Yiddish Dreams & Futures
When:
Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 7:00p -
9:00p
Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 7:00p -
9:00p
Where:
Kresge Auditorium, MIT
48 Massachusetts Avenue W16
Cambridge, MA 02139
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Music, Social Good, University
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/derek-david-at-the-bfnjm-tickets-431251634247?aff=bjmorg
The Boston Festival for New Jewish Music presents Yiddish Dreams & Futures, a portrait concert of composer Derek David, featuring new vocal and chamber works that reflect upon Jewish identity and Yiddish culture in a contemporary landscape. The concert, hosted by MIT Music & Theater Arts in Kresge Auditorium, will feature the full premiere of Derek’s Clarinet Quintet “Oh World, Goodnight” by Del Sol and Andrew Friedman, and the premiere of String Quartet No. 4 “Kaddish” with Verona Quartet. Vocal works will include a performance of Four Yiddish Folksongs featuring members of Nat Seelen and Abigale Reisman Ezekiel’s Wheels, pianist Renena Gutman, and soprano Megan Jones and choral works with A Besere Velt, the world’s largest Yiddish chorus.
Program
Opening Remarks in Yiddish (English supertitles)
Derek David
Four Yiddish Folksongs for soprano, clarinet, violin, and piano
Megan Jones, Abigale Reisman, Nathaniel Seelen, & Renana Gutman
String Quartet No. 4 “Kaddish” *World Premiere
Verona Quartet
“Di arbuzn” (The Watermelons) for chorus
A Besere Velt
Derek David, Music Director
“Kum aroys tsu mir mayn libster" (Come to me, my beloved), a madrigal for chorus *World Premiere
“Yugnt Himn” (Youth hymn) for chorus
-- Intermission --
“Di Firedike Lib” for solo voice
Derek David, voice
Clarinet Quintet “Oh World, Goodnight” *World Premiere
Andrew Friedman, clarinets
Del Sol Quartet
(Co-Commissioned by the Rossini Club and the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization for the Del Sol Quartet and Nicholas Davies)
