Millennium Awardees take Jewish music to new places and communities.
JMI Millennium Awards have been able to kick-start a number of innovative and energetic Jewish music projects across the country. Over 50 grants to individuals have enabled musicals and oratorios to be written, performances and workshop to be held, books and articles to be written based on new research, educational websites to be set up and recordings to be made and distributed that will enrich the lives of the awardees themselves and the public that they serve.
All the awardees have been able to have expert consultants to advise them, undertake special training and fulfil lifetime ambitions. There have been klezmer workshops as far afield as Totnes, Manchester and Sheffield, Jewish Choral music in Cardiff and musical plays and performances in London. Many far-reaching educational schemes have been created and traditional music has been reinterpreted to engage an audience of today. Awardees have used Jewish music as a bridge to greater understanding and tolerance between the diverse communities in multicultural Britain.
Through all these projects knowledge of and interest in Jewish music has been greatly enhanced. This partnership with the Millennium Commission with funds from The National Lottery, has considerably reinforced JMI’s mission of celebrating, preserving and developing of the living heritage of Jewish music for the benefit of all.
We list the award winners below and tell you something about their projects. There are links to their own websites where they have them, or to more pages here. Please feel free to contact any of our award winners by emailing them directly or through JMI email. They will be happy to hear from anyone who may want to have them perform or speak about their projects. Sadly there is no more Millennium funding and JMI is seeking further funding to be able to continue to help individuals and groups with their wonderful projects in Jewish music.
Nik Ammar: Children's Klezmer Workshops
A series of workshops in synagogue Sunday schools and Jewish schools for children aged 8 and 15, targeting synagogues as a starting point and later also in non-Jewish environments
Henry Atterbury: Beethoven and Suppressed Composers
Henry has planned a series of eight free lunchtime recitals given by outstanding internationally known professional pianists. Each has chosen to couple a major work of Beethoven with music by a European composer who suffered or died as a result of Nazi or Soviet oppression. By having Beethoven, a champion of freedom in the arts, as the lynch pin, Henry Atterbury demonstrates how during Beethoven's lifetime events occurred which influenced the participation of Jewish composers in the music scene of the time. These were the French Revolution's declaration of equal rights to all peoples (1789) and the Emancipation of the Jews - which for the first time threw down the constricting walls of ghetto and Shtetl, thus setting Jewish musicians free to train as composers and instrumentalists in conservatories and universities alongside their Christian brethren. hwatterbury[at]onetel.net.uk
Helen Beer: Yiddish Theatre Production with Music 'Jacob Jacobson'
Helen (Khayele) Beer presented the world premiere of a Yiddish play in June 2002. She mounted an outstanding full scale production at the Bloomsbury Theatre with costumes, sets, music and lighting. The award also gave Helen the opportunity of engaging the Livnat brothers to create an original score for the play. Helen, who teaches Yiddish at UCL worked with students and professionals and aims to bring Yiddish culture to the awareness of audiences who are not familiar with it as yet. A special free matinee was held for Yiddish speakers from several old aged homes. helenb[at]appleonline.net
Viv Bellos: Sing to the Lord: How to improve and inspire your choir
Sacred music will ring out with renewed vigour and joy after Stephen Glass will teach, instruct, inspire and conduct singers of all backgrounds in the traditional Synagogue music of the second millennium. vivienne.bellos[at]btinternet.com
Robert Berman: Traditional melodies for Sabbath Services
Robert is researching, cataloguing and recording traditional Jewish melodies used in synagogues in the UK and USA and compiling them into a pack to be used by small congregations for their weekly service welcoming of the Sabbath. This will include a CD with a manuscript booklet and will be given free of charge initially to the benefit of his own Bedford community. It will then be available for other communities
Michael Bochmann: The Bochmann Quartet
Michael Bochman has commissioned a new String Quartet in a Jewish style from the composer Keith Burstein. The Quartet was performed at the Bridewell Theatre, London EC4 before an enthusiastic audience. The aim of this project was to create and perform a new work with Jewish music influences, which will add to and enrich the string quartet repertoire and be available to the general public for future performances bochmann[at]ukonline.co.uk
Julie Brown: Music and Racial Politics
Julie brought five international specialists to the UK to a conference held at Senate House London to consider the subject of Music and Racial Politics, a subject still relevant today. The speakers were experts in the field of Musicology, Philosophy, black American music, Jewish and German studies. The long-term lasting benefit of this project will be a book, which will contain the contributions of the five speakers alongside those of other speakers and which will be available in libraries. Their contributions are likely to inspire further interest, both scholarly and cultural, on the important question of how the racial imagination co-opts music to its ends. julie.brown[at]rhul.ac.uk
Leo Bryant: Traditional Jewish Klezmer Music CD
Together with input of North African Muslim musicians Leo Bryant has produced and launched a CD of his own compositions, bringing together Jewish music and the music of some Islamic friends. His music combines traditional Jewish Klezmer music with contemporary dance music, The launch at SOAS student union was a very popular success, bringing an ancient music right up to date and making it relevant for a contemporary young audience of all cultures. leo_bryant[at]yahoo.co.uk
Josephine Burton: Linking European Jewry through residency, workshops and performance
The project will bring together artists from across Europe, encouraging musicians to share their experiences of being Jewish musicians in the 21st century in Europe and collaborate to create new performance and workshops with their own local and Jewish influences. This project will also tie in with the objectives of the European Community Council of enabling cultural managers with good management capacities to better integrate their regional action - which links identity, culture and economy - in a European perspective and to insert European projects in regional cultural development policies. Josephine[at]yadarts.com
Melanie Challenger: Living with Anne
Melanie is writing a libretto of an opera on Anne Frank. She has permission to use the original diary in her text and has commissioned the young composer James Whitbourn to write the music. The opera, to be called Annelies, will be premiered as part of the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth, and will aim to promote tolerance through this unique diary. The opera will run along side a series of educational activities, including a youth production of Bernard Kops' Dreams of Anne Frank, and a 'Dear Diary' collection of children's war diaries by Zlata Filipovic.
Sue Cooper and Ros Hawley: Manchester Celebrates Klezmer!
This project by these two energetic klezmer artists, aims to inject new life into Jewish music in Manchester by increasing awareness of klezmer in the whole community, providing workshops and masterclasses for musicians, developing repertoire and helpful resources for all. suecoopernewmills[at]hotmail.com
Ilana Cravitz: A Fidl Kapelye for the UK
A fidl kapelye is a Jewish string ensemble of the type which existed throughout Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This project will aim at reconstructing such an ensemble. Ilana will study traditional Klezmer string-playing techniques from experts in London and New York. She will teach a group of string players and will also explore the relationship between Yiddish dance and instrumental music.
Lloica Czackis: Tangele, the double life of Yiddish tango
Yiddish tango live in concert will be the culmination of Lloica’s research and presentation, as an example of how cultural enrichment can result from immigration.
Yiddish tango has faced different manifestations around the world, from songs written in Buenos Aires by Eastern-European Jews, to the Ghettos and Concentration Camps during WWII, and even beyond. This project aims to explore Yiddish tango as an example of cultural merging. The music will be arranged and performed, together with Lloica, by Gustavo Beytelmann, an Argentinian composer and pianist based in Paris. Both Lloica and Gustavo’s ancestors are Jews who emigrated to Argentina. Activities will include workshops for school-children, and the final show will recreate the magical and vibrant environment in the Buenos Aires & Eastern European cabarets from 1920s to 1940s. mezzo[at]lloicaczackis.com
Vivien Ellis: The Jewish heritage in London's East End through song and storytelling.
Vivien has given young people and Jewish elders in the East End of London the opportunity to explore and celebrate the music of Jewish heritage in London's East End through song and storytelling. In her project she developed a range of materials, instrumental skills and knowledge for a music outreach project involving multi ethnic pupils from Ben Johnson Primary school and the Stepney Jewish Day Care Centre.
The result was a wonderful concert during the Spitalfields Festival of Bangladeshi children performing Yiddish songs. vivienellis[at]yahoo.co.uk
Ed Emery: The sharing of song and musical influences between Jews, Christians and Arabs in the period c.1050-1350
Ed’s project will show the mutual interweaving of poetry, music, contents motif and instrumentation circulating between Jews, Arabs and Christians in the Mediterranean basin in the early middle ages. He will learn Hebrew and travel to Israel and the Mahgreb and he will show the interaction and mutual development of poetry amongst these three cultures that were prevalent at the time. ed.emery[at]britishlibrary.net
Gillian Epstein: Mediaeval Moses for the Millennium
Gillian will oversee the creation and public performance of a new ecumenical choral work with a libretto based on the Old Testament. She has commissioned the composer Julian Dawes to set the seven mediaeval poems, The Death of Moses, for four part voices and Chamber Ensemble, Her choir the Alyth Choral Society will learn and perform it in a public concert in March 2003. Gilepstein[at]aol.com
Michael Etherton: Emperor of Atlantis
Michael will create a collaboration between professional artists and senior school children on a major opera, banned by the Nazis, The Emperor of Atlantis. The project will culminate in a special performance for schools at the Bridewell Theatre in London on or close to Holocaust commemoration day on 27 January 2003. michaeletherton[at]hotmail.com
David Fruehwirth: Three lecture recitals of 'Thwarted Voices, Music from between the wars suppressed by the Third Reich and other countries
Bringing back to the international music establishment, by performance, education, recording and publication, the fantastic chamber music of Jewish composers of the first half of the 20th Century, who because of the circumstances at the time, were not able to achieve the success they deserve.
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Michael Gerber: Jews and Jazz
Mike will research the considerable part that Jews have played in Jazz history - as musicians, composers, impresarios, record label owners, agents, critics, educators and he will consider how Klezmer connects with this phenomenon. He will travel to America for interview and memorabilia and give three lectures and write an article for the JMI library. mikegerber53[at]hotmail.com
Myrna Glass: The Barry Weinberg series - 4 lecture workshops for young and old
The establishment of 4 exciting and participatory lecture-workshops on four different types of Jewish music to give children and adults joy in Jewish music
Roberto Haddon: Dancing into the new millennium
Roberto will create a teachers' pack for Israel folk dance, and hold a one-day training session in Wembley for British teachers and a workshop for dancers. His handbook for teachers will contain a reference guide, "Teachers' Tips", based on his experience.
Ruti Halvani: From Jewish Folk to Art song: New repertoire, new perceptions.
Exploring repertoire of Jewish Art songs from the 19th-21st centuries, based on Jewish Folk music and folk style and investigate the way in which Jewish folk elements are transformed into their new Westernised concert contexts
Meg Hamilton: Classical-Klezmer dialogues
Meg, a classically trained violinist, will develop skills in the performance of traditional Ashkenasi music on the violin, She will commission two new works by young Jewish composers combining Klezmer and classical idioms, for workshops and performance. megrosaleen[at]hotmail.com
Clive Hyman: A Rich Experience for Jewish Choristers
Clive brought the incomparable Yiddish choral master Zalman Mlotek from the USA to do masterclasses with four UK based choirs. He worked with each choir separately and as a culmination of the course presented a concert of work in progress in London, where all the choirs participated. They all gained great knowledge and inspiration.
Minouche Kaftel: Jewish Music as a direct link to G-d and to each other.
Singer Minouche is creating a compilation CD and book followed by a live performance to demonstrate how Jewish Music can be used as a spiritual vehicle and a unifying tool in the community.
Bryan Kesselman: Maccabee
Bryan's ambition is to compose, create and perform a new original piece of choral music for youth choir with soloists and professional instrumental ensemble, based on the events surrounding the origins of Chanukah. The music will be in an accessible style for both performers and audience. It will involve young people (11-18 yrs) as performers, increasing their musical and vocal abilities, as well as giving a performance opportunity. The performance will take place on 17 March 2003 at the Elliott Hall, Harrow Arts Centre, Uxbridge Road, Hatch End HA5 4EA bryan_kesselman[at]yahoo.co.uk
Rohan Kriwaczek
Rohan will compose an Indo-Semitic Classical collaboration and perform new repertoire which marries together musical elements from two immigrant cultures, Indian and Jewish, in a classical concert hall context.
These new pieces will be incorporated into a programme which also includes
Jewish violin music, traditional South Indian music, and some Jewish Salon
pieces. This programme will be performed in areas with multicultural communities
including Jewish and Asian populations, and one concert in a very English
town outside London, not familiar with either Asian or Jewish music or
culture.
rohan[at]kriwaczek.freeserve.co.uk
www.rohan-k.co.uk
Vivi Lachs: Klezmer For All
Vivi attended Klezfest 2001 with her musicians to study Eastern European Jewish dance, Yiddish song and Klezmer music in depth and in its context. She then arranged dance workshops for young people and a concert with dance instruction for adults in order to pass her new skills on to others. She has completed her project but continues to attend further classes in Yiddish and dance to widen her knowledge and she is now called upon to run workshops and Yiddish dance classes.
Helena Lieber: From Ashes towards Teshuvah (Spiritual return)
Helena's aim is to show through her own experiences how universal spiritual truth is relevant to all faiths, using the music of many cultures such as Rastafarian reggae, Jewish chants and instrumental Klezmer.
Sara Manasseh: Shbahoth: Songs of Praise in the Jewish Babylonian Tradition
A book, with accompanying CD, presenting for the first time the text and music notation for twenty songs in the Iraqi Jewish oral tradition, and a description of their historical, social and musical context.
James Marcovitch: Klezmer Raps
To bring together young people at risk of drug-related harm with Klezmer and Hip-Hop musicians to compose, perform and make a CD of Klezmer and Hip-Hop Music.
Ivan Margolis: To improve the musical quality through working with professional musicians and by producing a CD.
To improve the quality of singing of the Cardiff United Synagogue Choir by close collaboration with professional musicians and ultimately by producing a CD reflecting the unique musical style of the Choir, which incorporates influences of Jewish, Welsh and African cultures. To promote their music to the wider Jewish and Welsh, non-Jewish audiences. He is looking to develop the Choir in a way that is both stimulating and inspirational.
Malcolm Miller: Piano Repertoire by Composers in Israel
The music of Israeli composers is gradually becoming recognized across the world for its significant aesthetic value but is still largely unfamiliar to the European public. It is the aim of this project to introduce and provide fresh insight into the wealth of Israeli piano music in articles for British musical journals, with a special focus on pedagogic music for elementary and intermediate levels as well as concert fare. Malcolm’s plan is to grade the Israeli repertoire for the piano in levels for pianists, teachers, students and music lovers. This will result in a series of publications and a lecture-recital to enhance appreciation of the music.
William Millis: Nigun Notes- Music for the Soul
William will delve into the ancient prayer chants of the Hebrew bible (where each word or phrase has a special tune), the slow rapturous melodic 'dveykus' and the wordless spiritual songs 'nigunim' of the Chasidic sect of Jews. He aims to study the ancient cantillation of the Hebrew Bible, and Chassidic songs without words, and to work with a group of musicians to develop an instrumental repertoire to bring this deeply spiritual music up to date and perform it for a new and diverse audience of today. williamillis[at]hotmail.com
Lea Misan: ID Works—Northwood children explore their identity through music and drama
A project to help children in the local community increase their Jewish knowledge and confidence by creating a fun introduction to understanding aspects of Judaism using music, drama, role play and storytelling.
This exciting programme will be aimed at children aged 7-9 who will explore their cultural identity through music and drama in an extra-curricular setting. They will be encouraged to do their own research within their own families and to develop key ideas of Jewish learning and heritage, covering 4 main themes including Tefilla (prayer) History, Jewish Values and The Sabbath. lea[at]heartskills.fsnet.co.uk
Louise Naftalin: Children's Classical Music Workshops
Louise organised three classical music workshops with teacher's packs for Jewish and non-Jewish primary school children using works with Jewish themes from Biblical times to the present day. The charismatic children's music leader Atarah ben Tovim and three musicians led the workshops on aspects of Jewish music and other content. louisenaftalin[at]talk21.com
Julia Pascal: The Golem
Julia will commission special music for The Golem, a new play for 5-8 year olds set in ancient Prague. Kyla Greenbaum is the composer aged 80 and registered disabled.
As this is a work for very young children, it will use diverse techniques to entertain and educate them on the dangers of discrimination and racism and music and song will be used to engage the children. The project is a completely new venture of Jewish theatre for a new young audience of all cultural identities. The Award offers an important opportunity to a gifted composer to write a special work for children. pascal7038[at]aol.com
Tom Payne: Nifty - a Novel on the Life of Naftule Brandwein
Tom is busy writing a novel, set in contemporary London and in New York in the first half of the twentieth century about a Gentile man, obsessed with Naftule Brandwein, an exponent of Klezmer clarinet, famous worldwide.
Tom who is a Gentile man, obsessed with Naftule Brandwein, will travel to USA to interview people who knew and worked with Naftule Brandwein. There will be three presentations of the project with readings and performance.
Alexander Rehding: Music and Racial Politics
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Experts in musicology and other academic fields will come together to discuss issues of music and racial politics, particularly in the context of the idea of degeneration, as it became a powerful scientific-political concept in the decades between 1870 and the second World War – and possibly beyond. In a number of talks and discussions focusing on different instances of “musical degeneracy” held in Emmanuel College Cambridge Alexander hopes to further the understanding of the links between music and racial politics.
Gregori Schechter : Creating a Web-based Encyclopaedia of Jewish Music
Gregori has developed and created an extensive searchable relational
database for printed and recorded Jewish music on the web. His system
has been developed in consultation with the British Library National Sound
Archive. This will form the basis of an encyclopaedia on the web with
space for details of the composers and artists and the communities from
which it comes. You can see a prototype with ample data at
www.dedocsoft.com/keynote
greg[at]dedocsoft.com
Judith Silver: Yiddish: Alive and well in the 21st Century
Judith prepared a programme of songs in Yiddish, raising awareness and appreciation of the language and heritage both within and outside the Jewish community. This involved language research, language study and ended with a concert performance, workshops with groups and a video recording. She continues to run workshops regularly in the London area and is keen to travel to groups around the community by invitation. info[at]judithsilver.com
Mark Silverman: Starcrossed
Inspired by the perennial issue of mixed-faith relationships, Starcrossed explores the key issues arising from this particular aspect of assimilation within British Jewry. Through word and song, Mark’s fictional composition, which takes the form of a two-act stage musical for which Mark has written the book, score and lyrics, seeks to provide an engaging account of a fictional, inter-faith relationship in 1960s London between a Jewish girl and her non-Jewish boyfriend. Whilst written against a backdrop of ever-increasing assimilation within British Jewry, the work is intended to appeal and reach out to any community faced with similar conflicts between its own traditions and life within a wider, secular society. markasilverman[at]hotmail.com
Malcolm Singer: Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the Third Reich
Malcolm will work with members of the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra to develop this special repertoire, neglected because of Nazi prejudice. They will give a workshop and a concert and make a recording of this special repertoire in order to bring this music to a wider audience. The young students will study the lives of the composers who were banned or exiled or murdered before and during the Holocaust. They will express their feelings about this music. mjsinger[at]talk21.com
Chani Smith: Learn the Cantillation of the Hebrew Bible
To produce a CD and teaching notes so that Torah cantillation could be learnt from scratch. To give people the knowledge and confidence to participate in religious services and bring people closer to the Torah.
Sophie Solomon: Hip Hop Khasene
In the Hip Hop Khasene, Sophie will be working with outstanding musicians in a collaborative music project to compose, record and present a traditional Klezmer wedding suite in the ultra modern dancefloor hip hop idiom. The project is collaboration between Sophie, DJ So-Called and special guest clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer. It features some of the most exciting artists in the contemporary Klezmer scene including Michael Alpert, Zev Feldman, Susan Hoffman-Watts and Frank London. The goal is then to stage a live hip hop khasene, complete with khusen and kale… sophie.solomon[at]hotmail.com
Agnes Grunwald Spier, Ian Stern, Alan Zinober, and Gloria Townsend: Introducing Klezmer to communities in South Yorkshire
This group project aims to introduce instrumental and dance aspects of Klezmer through workshops and masterclasses to the people of Sheffield, Rotherham, Chesterfield and their environs, to increase awareness of its cultural and religious origins and to help people of all ages play Klezmer to a high standard. This also includes setting up a Website to promote the events.
Camilla Stagg : Composers Exiled to Britain 1933-1945
Camilla has conducted an in depth study of the composers of German Jewish origin who were exiled to Britain during the Second World War. This project aims to examine the effects of exile on some of those 70 composers and study how and why their composition changed, and why in some cases composition stopped altogether; how these composers were integrated into British musical society and their contribution to British academia, and if they experienced any difficulties because of their German or Jewish origins. Camilla interviewed those who are still living and conducted research at the National Sound Archive and the BBC for any existing recordings of works of, and interviews with, the composers. Camilla hopes that the project will provide a study of musical life in Britain at the time, and will bring the work of these composers to the attention of the musical public. millstagg[at]talk21.com
Jonathan Stein: Bristol Klezmer Project
The project is an initiative to stimulate interest and participation in Jewish music in and around Bristol. Focusing on playing Klezmer initially the project can expand to include dancing and singing.
Louise Taylor: Klezmer Classes for Music Students
Louise had the possibility to establish a Klezmer ensemble of eight students who have had the opportunity of studying at KlezFest and researching and exploring the performance style of pre and early twentieth century Eastern European Klezmer music.
Louise took Klezmer into places of higher education such as Kings College and SOAS to raise the academic profile of the genre in terms of performance and research. The performances introduced audiences to the historical, sociological and evolutionary aspects of the genre, the sound world of the 19th Century Klezmorim in terms of repertoire and instrumental techniques. These performances were videoed and copies will be resented to the JMI Library. An education resource pack will supplement the performances, guiding those who are new to Klezmer to the resources available with an extensive discography, bibliography and short articles. louisetaylor60[at]hotmail.com
Basil Thompson: City Streets Klezmer Band
Basil’s project was to create a group of ten musicians recruited during three workshops he ran in community centres in Exeter. They trained together and then formed a Klezmer street band based in Exeter. They performed Klezmer music all over the South West of England during last Summer and in music festivals in Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Totnes etc. 1world[at]clara.co.uk
Michelene Wandor: Bringing the music of Salamone Rossi to light for a new generation
To stimulate cross-cultural understanding of the sacred and secular music of Salamone Rossi, a Jewish contemporary of Monteverdi, through three workshops, one performance and supported by a CD. Michelene, a musician and teacher has chosen to research, recreate, explain, and teach the music of Salamone Rossi, a little known Jewish composer and musician who lived and worked in Mantua at the turn of the 17th century. Rossi represented a unique meeting point between Jewish music - the setting of Hebrew texts for synagogal worship - and Italian instrumental music. The project will involve extensive research into unpublished music by Rossi, as well as his involvement in Mantua's theatre life and his role in the Jewish community.
Rebekka Weddell
They (try to) tell us we're too old to combine my professional experience both as Music Animateur and as a composer, within the context of working with the Elderly at Jewish Care Daycentres across diverse London communities.
Della Wexler: The Passover Music of the Jews of Bombay
This project involves a visit to India to record, transcribe and analyse the Passover music of Indian Jews living in Bombay, looking particularly for Indian music influences. Della wants to see in what way the musical traditions of the Indian Jews, a Sephardi community might differ form those she is more familiar with in England where she is part of an Ashkenazi Jewish community. The Jewish community in India, over 6,000 Jews is perhaps the only Jewish community world-wide who never suffered any discriminations or atrocities.
Christopher Wintle: Hans Keller, Music and Psychology,
From Vienna to London 1939-52
Much has been written recently about the contribution of the 'Hitler émigrés' to British culture since the late 1930s, notably by Daniel Snowman. One of the most prominent of these émigrés was the witty, acerbic, and controversial musician, writer, and broadcaster Hans Keller (1919-85), whose papers are now held in the Cambridge University Library. His mainly unpublished early writings show the care with which he created a critical position that was unique in Britain: his work drew upon the psychological and sociological currents of the day and reflected the diversity of his Viennese background. The writings have now been edited as part of the JMI Millennium Awards project into a large book comprising sections on (i) psychology, (ii) music and psychology, (iii) life, art, and psychology, all prefaced by a short section on the earliest writings in German.
Benjamin Wolf: L'Chaim for Piano and orchestra
The aim of the project is to produce a completed piece of music which adapts Jewish melody and musical motifs to a fairly traditional concerto form. The melodies are to be particularly closely modelled on themes from the Ashkenazi liturgy. The project is designed to show how Jewish music from the liturgical tradition can be integrated into contemporary composition, and thereby encourage awareness of Jewish melody and musical motifs amongst both musicians and the musical community at large. Thus, in addition to bringing specific benefits to one community, the project will increase awareness of Jewish music in the wider musical community and encourage others to integrate it into their activities. bjwolf_uk[at]yahoo.co.uk
Sandra Yaron: Mischa Spoliansky and Werner Richard Heymann — Cabaret: from Berlin to London- Their lives and music
Sandra will research "Kabarett" as experienced by Mischa Spoliansky and Werner Richard Heymann. She will investigate the nature and style of their songs. She will research the performance practice of today's Kabarett scene in Berlin and find scores of rarely performed songs of these composers. She will interview their daughters, Spoli Mills in London and Kiki Heymann in Berlin. The research will result in a CD presentation incorporating interviews of both their daughters and others, a cabaret singing workshop and a concert.
last modified: 20 April 2004
- Nik Ammar
- Helen Beer
- Leo Bryant
- Josephine Burton
- Sue Cooper & Ros Hawley
- Ilana Cravitz
- Michael Gerber
- Myrna Glass
- Meg Hamilton
- Rohan Kriwaczek
- Vivi Lachs
- James Marcovitch
- Tom Payne
- Gregori Schechter
- Sophie Solomon
- Agnes Grunwald Spier, Ian Stern, Alan Zinober & Gloria Townsend
- Jonathan Stein
- Louise Taylor
- Basil Thompson
- Henry Atterbury
- Michael Bochman
- Julie Brown
- Melanie Challenger
- Ed Emery
- Gillian Epstein
- Michael Etherton
- Meg Hamilton
- Ruti Halvani
- Bryan Kesselman
- Rohan Kriwaczek
- Malcolm Miller
- Louise Naftalin
- Julia Pascal
- Michelene Wandor
- Christopher Wintle
- Benjamin Wolf
- Henry Atterbury
- David Fruewirth
- Myrna Glass
- Alexander Rehding
- Malcolm Singer
- Camilla Stagg
- Christopher Wintle
- Viv Bellos
- Robert Berman
- Minouche Kaftel
- Helena Lieber
- Sara Manasseh
- Ivan Margolis
- William Millis
- Lea Misan
- Chani Smith
- Della Wexler
