"LeDor vaDor"
The horn class and Prof. Jascha Nemtsov present a discussion concert with works by Jewish composers
What do we actually know about Jewish teachers and Jewish life in Weimar over the past 150 years? This question was the starting point of a special project to mark the end of the 150th anniversary year of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar.
The public is cordially invited to the discussion concert "LeDor vaDor - From Generation to Generation: Jewish Life and Jewish Teachers in Weimar 1872-2022" on Monday, 28 November at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Admission is free!
The project was initiated by Weimar horn professor Jörg Brückner in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jascha Nemtsov, who teaches the history of Jewish music at the Institute for Musicology Weimar-Jena.
"With this programme, we want to give a very special commemoration and also a very special thanks to the Jewish teachers of our city," Prof. Jörg Brückner explains the motivation.
His colleague Prof. Jascha Nemtsov leads through the concert as a researcher and expert and accompanies the audience as a moderator on a journey through time through 150 years of music academy and city history.
The students of the horn class will provide the musical accompaniment with compositions by Jewish composers. Among others, works by Lev Kogan, Laszlo Rooth, Joachim Stutschewsky and Oded Zehavi will be performed.
There will also be several preludes for solo horn by Yehezkel Braun, the pieces "Lament" and "Ye-Did-Bach" by Yitzhak Yedid and "Three Songs without Words" by Paul Ben-Haim.
The programme presents works by Israeli Jewish composers who are little known or completely unknown in this country.
"I will talk about their biographical backgrounds and the stylistic context of the works. In parallel, the contribution of Jewish educators to the history of our conservatoire will be discussed, as well as the history of Jews in Weimar and Thuringia," explains Prof. Dr. Jascha Nemtsov.
[23 November 2022]