SECOND GENERATION HOLOCAUST-
SURVIVORS
Natalie Clein, Liubov Ulybysheva (cellos),
The Bell Quartet, Simon Wallfisch (baritone), Daniel Garlitsky, Alexandra Raikhlina (violins),
Sarah Castle (mezzo-soprano)
Music by Olivier Greif (1950-2000), a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. Greif's father was an Auschwitz survivor, and this heavily influenced his music.
6 pm: Pre-concert talk The Festival has invited psychotherapist Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch to give a pre-concert talk on the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation.
Programme:| The Battle of Agincourt for two cellos |
| Quartet No. 3 "Todesfuge'' for string quartet and voice |
| Lettres de Westerbork for voice and two violins |
Cobweb Orchestra Conductor: Andrew Jackson Soloists: Josephine Montgomery (violin), Chrissie Slater (viola)
| E.Schulhoff: five pieces for string Quartet, arrangement for chamber orchestra |
| W.A.Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante |
Introducing repertoire by Holocaust victims to local
amateur orchestras and keen music lovers!
WAR MOTHER
Members of Royal Northern Sinfonia
Mezzo-soprano: Mojca Vedernjak
Theatre Director: Robert Hersey
Cast: Philip Harrison, Grace Allen, Doreen Frankland, Mick Liversidge
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Mesmerising play by Adolphe Nysenholc in which two dead mothers fight over their son: the mother who perished in the Holocaust and the foster mother who hid the child during the war to preserve him from deportation. The play will be preceded by a performance of Miracles de l'enfance by the Swiss composer Albert Moeschinger (1897-1985), based on poetry of Belgian children orphaned during war.
After-play Q&A with Adolphe Nysenholc who will be present at the performance.
DEDICATED TO HANNI BEGG
Jack Liebeck, Alexandra Raikhlina (violins), Philip Dukes (viola), Gemma Rosefield (cello), Katya Apekisheva (piano), Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano)
| W.A. Mozart: Piano Quartet No.1 K478 |
| Robert Kahn: Piano Quartet No.1 |
| Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Piano Quintet Op. 15 |
| Brundibár Arts Festival Special Commission "One/Life" by composer Vanessa Lann |
