Opening Concert: Creativity and Totalitarianism

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

Host or Publisher Brundibár Arts Festival