10.25.21 GALA! • live & virtual
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Viktor Ullmann at the 50th birthday celebration of Arnold Schönberg.

gala concert • our will to live


"Our will to create was commensurate with our will to live."
— Terezín composer Viktor Ullmann
In the spirit of the Terezín cultural community, we gather to experience the life-giving force of music. We also mark 30 years of TMF—and we launch our major new book, Our Will to Live, featuring the first English translations of all 26 concert critiques written in Terezín by the great artist, scholar—and Nazi target—Viktor Ullmann.

We present music Ullmann wrote about—by Erwin Schulhoff, whom he greatly admired, plus Hans Krása and more—mixed with lively quotes from Ullmann's rich and learned critiques. Underscoring our theme, violinist Nathan Meltzer performs on the legendary "Ames, Totenberg" Stradivarius, a long-silenced instrument whose voice will fill our hall.

program

Mark Ludwig, writer, director, producer.
Live and virtual performances:
 
Yo-Yo Ma
Musical selection to be announced.
 
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Sonata for Solo Violin (1927).
Allegro con fuoco
Andante cantabile
Scherzo. Allegro grazioso
Finale. Allegro risoluto
Nathan Meltzer, violin
 
Robert Dauber
Serenade for Violin and Piano (Terezín 1942)
Nathan Meltzer, violin
Vytas Baksys, piano
 
Sivan Eldar
"The Song About the Child"
A TMF commission; a setting of our LiberArte poem by Arab-Israeli writer Salman Masalha
Coro Allegro directed by David Hodgkins
 
Viktor Ullmann
Arrangements of "Anu Oilm" and "Eliahu HaNavi"
Coro Allegro directed by David Hodgkins
 
Hans Krása
Brundibár Suite, Arr. David Matthews
Annette Miller, narration
Steven Lipsitt, conductor
Mark McEwen, oboe
Linda Toote, flute
Thomas Martin, clarinet
Si-Jing Huang, violin
Catherine French, violin
Mary Ferillo, viola
Mickey Katz, cello
Vytas Baksys, piano
Coro Allegro directed by David Hodgkins
Joined by Michael Gruenbaum, the last surviving member of the original Terezín cast.