Saturday, Nov 4th , 2023
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Tickets from $15
Brian Heck
Fisher Center at Bard
Fisher Center at Bard College\r\n60 Manor Avenue
Annandale on Hudson, NY 12504
(845) 758-7900
Music Director Leon Botstein leads The Orchestra Now (TON) in a concert titled "Exodus: Jewish Composers in Exile." Performances will be held on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. at the Fisher Center at Bard College. The program offers seldom-heard works by Jewish composers Alexandre Tansman, Josef Tal, Walter Kaufmann and Marcel Rubin — including two U.S. premieres — written while in exile from their homelands during World War II.
To purchase tickets, click here, call the Fisher Center box office at (845) 758-7900, or visit the Fisher Center box office in the lobby of Sosnoff Theater on the Bard College campus.
Alexandre Tansman was a multi-genre composer as well as a virtuoso pianist. He fled Europe for the United States in 1941, and his rhythmic "Polish Rhapsody" — inspired by the invasion of Poland and dedicated "to the defenders of Warsaw" — was premiered in St. Louis that same year. The U.S. premiere of prolific composer Josef Tal’s "Exodus" is based on the Passover Haggadah and was debuted by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra during the first days of that country’s War of Independence. He had emigrated to Jerusalem before the war in 1942. The performance features Israeli/British/American baritone Noam Heinz, who performed the title role in the world premiere of the opera "Theodor," about Israel’s founding father Theodor Herzl, with the Israel Opera.
The Orchestra offers another U.S. premiere with "Indian Symphony" by Walter Kaufmann, one of many Jewish refugees who found a haven in India, where he lived for 14 years and wrote his symphony while exiled in Bombay. Viennese composer Marcel Rubin fled first to France and then to Mexico, where he wrote his melancholy "Symphony No. 4, Dies irae," as a reflection of his experiences during the Second World War. Among his many honors are a Grand Austrian State Prize for Music and a Gold Medal of Vienna.
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