Estelle Abraham of Washington DC’s New World Radio (WUST AM 1120) interviewed Jascha Nemtsov this morning. You can listen to the program here (the interview starts about a third of the way into the program).
Pro Musica Hebraica will present Nemtsov and his musical friends in the November 3rd concert: The Last Romantics: Jewish Composers of Interwar Europe.
The upcoming world premiere of a new arrangement of my father’s “Hebrew Suite” by Pro Musica Hebraica calls to mind and heart a number of reflections. My father is present in this music. Listen, and you will hear him: his convivial romanticism, his clarity of mind, his loving soul. He was a very loving and lovable person, though his passion was greatest for three things: his music, his Jewish identity, and his family.
The Los Angeles Times reports on rarely heard Yom Kippur music by Arnold Schoenberg set for new release:
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Pro Musica Hebraica is delighted to share that the Northern English premiere of A Yiddish Winterreise will be performed Sunday, October 9th at the prestigious Leeds Lieder Festival, a biennial festival of art song. In A Yiddish Winterreise, Schubert’s classic love poet is reimagined as a Yiddish wedding singer fleeing the burning city of Vilna, who celebrates in song the richness of Jewish life and culture and explores the depths of Jewish suffering through time. The performance takes Jewish folk songs and turns them into lieder without stripping them of their original identity and beauty. British bass baritone Mark Glanville and pianist Alexander Knapp presented the American premiere of the extraordinary song cycle in Pro Musica Hebraica’s Spring 2011 concert.
Simon Wynberg writes in the current issue of Commentary about the hijacking of Terezín and Verdi’s Requiem:
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