Opening Concert: Creativity and Totalitarianism
Schedule
Sun Jan 22 2023 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Burdon Terrace,Newcastle upon Tyne,NE2 3AE,GB | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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A Mieczyslaw Weinberg dedicated event. His music is one of the 20th century’s greatest hidden treasures!19.00 pre-concert talk about M.Weinberg by Liubov Ulybysheva.
19.30pm Concert.
Weinberg was a Jewish composer from Poland (Warsaw), who fled the Nazis to Russia and lost all his family in the ghettos. He survived by escaping first to Minsk, then Tashkent and eventually to Moscow where he became a close friend and protégé of Shostakovich. Unfortunately, his sufferings did not end there as in Russia he lived in fear through years of persecution, antisemitism and totalitarianism until the end of his life.
Programme:
Old Letters (soprano and piano)
Sonata for two violins
Aria Op.9 and Capriccio Op.11 (string quartet)
Jewish Songs Op.13 (Soprano and piano trio)
Interval
Acacias Op.4 (Soprano and piano)
Piano Quintet
Artists:
Violin: Roman Mints, Natalie Klouda, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola: Dana Zemtsov
Cello: Liubov Ulybysheva
Soprano: Katherine Broderick
Piano: Katya Apekisheva, Yoshie Kawamura
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Where is it happening?
Burdon Terrace,Newcastle upon Tyne,NE2 3AE,GB, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
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