Brundibár Arts Festival – Musique d’un Autre Monde, Second Concert – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Brundibár Arts Festival

Website: https://www.brundibarartsfestival.com/

Address:
Newcastle University Kings Hall
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

Musique d’un Autre Monde - Second Concert
Sunday 21st January, 7.30pm, Newcastle University Kings Hall

Following on from the Opening Concert, this second concert once again focuses on Polish composers affected by the Holocaust. The concert will include pieces by:
● Alexandre Tansman, who fled the Nazis for America in the late 1930s.
● Karol Rathaus, who fled Berlin in 1932 on the eve of the Nazis taking power.
● Jerzy Fitelberg, who escaped the Nazis to America via Paris in 1940.
● Mieczysław Weinberg, who fled to the Soviet Union as the war began, but lost his parents and younger sister Esther in the Trawniki concentration camp.

Artists:
Violin - Alexandra Raikhlina, Bartosz Woroch
Viola - Nathan Braude
Cello - Liubov Ulybysheva, Bartholomew LaFollette, Gabriel Waite, Seth Collin
Piano - Katya Apekisheva, Aleksandra Hałat

PROGRAMME

Tansman: La Danse de la Sorciere
Rathaus: Quartet n.4
Fitelberg: Nacht Music op.9

(Interval)

Tansman: Deux Mouvements for Cello Quartet
Weinberg: Piano Trio op.24

Organiser Name

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Other organisation(s) involved

Newcastle University (venue)