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Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] of Light) featuring Israeli cellist, Kristina Reiko Cooper, who, incidentally, performed at the work’s première and, indeed, came up with the idea for the work. Singing in Yiddish, the quartet of outstanding vocalists was admirably led by German soprano, Johanna Ihrig, who harbours a strong, richly textured wide-ranging voice, well supported by Nora Steuerwald (contralto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor) and Steven Klose (bass) complemented by the ‘poetic whispering voices’ (Flüsterstimmen) of Eliana Pliskin Jacobs, Sasha Lurje, Daniel Kahn and Karsten Troyke. Dating from 2022 and commissioned by Yad Vashem (the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem) and the American Society for Yad Vashem, the work received its première on 5th November 2022 by the Kaunas State Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir under Constantine Orbelian in the Philharmonic Hall in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian academic and cultural life. Inspired by the heroism of Chiune […]
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2023-07-27 14:17:22
San Francisco Opera Orchestra has chosen Evan Kahn... The post San Fran changes principal cello after 49 years appeared first on Slippedisc.
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