Jewish Culture Day on the South Bank
updated 29 October 2006
Sunday 26 November, 2006
10.00am - 10.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, South Bank Centre
Patron: Don Black
Six joyous events to celebrate 350 years of Jewish music in Britain.
1. Talk: 350 years of British Jewish music
2. Concert: Voices of Sepharad
3. Jewish Schools Choir Festival
4. Tribute to The King of Lampedusa
5. Classical Concert: The Song of Songs
6. Borsht to Blighty: Popular Musical Theatre Songs
Presented by the Jewish Music Institute and Central Synagogue. Supported by the Jewish Chronicle.
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Short description of the six events:
1. 350 years of British Jewish music
10.00am - 12.00 Riverside Room
An Illustrated talk by Dr Malcolm Miller surveying the creativity
of Jewish musicians and the music used for Jewish worship and celebration
over the last 350 years £5
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2. Voices of Sepharad
12.30pm - 1.45pm Purcell Room
Songs, Melodies and Memories of Jews from Spain
Gemma Rosefield cello
Adam Musikant baritone
Yvonne Behar piano
Traditional Sephardi melodies arranged for cello, songs from Sephardi
liturgy, readings from Memoirs of Michel Behar from Istanbul, founder
member of Holland Park Synagogue and classical cello masterpieces: Bruch's
Kol Nidre and Bloch's Prayer. £10 /£8
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3. Jewish Schools Choir Festival
2.30pm - 4.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall
Stephen Glass presenter composer arranger conductor
.
The next generation
from ten of Britain's leading Jewish Primary Schools present their own
selections and premiere
together new songs specially written for the 350th anniversary by Stephen
and Myrna Glass, expressing what it means to be Jewish in Britain today
All seats £5 (children £3)
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Supported by NM Rothschild's and the Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust
4. The King of Lampedusa
5.30pm - 6.45pm Purcell Room
An appreciation in words and film of the legendary
Yiddish play which
opened in 1943 and ran for an unprecedented 200 performances with Anna
Tzelniker as the young female lead. Introduced by Rosalind Gold the programme
will feature film of Anna Tzelniker celebrating the 60th anniversary
and a specially made film by Oscar winning documentary film-maker Arnold
Schwartzman OBE, about the play and the real-life incident it was based
upon: An East End tailor's cutter, Sidney Cohen, a pilot during WWII, made
a forced landing on the tiny island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Sicily.
The entire Italian garrison surrendered to him thinking they had been invaded.
Cohen's crew nicknamed him 'The King of Lampedusa'. In the play this
became an allegory of a homeland for the Jewish people. £10, £8
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5. The Song of Songs
7.45pm - 9.45pm Purcell Room
Gwendolen Burton (soprano), Eliot Alderman (tenor), Benjamin Seifert (baritone),
Michael Mizgailo-Cayton (piano), The Zemel
Choir, The Wallace
Chamber Ensemble, Benjamin Wolf (piano and conductor)
Includes: Songs
by 19th 20th and 21st century Jewish composers and the world premiere
of The Song of Songs by renowned octogenarian composer Kyla Greenbaum
and the first performance of Shofar Concertino for the 350th anniversary
by Malcolm Miller as well as excerpts from Samuel Alman's Yiddish Grand
Opera King Ahaz not performed since 1912 and arias and choruses from
Al Grand's Yiddish version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. £10, £8
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Supported by Pearson plc
6.
8.00pm - 10.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall
Take a journey through the 20th Century with a cavalcade
of songs from
the Yiddish Theatre, via Broadway and Tin Pan Alley to the West End of
London. Performed by outstanding West End stars, Melinda Hughes,
Gina Murray, Steven Leas, Loren Geeting with Yiddish Singer Hilda Bronstein
and the Children of the Sylvia Young Theatre School. Directed by Robert
Dallas with top West End band featuring Stewart Curtis on reeds and musical
director Tansy Aked.
Hear the iconic hits of Brits such as Lionel Bart, Vivian Ellis. Don
Black, Herbert Kretzmer and Mitch Murray; and Americans the likes of
Rogers & Hammerstein, Kander & Ebb, Harry Warren and George Gershwin
interspersed with memorable medleys and melodies of the Yiddish Theatre
on 42nd Street
£27.50 / £22.50 / £17.50
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show (except Jewish Schools Choir Festival)
Presented by JMI and Central Synagogue
Supported by the Jewish Chronicle
