classical form.

More details about the concerts are here.

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