[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements--A Yiddish Winterreise for Darfur, Sunday 19 October at The Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, EC1

Victor Bers victor.bers at yale.edu
Tue Oct 7 13:34:31 EDT 2008


MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature
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Oct. 7, 2008
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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:54:04 +0100
From: Mark Glanville <yiddishwinterreise at googlemail.com>
Subject: A Yiddish Winterreise for Darfur,
     Sunday 19 October at The Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market,
     EC1

Just to remind you!

On Sunday, 19 October we will be giving what we consider to be our most
important performance yet. A Yiddish Winterreise is a cycle of songs in
Yiddish performed by Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) and Alexander Knapp
(Piano), which aims to replicate the emotional journey of Schubert's
original, but in a Holocaust context. From the outset it was conceived both
as a way of building bridges and a means of lending support to the victims
of modern genocides.

All the profit from this performance, given under the auspices of UNICEF,
will go to children of refugees from Darfur, a region which continues to be
volatile, five years after the start of the conflict. Over 4 million people
have been affected, and of these 2 million have been displaced. For the 2.1
million children affected, including 630,000 under the age of 5, the
conflict has often meant growing up in difficult conditions in refugee
camps. Fighting between rebel groups, security forces and the Janjaweed
militia continues largely unrestrained. Entire villages have been wiped out
and 400,000 people have been killed.

The concert will be given at the Church of our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth
Market, London EC1, Sunday 19 October at 19.30. Minimum charge £10. We urge
you to attend.

  'The 24-song cycle of  Yiddish folk songs, popular songs and art songs –
half of them arranged by the superb pianist Alexander Knapp, an expert on
Jewish music... lasts 80 minutes and Glanville was masterly in sustaining
its technical and emotional demands.'

Yehuda Shapiro in Opera Now

'Genuine creative originality in performance is rare indeed, but was
certainly manifest in this revelatory recital at Kent House. For once, the
cliché is appropriate: this was a performance to remember for a lifetime. A
CD is planned for later this year, and cannot be too strongly recommended.'

Raymond Fischer in Westminster Quarterly

'Overall it was a musically mezmerizing and beguiling experience.
Glanville's powerful resonant baritone, redolent of years of experience in
leading opera companies such as Opera North, Scottish Opera, and New Israeli
Opera, gained in focus and intensity during the course of the cycle, while
Knapp's accomplished pianism displayed masterly command of colour and line.'

Malcolm Miller in MVDaily.com

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