Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Feb. 3, 2011
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Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ________________________________________________________________ From: Yiddish Winterreise <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:33 AM Subject: A Yiddish Winterreise/Di Sheyne Milnerin - American tour details, February 2011 To: [email protected] '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: [email protected] 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." 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