Thu 4/20 & Fri 4/21 @ 7PM
CityMusic Cleveland’s next two concerts are dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance, taking place in two very different settings: Thursdays in Beachwood’s imposing Tempe-Tifereth Israel haunted by the spirits of Holocaust survivors (a few undoubtedly still members) and Fridays in the crafty, art- and loom-filled space of Praxis Fiber Workshop in North Collinwood’s Waterloo Arts District.
In both places, the five-musician Pantheon Ensemble will play some relatively obscure music by early 20th-century Jewish composers, including Partita für Streicher by Czech pianist/composer Gideon Klein who perishing in an Auschwitz subcamp in 1945 at the age of 25 with his manuscripts saved by a friend; Austrian-American film composer Erich Korngold’s Garden Scene; Two Jazz Etudes by Czech composer Erwin Schuhoff who died of tuberculosis in the Nazi prison; and Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s Piano Quintet Op. 18, arranged by Mathias Baier. (Weinberg escaped the camps by fleeing to the Soviet Union where he lived out his life and was a close friend of Shostakovich.) The program also includes the familiar Schindler’s List Theme by one of the best-known film and TV composers, John Williams, as arranged by the Brooklyn Duo.
The musicians include Pantheon ensemble violinists Mari Sato and Masha Andreini; violist Yael Senamaud-Cohen; cellist Mingyao Zhao; and bassist Tracy Rowell; and joining them on piano Elizabeth DeMio.
As with all CityMusic concerts, both are free and open to all. Get more info here.