[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--A Yiddish Winterreise/Di Sheyne Milnerin - American tour details
Victor Bers
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Thu Feb 3 21:45:09 EST 2011
Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements
Feb. 3, 2011
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From: Yiddish Winterreise <yiddishwinterreise at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Subject: A Yiddish Winterreise/Di Sheyne Milnerin - American tour details,
February 2011 To: yiddishwinterreise at gmail.com
'A Yiddish Winterreise' Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) Alexander Knapp
(Piano) 7.30, 10 February at The Kennedy Center, Washington DC
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=RLPMC&mos=17
'Di Sheyne Milnerin - A Yiddish 'Die Schne Mllerin' Mark Glanville
(Bass-Baritone) Alexander Knapp (Piano) 7.30, 14 February at Symphony
Space NY NY
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6436-di-sheyne-milnerin-a-yiddish-die-schone-mullerin
'A Yiddish Winterreise' Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) Alexander Knapp
(Piano) 7.30, 16 February at Symphony Space NY NY
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6437-a-yiddish-winterreise-elegy-for-a-vanished-world
'A Yiddish Winterreise' Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) Alexander Knapp
(Piano) 3.00, 20 February at the Chicago Cultural Center
* Two new cycles, forged by Mark Glanville out of songs from the
traditional Yiddish repertoire, many in Alexander Knapp's sensitive,
original arrangements, taking Yiddish folk songs and turning them into
classic German Lieder, without stripping them of their original identity
and beauty.
* Schubert's classic love poet is re-imagined - in 'A Yiddish Winterreise'
as a Yiddish wedding singer fleeing the burning city of Vilna, in 'Di
Sheyne Milnerin' as an old Jewish miller enamoured of and rejected by the
beautiful miller girl, Reyzele.
* The songs celebrate the richness of Jewish life and culture with love
and humour while exploring the depths of Jewish tragedy and the loss of a
monumental European Jewish civilization.
* For further information and a copy of the CD of 'A Yiddish Winterreise'
released on the Naxos label, please respond to:
yiddishwinterreise at gmail.com
PRESS:
"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 - was first performed on Holocaust Memorial Day
2007. This journey lasts a potentially gruelling 80 minutes and Glanville
was masterly in sustaining its technical and emotional demands." Yehuda
Shapiro in Opera Now
"An admirably restrained and novel exploration of Yiddish song." John
Steane in The Gramophone
"This is profoundly beautiful music, worthy of the high accolades that are
starting to stream in. You owe it to both yourself and your heritage to
hear it." Charlie Bertsch in Zeek Magazine
"For once, the clich is appropriate: this was a performance to remember
for a lifetime." Raymond Fischer in Westminster Quarterly
"There was a particularly high level of emotional engagement for the
audience, with a little laughter at Hot a yid a vaybele, stunned silence
at the harrowing Un a yingele vet zey firn, and not a few tears shed
during the final Kaddish." Carla Finesilver in Opera Britannia
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