December 21, 2016
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | Co-sponsored by American Society for Jewish Music

This program was a benefit for the Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, violinist and champion of Jewish music Yuval Waldman plays a recital-lecture of works by Jewish composers which he commissioned or gave the premiere performance of. All of the living composers were in attendance to introduce their works and celebrate this occasion at YIVO.

Thoughts and Feelings:

From 1924 to 1927 Stutschewsky was the cellist of the Kolisch Quartet (then called the New Vienna String Quartet), which grew out of Arnold Schoenberg’s “Society for Private Musical Performances” and was heavily influenced by Schoenberg’s musical style and teaching. Though Stutschewsky spent most of his life writing and championing Jewish music influenced by Klezmer and other Jewish musical traditions, in this composition he returns to the influence of Schoenberg writing a dense and dissonant musical meditation. Stutschewsky wrote this work in 1969 and dedicated it to Yuval Waldman after they met each other shortly thereafter.

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