Hans Keller Centenary – Belcea Quartet
On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).
£14 – £16
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Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom
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Hans Keller Centenary Celebration
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, CambridgeCambridge University Library (home of the Hans Keller Archive), the Faculty of Music and Clare Hall combine in a day of talks, discussion and music celebrating Hans Keller’s Centenary.
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Yom Hashoah Commemorative Concert
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomTo commemorate the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, the internationally renowned Zemel Choir will be performing in concert at JW3.
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Penny Lecture: Michael Tippett – The Biography by Oliver Soden
Morley College 61 Westminster Bridge Rd, Lambeth, London, United KingdomWriter and broadcaster Oliver Soden introduces his new biography of composer Michael Tippett with a lecture illustrated by live performances from Morley College’s students and tutors.
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Schwitters Spoken Loud and Softly: Florian Kaplick live performance
Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United KingdomIn a special event to mark the closing of Heather Ross’ installation The Loud and the Soft Speakers, musician and performer Florian Kaplick (the main protagonist in Ross’s installation) will give a live performance of Kurt Schwitter’s two most iconic works. This will include a performance of Schwitters’ seminal sound poem The Ursonate (approx 40 mins) and a new interpretation of his famous poem An Anna Blume.
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Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain
Lincoln College, Oxford Turl St, Oxford, United KingdomThis concert will feature some of Egon Wellesz’ works, written before and after his emigration, alongside those of fellow emigrées Ferdinand Rauter, Karl Rankl, Hans Gál and Robert Kahn, who all have recently featured in the research and performance project ‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ at the Royal College of Music.
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Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate performed by Florian Kaplick
Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United KingdomAs part of CAMPLE LINE’s Summer 2019 Edition, Florian Kaplick will perform Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate, a vocal piece consisting of four movements, an overture and finale. Schwitters began writing Ursonate in 1922 and first performed it in 1925 before publishing it in 1932 as ‘Sonate in Urlauten’ (Sonata in Primordial Sounds).
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Migration at the RNCM
Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomMigration has been in the DNA of the RNCM from its earliest roots, when in 1893 the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé realised his vision of founding a Northern conservatoire which became the Royal Manchester College of Music.
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Insiders/Outsiders: The Concert
New North London Synagogue 80 East End Road, London, United KingdomFor this concert, Ensemble ÉMIGRÉ will work with the community at the New North London Synagogue to celebrate the contribution of refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture through music.
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Holocaust Memorial Day – Songs of Arrival
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomAs part of Holocaust Memorial Day, Manchester Jewish Museum’s song-writing group will present an initial performance of songs inspired by the moving stories of Jewish Refugees arriving in Cheetham in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer
RNCM 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomWritten and devised by David Fligg, this theatrical presentation portrays, for the first time, the Czech-Jewish composer Gideon Klein’s pre-war life. Featuring three actors from the MMU School of Theatre, with music by Klein, Mozart, Hindemith and Janáček performed by the Theseus Quartet, it gives an account of artistic and Jewish life in Prague immediately before, and during, the German occupation, and of Gideon’s struggles to survive imprisonment.
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Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning
St John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church 1A Bromyard Road, St Johns, Worcester, United KingdomSt John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church, Worcester Join Ensemble Burletta on a journey from the Vienna of Mozart and Brahms, to the dark days of pre-war Austria and the flight of Jewish-born nationals from the Nazi regime. As part of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, they perform works for clarinet and strings celebrating the musical links between Vienna and […]
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Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomJoin Ensemble Burletta on a journey from the Vienna of Mozart and Brahms, to the dark days of pre-war Austria and the flight of Jewish-born nationals from the Nazi regime.
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Festival of Belonging
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomFrom March 7-14th – featuring one-off events and nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts to examine how we assimilate in new places, explore what makes us feel that we belong and question what happens when we do not.
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Ernst Schoen: Lunchtime Concert
Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London, United KingdomThis lunchtime concert features the recently rediscovered music of the anti-fascist and experimental radio producer and composer Ernst Schoen. Schoen, a former director of Radio Frankfurt and friend of Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and others, escaped to London after being arrested for crimes against the Third Reich in 1934, and continued his writing and activism in exile.
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Ensemble ÉMIGRÉ – A Musical Salon
Virtual EventPremiere of Richard Shaw’s new film about the German-born writer and art collector Ruth Borchard
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Tribute to Robert Kahn
Virtual EventNorbert Meyn and members of his Ensemble Émigré will pay tribute to German-born composer Robert Kahn, who came to the UK in 1938, at the age of 73, and lived in Biddenden Kent until his death in 1951. It was there that he wrote over 1000 piano pieces
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The Ensemble Burletta: Concert
Stockbridge Church 7b Saxe Coburg St, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe Ensemble Burletta will be giving a concert at Stockbridge Church in Edinburgh which includes émigré composer Hans Gál’s Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello.
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Seeking Utopia
The first of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
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Seeking Utopia
The second of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
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Joseph Horovitz Memorial Concert
Leighton House 12 Holland Park Road, Kensington, London, United KingdomOn Tuesday 18 October at 7.30pm, there will be a memorial concert at Leighton House, London, organised by the Kensington and Chelsea Music Society, paying tribute to the eminent Austrian-born British composer and conductor Joseph Horovitz, who sadly died earlier this year. The programme will include his Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano and his String […]
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Seeking Utopia
The third of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
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Seeking Utopia
The fourth of a number of performances, devised for the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth
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Rozsa’s Wish and The Angel of Chomutov: Two New Works by Marilyn Herman
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomMarilyn Herman in conversation about two haunting new compositions relating to her family’s tragic wartime history.
Free – £10