Upcoming Concerts in May and June 2014

American Society for Jewish Music &

American Jewish Historical Society

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Prayers for Fellow Prisoners

by Kristian Hernes on a text by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Norway’s Ullern Chamber Choir

Gjermund Brenne, Conductor

Bård Bratlie, baritone; Jennie Brent, cello; composer-pianist Kristian Hernes

Thursday, May 29th at 7 PM

Center for Jewish History

15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

In a program of music by composers active in the Theresienstatdt concentration camp, and who perished during the Holocaust, Norway’s Ullern Kammerkor (Chamber Choir), conducted by Gjermund Brenne, will premiere the “Prayers for Fellow Prisoners,” by Kristian Hernes set to text by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Norwegian Ambassador to the United Nations, Geir O. Pedersen, will introduce the program at the concert.   

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In addition to the New York premiere of ”Prayers for Fellow Prisoners,” the program will include Pavel Haas’s “Four Songs on Chinese Poetry” (1944); Gideon Klein’s “Piano Sonata (1943), and  his Das Angenehme in dieser Welt” and Spruch: Stosset an!  (both 1944);  “Hal’a, Jarden” a  work from Victor Ullmann’s Two Chassidich for women’s voices, and two of the the composer’s Hebrew settings, “Anu olim” and “Eliajahu hanawi.”  In addition, the concert will include two works by Kurt Weill, who escaped his native Germany, fleeing to Paris and then the United States, ”Die Legende vom toten Soldaten’ (1929) and ”Kiddush” (1946).  
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There is no admission charge.  For seat reservations, please e-mail [email protected], or call 212-874-3990.  Tickets may also be reserved at Smarttix.com.
Music in Our Time: 2014
Join us for an extraordinary afternoon of Jewish Music by 20th- and 21st-century composers, featuring works by John Zorn (in honor of the composer’s 60th Birthday), Paul Schoenfield, Stanislav Fridman, Ross Bauer, and Yiddish Art Songs by Lazar Weiner and A.W. Binder, performed by Cantor Robert Abelson, pianist Laura Leon; the Masada Ensemble, and Young Artists from Mannes College The New School for Music.
Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 3PM

Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

TICKETS: 212.868.4444, or www.smarttix.com
  $18 General Public
  $12 AJHS, ASJM and CJH Members
  $9 Seniors and Students

More information:  www.ajhs.org, or www. jewishmusic-asjm.org


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