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Sunday, April 2, 12:30 & 2:00pm Tubby the Tuba, the musical story of a loveable tuba and Critters, Before the concert, the children may climb into the Ark and meet Noah and his animal "critters."
Monday, May 15, 7:30pm
"Zina Schiff is a remarkable violinist with a huge range of color and nuance." —American Record Guide. Mary Barranger, staff pianist of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra will accompany. We Were In Terezin: Theresienstadt Ancillary Program
May 15–June 4
Exhibit in the Gotthelf Art Gallery. Free Admission IRC and Music Festival VIP Reception Wednesday, May 17, 7:30pm Join us for a special discussion on Varian Fry, by one of those Fry rescued, as well as highlights of the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in San Diego. Co-sponsored by the International Rescue Committee
Thursday, May 18 @ the Stephen and Mary Birch North Park Theatre
Additional performances of Malashock Dance Company's FATHOM will be presented at the Stephen and Mary Birch North Park Theatre, and at the Japanese American Cultural Center in Los Angeles. In alliance with The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, Malashock Dance Company, San Diego Master Chorale
Dmitri Shostakovich, the great 20th century Soviet composer, felt a kinship and solidarity with the Jews. Although not Jewish himself, he wrote a stunning song cycle for three singers and piano using Russian translations of Jewish folk poems. From Jewish Folk Poetry, op. 79 will be performed with the original Yiddish poems as reset by Israeli musicologist Joachim Braun. To appreciate Shostakovich's Jewish music inspiration, the program will open with a bouquet of Yiddish folk songs accompanied by accordion. A Piano Trio in memory of Shostakovich by the Odessa-born Israeli composer Joseph Dorfman concludes the program. In alliance with The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Saturday, May 27, 8:00pm
Master storyteller, singer, composer and classical guitarist, Danny Maseng takes An intergenerational family story told thru music. Ancillary Program
The Cuarteto Latinoamericano is a unique voice in classical music, bringing the works of Latin American composers to the public. The Grammy-nominated ensemble, consisting of Saul and Aron Bitran, violins, Javier Montiel, viola, and Alvaro Bitran, cello, is the Quartet-in-Residence at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Gershwin, their program will feature Yiddishbbuk by the Argentine composer, Osvaldo Golijov. In alliance with Mainly Mozart and The Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival
Thursday, June 22, 6:15pm Enjoy life with a spirited concert of Klezmer music and Israeli dancing music on a summer solstice night at Balboa Park. Free Admission In alliance with "Twilight in the Park" |
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San Diego Center for Jewish Culture Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS 4126 Executive Drive · La Jolla, CA 92037 858.457.3030 · www.lfjcc.org |
Zina Schiff, a Heifetz prodigy, will play a program modeled after recitals in Terezin (Theresienstadt) with selections from the classics and Jewish composers. Schiff has received rave reviews as soloist with major orchestras in Eastern Europe, Israel and America. Among her recital venues are London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall and Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her expressive playing was selected by Maurice Jarre for his soundtrack on the MGM movie The Fixer. Two of her ten acclaimed CDs are with the Israel Philharmonic and she has a trilogy of CDs devoted to Jewish music.
Varian Fry Assignment: Rescue, a traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, depicts the work of Varian Fry, the first American honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. A Harvard graduate working as an editor, Fry had managed to save 2,000 political and intellectual refugees from Nazi-controlled Vichy France, including Max Ernst, Gustav Mahler's wife Alma, Hannah Arendt and Marc Chagall.
FATHOM: The Body As Universe is a collaboration bridging the disciplines of dance, visual art and music. Blending ancient Buddhist and Jewish beliefs, FATHOM expresses the mystical language of the universe as spoken through the microcosm of the human body. Created by choreographer John Malashock (San Diego), Japanese-born artist Junko Chodos, and Israeli composer Ariel Blumenthal.
Wednesday, May 24, 7:30pm
Tuesday, May 30, 7:30pm
